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.
Jill Yonit Goldberg: The Fire Still Burns
“My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to be an Elder.” The Fire Still Burns is an unflinching look at the horrors of a childhood in the Indian Residential School system and the long-term effects on survivors. It illustrates the healing power of one’s culture and the resilience that allows an individual to rebuild a life and a future.
Conor Kerr: Old Gods
Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. In Old Gods, Kerr defies colonialism and situates his reader in the Métis mindset: the old gods of the land are alive within the rivers, the birds, the hills and the prairies that surround us, and they’ll always be here.
Ellen Keith: The Dutch Orphan
From the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about a woman who offers shelter to a Jewish baby, and her sister, who must choose between family loyalty and her own safety.
Allison Finley: Below the Surface
Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure. Even if he mostly just finds empty cans and fishing lures. But when he discovers a pocket watch in the waters beneath a bridge that’s said to be haunted, he is sure his luck has changed.
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.
Jessica Johns: Bad Cree
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide. Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. An ode to female relations and the strength found in kinship.
Jacqueline Firkins: Marlowe Banks, Redesigned
In this romantic women’s fiction about second chances, a young woman escapes to LA to start fresh after a failed career and broken engagement.
Cathalynn Labonte-Smith: Rescue Me
Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations.