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Wanda John-Kehewin: Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead
With inspiring defiance, John-Kehewin plays with form, space, and language, demonstrating which magics cannot be suppressed.
Carleigh Baker: Bad Endings
Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward.
Kara Stanley: A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music
Kara Stanley tells the compelling story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury and the role of music, science, and love in recovery.
Kara Stanley: Ghost Warning
New novel by breakout author, Kara Stanley, navigates Toronto’s underbelly of urban grime, crime, and sublime.
Loghan Paylor: The Cure for Drowning
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways.
Frances Koncan: Space Girl
Lyra is the first person born on the moon, and the number one social media influencer in the galaxy. But her 21st birthday is off to a rocky start – she suddenly discovers that she’s been knocked down to the number two position!
Tanya Kyi: Bompa’s Insect Expedition
This exploration of the extraordinary world of bugs is inspired by David Suzuki’s adventures with his own grandkids.
Nancy Lee: Sharp Notions
In this anthology, writers and artists from different backgrounds contemplate their complex relationships with the fibre arts.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich: Transversions: Archives, Testimony, & Reimagination
Transversions contains works of poetry, prose, visual art, and deep hybridity that innovate or question authority.
Frances Koncan: Women of the Fur Trade
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.