As the spring season winds down, here are just a few highlights from the past month’s many award ceremonies, receptions, parties, and launches.

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Conrad Black signs a copy of his new book, <i>Flight of the Eagle</i>, for Margaret Atwood, May 22 at Ben McNally Books in Toronto

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Author Robert Rotenberg sets up a shot in the final rounds of Scotiabank Pongapalooza in support of First Book Canada, May 14 in Toronto

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Crowds blur at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 11-12

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National Business Book Award winner Chrystia Freeland (centre) poses with prize sponsors Gino Scapillati from PwC Canada and Barbara Dirks from BMO Financial Group, May 28 at Toronto's Ritz-Carlton

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Winner of this year's RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Laura Clarke (left) poses with finalists Suzanna Showler and Laura Matwichuk, May 28 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto

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Nova Scotia author Nicole Dixon joins the FictionKnitsa reading series, May 31 at Winnipeg's McNally Robinson Booksellers

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B.C. author Stella Harvey gets into the spirit at the Beehive Wool Shop in Victoria, the first stop on the cross-country FictionKnitsa reading series

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Alice Munro is joined by (left to right) author Terry Fallis, Canadian Booksellers Association president Mark Lefebvre, and her editor Douglas Gibson, to receive the CBA's Lifetime Achievement Award, June 3 at the Libris Awards in Toronto

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Scotiabank Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association, June 3 at the Libris Awards in Toronto

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Author Michael Winter and Anne McDermid & Associates agent Martha Webb at Hamish Hamilton Canada's spring cocktail party, May 22 at the Soho House in Toronto

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Joseph and Amanda Boyden at Hamish Hamilton Canada's spring cocktail party, May 22 at the Soho House in Toronto

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George Melnyk accepts the Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Alberta Book Awards Gala, May 25 in Edmonton

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Illustrator Fiona Smyth (left) and author Cory Silverberg (right) sign copies of their new kids' book, <I>What Makes a Baby</I> (Seven Stories Press), June 9 at Toronto's Academy of the Impossible

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