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Series: Something's Burning Paperback Janet Trull 9781988168685 $24.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2022

Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something's Burning. The twenty-first century speeds ahead with fast-changing ideas about culture and identity, and a new choir of voices are telling their long-suppressed stories. Outdated belief systems are challenged. Society norms and hierarchies crumble. But fresh ideas cause tension between generations, sexes, races and neighbours. The populatio... + Read More
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Series: The Loyal Daughter Paperback Nancy Lam 9781988168654 $24.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates to an isolated Northern Ontario city and finally settling in Toronto. When she finds herself stuck in a small apartment above a clothing store, with four kids, her mother, two siblings, and a husband who is never home, the promise of a new beginning fades. Filled with hear... + Read More
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Series: Pistachios in My Pocket Paperback Sareh Farmand 9781988168692 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2022

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to th... + Read More
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Series: Almost Visible 1st edition Paperback Michelle Sinclair 9781771862943 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going through his photos and letters and "borrowing" his journal. Though fact and fiction are blurred, they reveal a man shaken by political polarization and repression in his Latin-American homeland. Tess learns about a young, passionate man in the 1970s forced to reconcile his love for a milita... + Read More
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Series: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle Police Abolition in Canada Paperback Shiri Pasternak 9781771135924 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 04, 2022

Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not keep us safe. This edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world—on... + Read More
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Series: Where the Crooked Lighthouse Shines Paperback Joshua Goudie 9781550819434 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 13 Sep 01, 2022

A dark, fantastical collection of narrative poems that draw on unique elements of Newfoundland and Labrador culture and folklore. Intended to be read aloud, Where the Crooked Lighthouse Shines draws on Newfoundland and Labrador’s long tradition of lyric storytelling, making whimsical use of rhyme and rhythm. Young readers will enjoy the humour in the verse while seeing how problems (even the dark and scary ones) can be resolved without losing one’s sense of playfulness and wonder.
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Series: The Tales of Dwipa Paperback Prajwala Dixit 9781550819274 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 08, 2022

Through a framework of traditional tales, fantastic creatures struggle with issues of marginalization, opening discussion for parents and children in an accessible form. The Tales Of Dwipa is a collection of short stories adapted from the Panchatantra, a collection of simple, engaging, and interrelated animal tales penned by Pandit Vishnu Sharma in the hopes of awakening the dim intelligence of a powerful Indian king’s idle sons. The ancient stories of the Panchatantra still find meaning in today’s world despite originating in India before 300 ... + Read More
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Series: My Indian My Indian Electronic book text, EPUB Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe 9781550818796 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 14 May 31, 2021

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Nei... + Read More
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Series: Why I Was Late Paperback Charlie Petch 9781771315579 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a p... + Read More
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Series: Disturbing the Buddha Paperback Barry Dempster 9781771314336 $20.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 15, 2016

A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times. Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as it grapples with love, loss, loneliness and simple lack of luck — the "three-leaf clovers" so much more plentiful than the four. Dempster's wit and playful metaphoric turns let us take for granted the courage needed to admit to life's ongoing intensities, disruptions, and indignities... + Read More
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Series: How She Read Paperback Chantal Gibson 9781987915969 $20.00 POETRY Jan 10, 2019

How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Chantal Gibson’s sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps. A mediation on motherhood and daughterhood, belonging, loss and recovery,... + Read More
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Series: Hockey with Dad Hardcover Willie Sellars 9781987915808 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 10, 2021

The highly anticipated follow-up to Willie Sellars' award-winning Dipnetting with Dad, in Hockey with Dad, Sellars continues the adventures of Little Brother as he grows and learns about the importance of hockey to his Secwépemc community.She shoots, she scores! Big Sister’s hockey team has worked hard toward the most important game of the season. When the team goalie gets injured, Little Brother excitedly steps onto the ice to play in the Championship game. He always wanted to be part of the lineup, where Big Sister is the ace forward. The clo... + Read More
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Series: Tower 25 Paperback PJ Patten 9781927742174 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2020

