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Jane Park on Obasan

The author of Inheritance explores her complicated relationship with an iconic work of East Asian Canadian literature.

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The Book of Birds

The Book of Birds

From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

The Two Roberts

An intoxicating, brave, and compassionate novel reimagining one of the most passionate love stories of modern British art.

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

Interregnum

A riveting chronicle of the battle for chess supremacy and the brilliant, eccentric, extremely online grandmasters changing an ancient game.

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

Temporary Palaces

For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

The Wren

In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with

Ultra Blue

Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with

Pitiful

Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

Inheritance

A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

Definitely Thriving

The heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.

Together by the Sea

Together by the Sea

In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

Seven Heavens Away

A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

A Love Affair with the Unknown

A refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty to help make the hard parts of life more manageable.

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

Sharing the Light

Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world.

Cover: Planet Earth: Stories by Nicholas Ruddock. The title and author name fill the cover in block capital letters over a background of an abstract painting of a forest fire. The dark shapes of pine trees are distinguishable and there is a swath of red across the middle of the image.

Planet Earth

International award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

On Wholeness

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation

Cover: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Features a stylized, colourful bee illustration on a dark background.

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

I Make My Own Fun

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom

New Releases

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

Monster Mender

A monster mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.

Stella and Sam ABC

Stella and Sam ABC

Join Stella and Sam in this new board book as they journey through the alphabet and into the hearts of a new generation.

Me enoja

Me enoja

The Spanish-language edition of bestselling Angry Me, in which a child tells us what makes her angry and how she tries to let the anger come and go.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

My Mom Is Like a Kite

A child touchingly narrates the ups and downs of living with a parent who experiences mental illness.

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

Fly Away Home

Driven from her nest, Little Bird crosses paths with other migrating animals, including humans, looking for a safe place to call home.

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

A celebration of the Nahuat language and culture, presented as a collection of poems in Nahuat, Spanish and English, about growing up in the Salvadoran village of Witzapan.

One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

One Goal

A timely look at how soccer players, organizations, clubs and fans are taking action to do better for the planet.

West Coast Wild Seashore Hide and Seek. Written by Deborah Hodge and illustrated by Karen Reczuch. A watercolor illustration shows a white sandy beach at low tide with shallow tide pools scattered across the beach. Three black oystercatcher birds use their red beaks to peck around the tide pools, looking for food. A tide pool below one of the birds reveals green anemones, purple sea urchins and small rocks below.

West Coast Wild Seashore Hide and Seek

What seashore treasures can you find at low tide?

Book cover for “Every Space Between” by Naseem Hrab and John Martz. The cover is split in three sections: day, blank white space and night. On the left, a child with medium skin tone and straight black hair runs in daylight under a pale yellow sun. On the right, a white dog with black and brown spots and a red collar runs happily under a night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. The large orange title text “EVERY SPACE BETWEEN” fills the space in the centre with the creator names below in light blue.

Every Space Between

Discover the hidden moments tucked between beginnings and endings, between actions and reactions, between you and me!

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests illustrator Lauren Tamaki invites us on a tour of her studio!

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