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Josiah Neufeld: The Temple at the End of the Universe
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
Adam Meisner: For Both Resting and Breeding
It is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an abandoned millennium-era house, they hatch a plan to turn the building into a museum that re-enacts life in the year 2000.
Buffy Cram: Once Upon An Effing Time
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.
Curtis LeBlanc: Sunsetter
A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely heroes and unexpected villains.
Emi Sasagawa: Atomweight
When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable ‘good girl’ discovers she’s a fighter. But who is she trying to beat? This is a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures, traditions and values that also explores issues of sexual identity and violence.
Dominique Bernier-Cormier: Entre Rive and Shore
According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress.
Cathalynn Labonte-Smith: Rescue Me
Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations.
Meredith Hambrock: Other People’s Secrets
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a living hell, for fans of Alissa Nutting and Amy Engel.
Billy-Ray Belcourt: A Minor Chorus
A Minor Chorus is a novel that tracks a queer Indigenous doctoral student’s attempt to write a novel instead of a dissertation.
Susan Musgrave: Exculpatory Lilies
Throughout this collection, Musgrave’s alertness to even the most desolate places makes her personal sorrows astonishingly potent; and her scrutiny of language, and emotions, makes shot silk out of sackcloth and ashes.