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New from Anansi

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.

I Make My Own Fun

I Make My Own Fun

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

John Candy

The definitive biography of film legend John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

Procession

At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.

This Is How We Love

This Is How We Love

From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

Letters to Kafka

A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures. Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve. The entire cover is framed in a white box according to the CBC Massey Lectures series look. Within the frame is an abstract illustration of several faces created from a collage of multicoloured fragments. The author's name and the title are set in the lower half of the cover against this background.

Universal

The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.

Cover: The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. The title appears in large white text against an orange-yellow gradient background that evokes a sunset. Two silhouetted hands appear, one at the top reaching down, the other at the bottom reaching up. The author's name appears at the bottom in yellow text.

The Hand of Iman

In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.

On Tour with Paul Myers

Paul Myers is hitting the road with John Candy: A Life in Comedy! Check out the tour schedule.

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New from Groundwood

Cover: Community Snowman. Story by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrated by Tine Modeweg-Hansen. This book is wordless and laid out in a graphic novel style. There are three snowy scenes stacked on top of each other against a blue background of people of various ages and skin tones pushing large balls of snow alone or together in colourful winter clothing.

Community Snowman

Building a snowman becomes a community effort in this wordless story about a cold winter day that snowballs into a warm neighborhood gathering.

Cover: The Story and Science of Hope. By Andrea Curtis and illustrated by Ana Suárez. A woman with medium skin tone and long black hair in a braid sits with her knees to her chest. She holds a rainbow-colored planet surrounded by a ring system and stars. The woman wears a multi-colored outfit and black shoes.

The Story and Science of Hope

Hope is more than a feeling — it can change the world! Discover how new science and ancient knowledge can help us face an uncertain world.

Cover: Home For Margaret. Written by Denise Davy. Illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A young girl sits with a woman in the snow in front of a blue tent surrounded by bare trees. The girl has medium light skin tone and curly black hair in two buns, and the woman has light skin tone; medium length gray hair and both their cheeks and nose are rosy. The woman’s hands are tucked into her jacket pocket, while the girl raises her arm as she is talking. Beside the young girl in the snow is a white grocery bag.

Home for Margaret

When Emma and her mom meet a woman who lives in a tent in the woods, Emma wonders if there’s anything she can do to help.

Cover: A Pond, A Poet, and Three Pests. Written by Caroline Adderson. Illustrated by Lauren Tamaki. The images in this book are in vibrant watercolor and black ink. There is a full moon and a man in a black kimono and a wide-brimmed woven rice hat walks along the edge of a green pond with a book tucked under his arm. A large mosquito flies behind him. The night sky fades into the green pond, which is dotted with large dark green lily pads, a pink water lily, and a yellow fish peeking out from the surface.

A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

A funny new fable about artistic creation and chasing fame, inspired by one of Japan’s most beloved poets, Bashō, and his famous haiku, “The Old Pond.”

Cover: Nightmare Jones: poems. Written by Shannon Bramer and illustrated by Cindy Derby. The title is circled by spooky plants and flowers, painted in red, purple and blue watercolor.

Nightmare Jones

A collection of jaunty and mischievously unsettling poems for middle-grade readers from award-winning poet Shannon Bramer and artist Cindy Derby.

Cover: The Butterfly’s Sting by Abbie Harlow. A teen girl, visible from the waist up, holds her fists in front of her with a focused expression on her face. Her hair is in a braid and she’s wearing a sports bra and athletic pants. The image is depicted in black and red.

The Butterfly's Sting

For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle — but only if she can win.

Cover: Wavelength by Cale Plett. When fame and love are on the line, everyone’s hearts are in the mosh pit. Two people, facing away from us, stand on a stage in front of a large crowd looking into each other’s eyes. The person on the left has light skin tone and brown hair. They hold the microphone while they sing. The person on the right has light skin tone and dark brown hair with an undercut. They have a purple guitar slung over their shoulder.

Wavelength

Hannah Montana meets Heartstopper in this story of a nonbinary pop star on the run who collides with a regular teenager and her alt-rock band.

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

My Street Remembers

My Street Remembers peels back the history of a single city street in North America to reveal the greater story of the land on which we live.

Cover: The Last Last. Written by Wendy J. Whittingham and illustrated by Brianna McCarthy. A young girl floats in bright blue water, smiling with her arms spread wide. Four small, brightly colored fish swim around her. She has dark skin tone with black tight-curly hair parted into twisted pigtails on either side of her head and secured by pink bobbled hair ties. Her eyes are closed as she floats, and her cheeks are a deep rosy color. She wears a pink one-piece swimsuit that has light purple polka-dots.

The Last Last

A story of a girl’s last day before emigrating from Jamaica to Canada.

Cover: A Single Dreadlock. Written by Xaiver Michael Campbell and illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. A close-up of half of a young boy’s smiling face is shown on the right side of the cover. He has dark skin tone and light brown eyes. His hair is dark brown, medium length and tightly curled, except for one single dreadlock. Over his shoulder we see a red-and-white fishing boat with a lobster trap on the back. It floats in front of a red boathouse on large wooden beams. Behind that, are rolling grassy hills.

A Single Dreadlock

When Lovie moves from Jamaica to Newfoundland, his classmates make fun of his hair. But with Grandma's help, Lovie learns to love and embrace himself.