Léa Taranto: A Drop in the Ocean
An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.
Thommy Hutson: Never Sleep Again The Elm Street Legacy
Including rare and never-before-seen material, this extensively researched, comprehensive look back is the definitive account of the film that began what many have called the best, most frightening, and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history.
Minelle Mahtani: May It Have a Happy Ending
A searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice.
Tonya Lailey: Farm: Lot 23
Tonya Lailey’s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agriculture.
Catherine Young: Black Diamonds
A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.
Wren Handman: A Midnight So Deadly
A Midnight So Deadly is a cozy thriller about the unexplored realms within each of us.
Jill Goldberg: After We Drowned
After We Drowned is a tragic coming-of-age story with a stealthy, yet kick-ass, feminist subplot set in the swampy heart of Cajun America.
Richard Van Camp: Beast
Returning to a favourite Northwest Territories setting, Richard Van Camp brings his exuberant style to a captivating teen novel that blends the supernatural with 1980s-era nostalgia to reflect on friendship, tradition and forgiveness.
Robert Colman: Ghost Work
Ghost Work is a suite of poems that explores a son’s gradual loss of his father from dementia.
Jane Baird Warren: How to Be a Goldfish
How to Be a Goldfish is a compelling, heartfelt, humorous read about acceptance and understanding, and will provide a gentle introduction to discussions about alternative families, homosexuality, feminism, forced adoptions and social justice.