Karim Alrawi: Book of Sands
A powerful, lyrical novel of the endurance of love, set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal repression of a totalitarian regime.
Joe Wiebe: Craft Beer Revolution
With profiles of BC’s finest craft breweries, as well as tap lists, bottle shops and an insider’s look at the people behind the kegs and casks, Craft Beer Revolution, 2nd Edition explains how to best experience the beer phenomenon that’s sweeping the province.
Brandy Lien Worrall: What Doesn’t Kill Us
The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and survival during and after the Vietnam War. The book crosses borders, from rural, Amish-country Pennsylvania, where Brandy had grown up, to Vancouver, where she lived with her parents, husband, and two young children while enduring aggressive chemotherapy, radiation, and a double mastectomy.
Gillian Wigmore: orient
Composed mainly of three long poems—an extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, the lament of a big-souled cowboy poet looking up from rock bottom, and a historical envisioning of an intimate relationship between a pioneer and a powerful crone—orient leaps, sings, burrows down, and orients the reader within its rich ecosystem.
Chelsea Rooney: Pedal
Sometimes shocking in its candour, yet charmed with enigmatic characters, Pedal explores how we are shaped by accidents of timing—trauma and sex, brain chemistry and the landscape of our country—and challenges beliefs we hold dear about the nature of pedophilia, the essence of innocence and the idea that the past is something one runs from.
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg: Glass Beads
Glass Beads is Lynxleg’s first collection of poetry published by Black Moss Press. It is the manifestation of Lynxleg’s bravery through rich poetry that expresses history, language, culture and a journey to the self.
Kathryn Para: Lucky
Lucky explores essential questions about war photography, the price paid by journalists and the moral dilemmas of love and war.
Ann Ireland: The Blue Guitar
More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle-aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent.