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Winter of 88


Nazanin Malekan , Mohammad Yaghoubi


A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them.Already eight years into the Iran–Iraq War, Nasrin and her two adult...

Publication date: 2023-03-28
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The Negroes Are Congregating


Natasha Adiyana Morris


In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a heartbeat through a journey of raw truths and deep-rooted questions....

Publication date: 2023-01-31
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Yaga


Kat Sandler


She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives?  A...

Publication date: 2023-01-31
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Post-Democracy


Hannah Moscovitch


Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world when its people have limitless power? When a CEO and his...

Publication date: 2023-01-24
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How It Ends


Debbie Patterson


Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it? Grieving siblings Natalie and Bart have differing views on how we die. Natalie, a...

Publication date: 2023-01-10
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Reaching for Starlight


Donna-Michelle St. Bernard


Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices that their strict maestra is not holding everyone to the same...

Publication date: 2023-01-10
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Forgiveness


Cindy Mochizuki , Mark Sakamoto


Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII:Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families after the war, Ralph andMitsue...

Publication date: 2023-01-10
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Download this eBook William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling
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William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling


Cliff Cardinal


The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, Indigenous creator and cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal seeks to...

Publication date: 2022-12-13
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Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias


Beatriz Pizano


The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision to end their lives for them if they’re...

Publication date: 2022-12-13
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Wasp


Rhiannon Collett


In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work and defend their home. Meanwhile, the Prophet’s daughters grapple...

Publication date: 2022-12-06
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The Enchanted Loom


Dushy Gnanapragasam , Suvendrini Lena


The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears witness from their new home of...

Publication date: 2022-11-22
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Wildfire & The Shoe


Leanna Brodie , David Paquet


With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ journeys. In Wildfire, three odd triplets, two misfits, and...

Publication date: 2022-11-22
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Duecentomila


Kai Fig Taddei


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...

Publication date: 2022-11-01
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Simone, Half and Half


Christine Rodriguez


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...

Publication date: 2022-10-25
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Public Enemy


Olivier Choinière , Bobby Theodore


Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both divide and unite people.Elizabeth, the matriarch, has invited her...

Publication date: 2022-10-04
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Blow Wind


Daniel Macdonald


After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in “home,” Sarah learns nothing is how...

Publication date: 2022-09-27
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Is My Microphone On?


Jordan Tannahill


In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal girl. Which is this life. After thousands of years, I have a...

Publication date: 2022-09-13
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Lady Sunrise


Marjorie Chan


From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces us to six women who are risking...

Publication date: 2022-06-28
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Download this eBook Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down
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Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down


Robert Chafe


After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can’t shake the burning question of whether he’s Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or is it all just in his head?  ...

Publication date: 2022-06-07
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Let's Run Away


Daniel Macivor


Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t many. It’s a memoir written by someone who abandoned him twice—once as a...

Publication date: 2022-05-10
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