TOWER 25 is a 128 page graphic memoir about homelessness, addiction, trauma and recovery. Written and illustrated by PJ Patten, Tower 25 follows his journey through homelessness, from living in a nice condo to sleeping in bathrooms at the beach after losing everything to meth addiction. This project engages with themes of addiction, trauma, responsibility and ultimately healing. It offers a first hand account of the struggles of being homeless and the challenges one is faced with trying to get off the streets.
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Series: Through the Labyrinths of the Mind Paperback Bevan Thomas 9781927742204 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 01, 2022

All over the world, millions of people experience a wide range of mental health issues - depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and more. Sadly, their struggles are often ignored and misunderstood, even mocked. Through the Labyrinths of the Mind is a graphic novel anthology from Cloudscape Comics that gives these issues a voice, presenting 11 stories about mental health from a wide range of comic creators.
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Series: Witching Hours, The Paperback Hannah Myers 9781927742143 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2019

The Witching Hours is an anthology of comics about magic- al women written, illustrated and edited by women and non-binary persons. It explores the range of what a witch can be and celebrates powerful and magical women. The book features 11 stories ranging from fantasy to horror to slice of life; including a history of the medieval witch trials, a folk story from the Philippines, and even a recipe for herb strawberry bread.
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Series: Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Paperback Denise Bolduc 9781552454152 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 13, 2021

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARDRich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and presentBeneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day.With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, ... + Read More
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Series: The Far Shore Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of JETT Paperback Adam Hammond 9781552454206 $21.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Nov 16, 2021

The genius and artistry behind Superbrothers and the making of an indie video game, from inception to its highly anticipated launch. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery was released in 2011 at the forefront of an exciting era of “indie games” – with the aesthetic of punk rock and the edge of modernist fiction, indie games pushed gaming into the realm of the avant-garde. Superbrothers (Craig D. Adams) was hailed as a visionary in the video game world. Now, his long-awaited follow-up, JETT: The Far Shore, has been released for Sony PlayStation and Ep... + Read More
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Series: Finding Edward Paperback Sheila Murray 9781770866263 $24.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2022

Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2023A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with ... + Read More
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Series: Boys and Girls Screaming Paperback Kern Carter 9781770866454 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Apr 09, 2022

When Ever’s father passes away suddenly, she is devastated. Not long after that, her mom has a stroke and Ever’s anguish becomes almost too much for her to handle. That’s when she gets the idea to form a group she calls Boys and Girls Screaming. Along with her brother, Jericho, and her best friend, Candace, Ever wants to bring together kids from their school who have suffered trauma so they can share their stories and begin to heal. Although the other teens find solace in the group, Ever tumbles further into depression until she reaches a break... + Read More
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Series: The Underground Railroad Next Stop, Toronto! 4th edition Paperback Adrienne Shadd 9781459748965 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Feb 01, 2022

Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home.“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.” — Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The IllegalThe Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and info... + Read More
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Series: The Jigsaw Puzzle King Paperback Gina McMurchy-Barber 9781459746060 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jan 11, 2020

2021 Silver Birch Fiction Award — Winner • 2022 Diamond Willow Award — Shortlisted • 2022 Rocky Mountain Book Award • 2022 Chocolate Lily Award — ShortlistedBeing yourself isn’t always easy.When you’re new in school, all you want is to fit in. When eleven-year-old Warren and his family move to a new city, his twin brother, who has Down syndrome, attracts too much attention for Warren’s liking. Bennie’s different and doesn’t care about it. But while Bennie may be oblivious to those who are curious or uneasy with him, Warren notices every smirk, ... + Read More
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Series: The Call of the Rift The Call of the Rift: Crest Hardcover Jae Waller 9781770414587 $23.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 May 18, 2021

Step through the portal into a world ravaged by chaotic spirits and corrupted magic in the third book of The Call of the Rift high fantasy series. Kateiko Rin lives a quiet life with her parents and her people in the coastal rainforest. Everything changes when her estranged uncle washes up on their shores, harried and half-dead, trailed by two blue-eyed children no one knew existed. To protect her family, Kateiko secrets away her young cousins. Caring for them includes hiding their ties to the Rúonbattai, a warlike cult trying to claim... + Read More
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Series: The Annual Migration of Clouds Paperback Premee Mohamed 9781770415935 $19.95 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

