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Lucy and her family are skating on an outdoor rink when she sees a game of hockey going on. It looks like fun, but maybe too challenging.

This gorgeously illustrated picture book is a celebration of summer vacation and West Coast island life.

No matter how hard he tries, even with the help of his classroom aide, Ian Goobie can't do the things that the other children in his class can do. Every day he dreads going to school.

Inspired by a story told to the author while on safari in 2015, The Wild Beast describes the creation of one of Africa's most unusual animals, the wildebeest.

From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull sidewalks.

Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt.

A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy.

A startling, moving magic realist debut. Almost immediately upon Julie Bird's return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down.

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start.

Three crooked cops going straight after a murderer. Woody was working on getting high when the phone rang. Dennis was on a date - it was a date he paid for, but a date all the same.

Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers.

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded.

Journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner have been together six months after meeting on a dating website.

In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family,