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A new, heartwarming middle-grade story from the critically acclaimed author Heather Smith featuring Tig, a young girl struggling to find peace within herself and in her new family.

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Finalist • Globe and Mail Top 100 Best Books of 2024 • One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian Books • One of the CBC's Canadian Fiction Books to Read

Le petit Stéphane a toujours rêvé d'avoir des patins. C'est ce qu'il demande chaque année au père Noël. Et voilà qu'il les reçoit, mais un mois avant le temps.

The rock was always there...until, one day, it wasn't. The rock and the butterfly are a perfect fit.

National Bestseller. Finalist for the Toronto Books Awards. Finalist for the Hilary Weston–Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction.

Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards.

Three starred reviews!

In the vibrant heart of Toronto's Gerrard India Bazaar, Dilpreet and his daughters, Jasmeet and Simran, are frantically preparing to open their new sari shop in time for Canada Day.

In What to feel, how to feel, Shane Neilson dazzles in the lyric essay form.

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Finalist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

"The map of the land is in our blood." A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dislodge something—anything.

Instant national bestseller.

An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.

Shortlisted, 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Shortlisted, 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry.

Seven starred reviews! "It's rare to find a book so thought-provoking and haunting that also feels like it's welcoming the reader with a warm hug." – The New York Times.