AURORA AWARD WINNER “This packs a punch.” — Publishers Weekly “One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist “In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse.” — STARRED review, Quill & Quire A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community The world is nothing like ... + Read More
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Series: Watershed Paperback Doreen Vanderstoop 9781988298597 $22.95 FICTION May 02, 2020

It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do. Willa's son, Daniel, goes to work for the pipeline corporation instead of returning to help the family business. When Daniel reveals long-concealed secrets about his grandfather's death, Willa's world truly shatters. She's losing everything she values most: her farm, her son, her understanding of the ... + Read More
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Series: Homes A Refugee Story Paperback Abu Bakr al Rabeeah 9781988298283 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Politcal Writing. Audience choice winner of Canada ReadsIn 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria ? just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war... + Read More
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Series: My Left Skate The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov Paperback Anna Rosner 9781773370873 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Oct 01, 2022

Based on extensive interviews, My Left Skate: The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov is a first-person biography of a teenager who had it all on the hockey rink: guts, drive, and exceptional talent. When a freak accident leaves him with a permanent disability and no feeling below his left knee, everyone believes Eliezer's career is over - everyone except his mother, a professional power skating coach. She teaches Eliezer to skate using the muscles in his upper leg, and after two and half years of operations and rehabilitation, he returns ... + Read More
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Series: The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton Peanut Butter and Pandemonium Paperback Anita Daher 9781773370996 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Reading age from 8 - 17 Apr 25, 2023

On Goat Loops, in the realm of Niff, Sam learns a scary new truth about the Son of the Solstice prophecy, one his long-absent mother had neglected to tell him. Not only is he destined to fight an ancient sorcerer, but it will result in his certain death. As Sam's powers grow, he and his half-giant friend chase mysterious no-magic pockets, battle annoying, bitey dokkas, and look for a way to save the worlds - and his own skin.
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Series: Young Readers Reversing Time One Boy's Quest to Change History Paperback Charlotte Mendel 9781771836050 $25.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Dec 01, 2021

A fast-paced fantasy YA novel that explores vital themes in today’s society – such as climate change and the environment – within the context of an exciting page-turner. This timely adventure story will empower and excite young people at the same time
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Series: Children's Books The Enchanted People Paperback Jennifer Pool 9781771835398 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Dec 01, 2021

The Enchanted People is a humanitarian fairytale about a young girl named Wawatay who lives away from her village as an outcast because she is different. All the people in her village have an enchanted power except for her, and so, she is not accepted by them. While living in solitude, Wawatay finds an injured baby sparrow and begins to care for her despite ridicule and discouragement from her people. When Baby Bird grows up and asks Wawatay to teach her to fly, Wawatay embarks on a journey across the Earth to seek help from her animal friends ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb Paperback Candas Dorsey 9781771338677 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 21 Dec 10, 2021

It's not easy "choosing not to choose," especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn't make a big deal about it. Then Corey's dad dies suddenly. Now Corey's disapproving mother wants Corey to "pick a side". Corey's old enough to say no to medical intervention-but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey's refusal to conform to the gender binary.In the psych ward, Corey makes friends with Kim, a teen girl diagnosed as anorexic-or is sh... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Young Feminist Series Black Beach Paperback Glynis Guevara 9781771335690 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Sep 20, 2018

Included on Black Children's Books and Authors' 2020 list of '10 YA Fiction Books by Black Authors for BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month'Sixteen-year-old Tamera lives in La Cresta, a rural fishing community on a Caribbean island. Despite having the support of relatives, including her dad, Earl, her elder sister, Mary and her best friend and first cousin, Jan, she struggles to deal with her mom's mental health issues and the absence of her boyfriend, Dalton who moves out of the village to work. Tamera's life is further complicated after one of... + Read More
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Series: At Last Count Paperback Claire Ross Dunn 9781988784953 $20.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TVFor readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally RooneyPaisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on Amherst Island plunges Paisley into memories of growing up in the tight-knit community, and into the obsessive compulsive disorder that has only ever offered a semblanc... + Read More
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Series: Five Minutes to Curtain A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating and Staging Original Plays Paperback Linda Burgess 9781990737190 $19.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 15, 2022

