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A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine.Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can’t help bu...

The Prophet ﷺ said that there is no deed better in the sight of Allah SWT, or more greatly rewarded than a good deed that is done in the first 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah. This sacred month brings great opportunities and rewards yet sometimes we fail to realise and appreciate the importance of these special days. This short, yet informative book will take you on a journey to understand the hidden gems that one can avail from during the blessed mont...

This book is the fulfilment of my promise to Allah, the One that heard, answered, and released that eight-year-old-girl from the hospital. It contains the most challenging encounters from my life with physical disabilities. It delves into the struggles that I faced both externally and internally, and how I coped. It delves into the reality of how we all face adversities and the beauty that can be found within these hardships. It uncovers lesso...

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Read over 75 of the most compelling true stories of canoeing, kayaking, and rafting rescues ever submitted to the American Whitewater Accident Database. Risk is a part of everyday life, but it takes a special person to grab a paddle and choose to navigate a canoe, kayak, or raft over whitewater. After all, when you mix people and moving water, accidents are bound to occur. Sometimes, inexperienced paddlers make terrible mistakes, other times, ...

Relatable and nostalgic: Set in the 1970s, this memoir provides a glimpse into a world where children make the rules and narrowly avoid terrible consequences on a day-to-day basis. The town is universally familiar--it could be anywhere in North America. Relevant and timely themes: The Field skewers the nostalgic idea of the past as "a better time" by highlighting a loss of childhood innocence, set against the backdrop of suburban development. ...

Nuanced critique of the wellness industry: Cheryl is an important contribution to the current global conversation around the current "wellness" trend. Explores the experience of coming out later in life: Fleck provides an intimate look at the challenges, insecurities, and confusion related to coming out as an adult Insightful exploration of intergenerational trauma: Addresses the harm caused by intergenerational trauma but also asks—how do we ...

Award-winning graphic novel: The original French edition won the Prix des libraires du Québec 2023 and the Bédéis Causa 2022, and was nominated for Bédélys 2022 Young Adult Horror: A brilliant exploration of magic realism friendship, adolescence, and natural disasters through a lens of supernatural horror and magic realism. Up-and-coming artist: Bigué draws her debut book with an assured graphic style, on a palette of autumnal colors chosen me...

Explore a living museum of women from across time. A life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards. A future internment camp with a literal race for survival. A former band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power.In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how we refuse to be ruled. With gendered rage, and a  speculative surreal style, Exile...

An exploration of memory and memory loss—and an examination of humanity’s precarious relationship to the natural world in the Anthropocene. Christopher Kennedy’s The Strange God Who Makes Us documents our fragile relationship with time and the imperfect ways in which we document our lives. These prose poems serve as attempts to preserve and honor the past and serve as a call to action to insure an inhabitable planet for future generations.

In Every Hard Sweetness, Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights' era atrocities through the story of her family's experience with an all-too-common practice in which Black men were wrongfully incarcerated in institutions for the criminally insane. The result is a stunning work reflecting on race, criminalization, and the devastating consequences of a Black father's incarceration on his psyche and family, specifically his Black daughter. Told thr...

When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp descriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts generational trauma and the loss of a loved one while in the process of raising h...

Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of both becoming and unbecoming. The speaker in these poems confronts the impacts of ruptured relationships and trauma on his nascent identity. These poems grapple with the fragility of our most formative relationships—familial, communal and ancestral—as the speaker searches for a communion with himself that his childhood deprived him of.Again and ag...

Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat despite its heavy topic. Grab a snack, a drink and definitely grab Food School!" – Hana Chatani, author of Give Her Back To MeA twenty-something college dropout enrols in a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery. As they change their relationship with food, their relationships with people change, too.  Olive's...

The tension between free-spirited off-grid living and prosaic adult responsibility runs through Alison McCreesh’s tender and loving ode to the people and landscapes of the Far North." —Joe Sacco,  Paying the LandAt age 21, Alison hitchhiked to the Yukon and spent the summer living in a tent. 10 years later, in the deep of winter and seven months pregnant, she returns. Degrees of Separation is about what happened in between. Over the course of ...

Rozemyne’s reunion with her family is fleeting—no sooner has she completed the lower city’s Starbind Ceremony than she is whisked away to the archduke’s castle to perform another. The changes brought about by her adoption are still causing trouble, but her second Starbinding is a huge success(?) nonetheless. Next, she must attend a meeting at the Italian restaurant, gather funds for the printing industry, and even study magic! In this biblio-f...

With the help of the Jamils and volunteers throughout the city, Ryoma’s ventures in city management and defense have come to full fruition—just in time to combat the sinister forces plotting to bring down Gimul. As fires and violent attacks break out across the city, Ryoma jumps into action, but he soon discovers that his enemies are after him personally...Now Ryoma must fight to protect the city of Gimul, along with all his friends!

Solo comedy-drama about identity, masculinity, mental health and, most importantly, love.

Hockey fans will love this action-packed middle grade novel about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and being proud of who you are and where you come from. Join Alex as he navigates a new school, deals with new friends and bullies alike, and proves that on the ice, only the colour of your jersey matters.

I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.In this debut collection, Colleen Coco Collins draws on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations. Questions of time and presumptions of sentience, the language of rhythm and all forms of music, the peripatetic and the ouroboric all find expression in a widely cast net of sympathies rendered through the triple vision of her Irish, French, and Odawa heritage, each checking one ...