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Romantasy tome to kick off fall literary launches

Fall literary launches are heating up as book events return after a quiet summer. Winnipeg's first annual romance fantasy event will feature bestselling author Nisha J. Tuli, who will release her follow-up to Storm Breaker, Storm Caller, at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park location. Winnipeg children's author Carol Matas has been shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, with her book A Storm Unleashed chronicling the life of a half-Jewish girl in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power.

The 2026 Kirkus Prize finalists have been announced, with six shortlisted titles in each of the fiction, non-fiction, and young readers' literature categories.

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