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    A photograph of seven copies of the Feeling and Healing Catalogue fanned out on a wooden table.

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     Cover: Soft as Bones, A Memoir by Chyana Marie Sage. A stark black-and-white image of a deer's skull on a grey background.

    Soft as Bones

    A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing

     Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

    A Daughter's Place

    A sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote

     A large red wasp's nest is at the top on a black background. Small pink wasps are scattered around the text: Welcome to the Neighbourhood: Stories by Clea Young, written in beige font against a black background.

    Welcome to the Neighbourhood

    In Clea Young’s arresting sophomore collection of stories, friendships fail, families stumble, and neighbours know each other’s business.

     Cover: Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto. A colourful book cover that features vibrant, detailed illustrations of various storefronts and buildings in Vancouver's Chinatown, with a blue sky background. The buildings display Chinese signage and distinct architectural elements.

    Chinatown Vancouver

    An illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver’s Chinatown, celebrating the vibrancy of the Chinese community.

     Cover: Widows and Orphans, A Quill and Packet Mystery by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. Authors of National Bestseller Bury the Lead. The cover image is a drawing of a woman in black and white on a teal background. She is lying down and her hair long black hair is strewn about beside her. She is wearing a red shirt.

    Widows and Orphans

    In Port Ellis, there's no off-season for murder! No. 2 in the bestselling Quill & Packet Mystery series.

     Cover: Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe. Two black outlines of papyrus swamp plants appear in front of a green background.

    Everything Is Fine Here

    A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.

     Cover: Abstract painting featuring three indistinct female figures in vibrant colors against a light background. The figures are rendered with broad, expressive brushstrokes, blending hues of orange, red, brown, purple, and yellow. The title The Creation of Half-Broken People is centred on the cover in large letters with the words “a novel” in smaller type below it. The author’s name, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, appears at the bottom of the cover.

    The Creation of Half-Broken People

    Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize

     Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. Over a bright yellow background, the cover features an illustrated pair of hands making casting a shadow puppet in the shape of a dog.

    Shadow Price

    Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. 

     Cover: Myth by Terese Mason Pierre. A seascape appears in silhouette, with a beachy area in the foreground that features a luminous bush and the edge of the water line. Behind this are rolling hills and a palm tree; in the background, large mountains. Three rings of muted colour populate the sky in red, yellow, and blue, with a cloud in the foreground.

    Myth

    The much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.

     Cover: Wellwater, poems by Karen Solie. Over an off-white background, the cover featured an illustration of a flowering lilac tree with a thin stem and visible roots.

    Wellwater

    The poems in Karen Solie’s sixth collection explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of value.

    New from Groundwood

     Rock

    Rock

    A rock remains true to itself when faced with a bullying seagull in this picture book from award-winning creators Laurel Croza and Matt James.

     The One and Only Question

    The One and Only Question

    It's Zeke's first day at a new school and his head is filled with one question: what will he do when they call him the N-word like at his old school?

     Shy Me

    Shy Me

    A shy young child talks about situations when shyness takes over and what helps them engage more fully. A companion to Angry Me and Peaceful Me.

     Sundays Are for Feasts

    Sundays Are for Feasts

    Will Yasmine’s hummus taste like the real thing — and impress Ammo Farouk?

     The Pony and the Starling

    The Pony and the Starling

    A girl and her mother watch an unusual friendship develop between a solitary starling and a lonely pony.

     Marcel with a Splash

    Marcel with a Splash

    Marcel was born with webbed toes and an extra chromosome in this tender exploration of a child’s life with Down syndrome.

     Cover: The Rehearsal Club. By Kate Fodor and Laurie Petrou. A girl talks on her cell phone while standing in front of a theatre poster on a brick wall that shows a woman in 1950s clothes talking on a rotary phone. The girl has pale skin tone, brown hair, and wears a red sweater. She smiles out at us. The poster girl is winking and has pale skin tone and curled blonde hair, and wears a blue dress. She sits at dressing-room mirror surrounded by lights. There are red roses in the background, and a photo of the

    The Rehearsal Club

    A mystery spans decades at a New York boarding house for actresses in this story of sisterhood and following your dreams under marquee lights.

     Cover: Getting Us to Grandma’s. By Nadia L. Hohn and TeMika Grooms. A young girl sits in the front passenger seat of a green car next to her dad in the driver’s seat. The girl has dark brown hair in braids with barrettes, and medium-dark skin tone. She smiles while holding a road map with the words “New York State Map” on it. Her dad has medium skin tone, short dark brown hair and a mustache.

    Getting Us to Grandma’s

    No one knows maps like Nikki — but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time for the wedding?

     Cover: There Is No Map for This. By Tom Birdseye. From a bird's eye view, we see a landscape of pine forests, lakes and a road winding through the trees. The title letters are stretched out above the landscape, as if they are hanging above the ground, casting a shadow. A boy falls from the sky, arms outstretched, facing the ground. He has pale skin tone and blond hair. He wears a black hoodie with a skull design on the back, jeans and running shoes. A cell phone peeks out of his back pants pocket.

    There Is No Map for This

    Ren feels lucky to be living with his older brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie — until a tragic accident leaves Ren and Ellie on their own.

     Cover: Genocide: Revised and Expanded Edition. By Jane Springer. Quote from Horn Book: “An impossible overview of a timely topic.” A stylized drawing shows a man with white skin tone, wearing red, looking down from where he stands on top of a mountain of human skulls. The background is black, and the title lettering is red.

    Genocide

    What is genocide? Why does it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? These urgent questions are explored in an expanded edition.

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