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Elizabeth loves her job at the Manitoba Legislature building in Winnipeg, Manitoba. However, being marooned at work on the eve of the winter solstice due to a blizzard was not on her list of holiday events. The legislature building is full of mysterious symbols, hidden in plain sight. From the Bison to the Pool of the Black Star, there is more to the symbols than Elizabeth ever imagined. To her surprise she encounters another soul in the building with her—a mysterious man who says his name is Septimus.

Can a cat be a bridezilla? In Fauanburg she can in this delightful sequel to All the Furs and Feathers. The success of Oneness Park has brought big changes to town. Smokey is now Abigail Fluffington's partner at Fluffington Arcatechture. Autumn Amelia runs the wildly popular Mama Cat's Kitchen. But it's not all fun and games. Two strange cats are stalking Smokey. When she finally confronts them, she gets the shock of a lifetime.

Stories and legends of a medicine woman banished from her village for being accused of being a witch are told around the campfires. Tales of the wondrous gifts of plants with healing medicine in the mountains near her village make a young woman determined to find the elusive herbs and the medicine woman with the knowledge of their use. Go'diah needs the witch's wisdom to help her dying grandfather before he is driven mad by his dreams. An ancient curse lies over her village. With the blessing of her elders, she sets off with her dog, Midnight.

Jude works as a low-paid janitor in a boxing gym. One fateful night he encounters Mad Madge, a homeless woman claiming she can reconnect him with his daughter. Desperate and intoxicated, he consumes a strange serum and is thrust into a nightmarish realm. There, Little Blue's spirit reveals that a snake-tattooed man is responsible for her death, igniting a fierce hunger for vengeance when Jude awakens in a hospital bed. Nothing will stop Jude from seeking revenge for his little girl. However, he is unprepared for the lengths some will go to protect their secrets and power.

Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to investigate the origin of a human bone discovered in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Barely set up in the horse campground, they're confronted with the disappearance of a woman and her teen daughter from a nearby campsite. After determining that the missing women are still in the park, the Fletchers coordinate a search effort across the 110 square miles of the park as thunderstorms threaten to ignite lightning fires and the Little Missouri River swells past its banks, making portions of the park inaccessible.

The reclusive archivist, Isten, has taken on the unenviable task of cataloging the history of his world before time runs out and the land of Pryr comes to a devastating end. Curating this assortment challenges Isten to reevaluate his beliefs about his home and his place within it. Concepts such as faith, bigotry, love, and power will have to be dissected if Isten is going to tell the tale of this strange land.

A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town. Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn’t discuss: the loss of his twin brother, Sam.

Rachel and her little sister, Jane, are spending the summer with two strangers who happen to be their grandparents. Up until their mom's death a few months ago, Rachel didn't know these people existed, and now she's been packed off to the family ranch in the interior of British Columbia—a place with mountains, lakes, and zero cell service. But her newfound family isn't the only secret that's been kept from her. Why did their mother leave her family so many years ago? Why does their grandpa stay hidden away in the basement, and what happened to their Uncle Jimmy?

Jack, the delightful, mischievous, big-hearted hero of so many Newfoundland folktales, is worried about his parents. They aren't getting any younger; in fact, they're really quite old. So, Jack and his brothers Bill and Tom decide to set out and find a magic fruit that will make the old young again.

Jack o' Hearts is the top card player in the parish, and is feeling pretty sure of himself. When he is challenged to a card game with stakes higher than high by a mysterious green man, well, Jack can't resist. Sure, he's never lost a tournament yet, has he? Jack is as saucy as saucy can be, and he's twice as lucky as that—but the game is trickier than it looks. Luckily, Jack finds he's got an ace up his sleeve: the menacing green man's beautiful daughter Ann.