1.
Series:
The Moon King
Paperback
Cara Kansala
9781550818185
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Feb 14, 2020
***BEST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS 2020, PICTURE BOOKS*** When the magical Moon King tips over the night, it spills across the land and sea, and he seeks the help of animals big and small to collect the stars and return them to the sky. In this beautifully illustrated bedtime story, Cara Kansala weaves an enchanting fable destined to become a children’s classic—the perfect way to welcome the night and celebrate the wonder of dreams.
2.
Series: Land Sea & Time
Lost in Newfoundland
Hardcover
Michael Winsor
9781550818215
$29.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jun 15, 2020
Lost in Newfoundland is an artistic compendium of Newfoundland’s visual wonders—its seascapes, landscapes, cityscapes, and natural inhabitants. This is a fine-art homage to an island where, as Michael Winsor himself suggests, “Every cove, inlet, tickle, island, bay, peninsula, point, or arm is more beautiful than the next.”
3.
Series:
Some People's Children
Paperback
Bridget Canning
9781550818123
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2020
***BRONZE, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! FICTION AWARD ? ***49TH SHELF EDITOR'S PICK*** ***BMO WINTERSET AWARD LONGLIST** Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed. Weaving through a maze of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel abo...
+ Read More
4.
Series:
Narrow Cradle
Paperback
Wade Kearley
9781550818154
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 29, 2020
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST!' POETRY AWARD** In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern poetic forms, these poems find in the transience of life a new kind of freedom, a rebirth independent of personal circumstance. In crisp, direct, and vivid language—swerving between sonnet, villanelle, and sestina—Kearley offers a compelling collection by turns vicious, lost, ragged, ...
+ Read More
5.
Series:
Melt
Paperback
Heidi Wicks
9781550818246
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 08, 2020
***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** Jess is a sensitive creature of habit. Cait is her passionate and impulsive best friend. And in Melt, Heidi Wicks follows the lives of these characters from their teenage years into their late thirties—through drifting desires, fake tans, economic turbulence, kids, grief, job loss, love loss, and personal renewal. Shifting radiantly between the late nineties and the present day, Melt explores the life-sustaining anatomy of friendship and the complex relationships we have with our pasts.