Will the Leafs win the Stanley Cup this year? They haven't won it since 1967. Can Toronto finally bring Lord Stanley back to College Street? (Via Scotiabank Arena).

We wanted to prepare you for one of the best non-fiction books you could come across this season. Strap yourselves in — we’re going to take off now!

Airborne: Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike is the story of a father who passed on his love of flying to his son, and after his death at age 66, Jonathan Rotondo dove into trying to find the plane his father loved. This tribute to Antonio Rotondo is written in three sections, including family history, Jonathan’s own experience in air cadets, and the trek to recover Antonio’s plane, Foxtrot Alpha Mike.

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Debra Komar is an award-winning author, who is in the process of releasing a new book in March from Dundurn Press called The Court of Better Fiction: Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty. Her previous books, all published with Goose Lane Editions, include The Ballad of Jacob Peck, The Bastard of Fort Stikine, The Lynching of Peter Wheeler, and Black River Road.

We caught up with her to discuss her focus on true crime and where does she find her ideas? Read on for more of this exclusive interview.

"I'm basically a hermit who is on a tiny island in the middle of the sea, so my draft-sharing is quite limited. For the last few years, I've written almost exclusively novels, and I do think it's a bit of a mistake to show people uncompleted draft and put too much stock in what they have to say about something when they haven't seen the whole thing."

Jan Wong, author of Apron Strings

Shortlisted for the twenty-first annual Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narratives category is award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jan Wong’s Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China.