Five Minutes to Curtain is a practical toolkit for teachers and/or community leaders who want to create original productions in collaboration with their students or group members. Providing multiple examples and anecdotes drawn from the author's twenty years of experience, Five Minutes to Curtain is a guide for providing more meaningful and engaging theatrical experiences for participants and audiences alike.
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Series: I Am William Paperback Rébecca Déraspe 9781927922958 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2022

Margaret Shakespeare, age 13, must write her remarkable plays in secret: it is 1577, and a girl who can read and write is in danger from the witch-hunters. After all, as her father keeps reminding her, a woman's place is in the home...next to a big pile of laundry. Once the sweet but dim William discovers his sister's astonishing talent, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever. What happens to women of genius in a world that wants only their silence? Can a sister's determination — and a brother's unfail... + Read More
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Series: Dear Humans A Letter from the Animals Paperback Nisha Coleman 9781773901312 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 04, 2023

The Earth is changing fast. Polar Bear?s ice is melting. Gazelle?s savanna is turning into a desert. Tortoise?s waters are poisoned. How bad is it? The animals gather to talk. When they realize that humans are behind the destruction, they must act quickly. Could they send them to another planet? Maybe the humans need their help? The animals write a letter to remind humans how they were meant to live on this Earth. And how to turn things around before it?s too late.
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Series: Dream of Me as Water Paperback David Ly 9781990293184 $19.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Lys second book of poetry, Dream of Me as Water, explores ways of being that are not beholden to the expectations of others. Using water as his central metaphor, Ly meditates on how identity is never a stagnant concept, but instead something that is intangible, fluid, and ever-evolving. Dream of Me as Water revels in the nuances of the self, flouting outside perceptions for deeper, more personal realities. .
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Series: The Sunday Book Paperback Michael Trussler 9781990293153 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2022

In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the complexities of being a parent in the Anthropocene, Trussler?s interconnected essays are united by his lived experience with a rare learning disability. The Sunday Book freshly engages with fundamental existential problems such as free will and contingency, all the while providing an original take on our contemporary moment.
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Series: Duecentomila Paperback kai fig taddei 9780369103826 $18.95 DRAMA Nov 01, 2022

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known. Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decisi... + Read More
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Series: Simone, Half and Half Paperback Christine Rodriguez 9780369103765 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 11 - 18 Oct 25, 2022

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants them to compete in the talent show with a dance routine, but her new friend Jay has introduced her to the Black History and Culture Committee’s activism and its organizer, tenth-grader Vanessa. Though Sarah represents the comfort of what she knew growing up, Jay and Vanessa offer Simone an opportunity to get to know part of herself that she hasn’t e... + Read More
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Series: Sangeet and the Missing Beat Paperback Kiranjot Kaur 9781989996058 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Mar 15, 2022

Sangeet loves music, and she's good at composing it, too. Her favourite instrument is the tabla. One day, Sangeet hears all kinds of noises everywhere and together, they have the most incredible beat. But when she tries to play it on her tabla--something is missing! Will Sangeet be able to find her Missing Beat? Teacher resources available on publisher website: rebelmountainpress.com/sangeet-and-the-missing-beat-teacher-resources
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Series: I am Everything In Between Paperback Sydney Sunderland 9781989996065 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 15, 2022

Sometimes it's not as simple as being a boy or a girl. I Am Everything In Between highlights kids who may not fit into stereotypical gender ideals, and celebrates how they do identify by sending positive messages about gender identity. This book teaches children that regardless of biological gender, it's OK to feel like a boy, or a girl, or even both! The illustrations include bright and bold examples of boys that like to play dress up and wear makeup, girls that like to play sports and get dirty, and kids that want to grow up to be astronauts!... + Read More
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Series: My Sister's Girlfriend Paperback Gail Schwartz 9781989996119 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2022

Fifth grader Talia Cohen-Sullivan isn't sure how she feels about boys, crushes, and the love thing even though her best friend, Carmen, is already dreaming about kissing--and it's only September. Losing her mom to cancer a few years ago made Talia afraid of change, though she still has her big sister, Jade, to help her through hard times. But when she sees Jade kissing a girl, Talia is suddenly thrust into a world she doesn't understand and faces important decisions. With the help of her therapist, and Carmen, and Jade herself, Talia learns tha... + Read More
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Series: Crow Stone Paperback Gabriele Goldstone 9781553806653 $18.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2022

The evocative story of Katya's epic winter journey through Prussia and her eventual imprisonment by the Red Army. It is January 1945, the last winter of the Second World War, and East Prussian civilians flee as the feared Red Army invades Germany in the wake of the impending Nazi defeat. Katya and her two sisters join thousands of others trudging to the Baltic Sea in the hope of escaping imprisonment. But in a raid on a night-time hiding place, Katya is separated from her sisters and forced to take a long and shameful journey back into the So... + Read More
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Series: Nathalie An Acadian's Tale of Tragedy and Triumph Paperback Debra Amirault Camelin 9781553806714 $23.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Feb 20, 2023

A coming- of-age story filled with heroism and heartbreak for 13-year-old Acadian Nathalie Belliveau. Separated from her family during the brutal 1755 expulsion of Acadians, Nathalie escapes and walks halfway across Nova Scotia to safety in Cap-Sable. When the compassionate Amirault family takes her in, she falls for their shy son Ange. But Nathalie's happiness is shattered by another wave of deportations by the British that keep the young lovers apart. Nathalie uses her tenacity and self-awareness to survive as an indentured servant in North C... + Read More
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Series: This House Is Not a Home Paperback Katłıà 9781773635620 $24.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

After a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada’s north return to nothing but an empty space where their home once stood. Finding themselves suddenly homeless, they have no choice but to assimilate into settler-colonial society in a mining town that has encroached on their freedom. An intergenerational coming-of-age novel, This House Is Not a Home follows Kǫ̀, a Dene man who grew up entirely on the land before being taken to residential school. When he finally returns home, he struggles to connect with his ... + Read More
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Series: Shop Class Hall Pass Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault Paperback Karin Martel 9781773241180 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2022

Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she is in a regularly scheduled, routine session with the department therapist to talk through the stress of her job as a 911 operator, she surprises herself by suddenly bringing up the memory of the groping she endured in high school. In her job Karin deals with victims of abuse on a regular basis, but has never identified herself as one of them. Shop Class Hall Pass delves into the difficult eighteen months of therapy as she unravels the ... + Read More
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Series: Exit Strategies Paperback Meg Todd 9781773240947 $19.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2021

The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. These stories do not shy away from difficult truths: a former actuary with a head injury which has robbed her of her mental acuity takes a job caring for a defiant farmer who is facing the decline of his body and his property; an elderly Belgian woman refuses to continue a road trip in BC when her soon-to-be-Canadian son and his dollhouse-obsessed girlfriend stop to help a stranded motorist;... + Read More
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Series: All the Quiet Places A Novel Paperback Brian Thomas Isaac 9781990071027 $22.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021****"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a c... + Read More
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Series: Radiant Voices 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks Paperback Carla Bergman 9781927366844 $22.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 08, 2019

A collection of essays inspired by EMMA Talks, a speakers’ series committed to amplifying the voices of thinkers, activists, scholars, artists, and community builders who are also women-identified, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks.From Idle No More to Black Lives Matter to the Me Too movements and more, one thing is certain: There is a burgeoning collective desire to hear non-dominant voices in subtle, curious, generative ways.The Vancouver-based EMMA Talks speakers’ series amplifies the voices of women-identified, trans, and gender-noncon... + Read More
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Series: Where They Stood The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal Paperback Black Community Resource Centre 9781773901343 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 04, 2023

A collaborative work by young Black writers working with Montreal?s Black Community Resource Centre?Matthew Mullone, Sherwins Jean, Anne Victoria Jean-François, Jessica Williams-Daley, Renee White, Amanda Asomani-Nyarko, Yoanna Joseph, Fabiola Ingabire and Fanta Ly?Where They Stood examines Black history beyond racism and slavery to tell the stories of those who made this community possible. These young writers shine a light on the activists, the labourers, the immigrants??all those who forged the path for new generations?and focus on positivit... + Read More