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"There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are ... brittle." When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax's North End, all she has left is friends. Faithful friends like Judith, her lawyer, who is helping her take back her life.

Demoralized by his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. He wanted to help people; he’d always believed that as social worker he would be able to make a difference in people’s lives. But after six years of bureaucracy and pushing paper Mark has lost hope. All that changes when he meets Bumi, an Indonesian restaurant worker. Moved from his small fishing village and sent to a residential school under the authoritarian Suharto regime, Bumi’s radical genius and obsessive-compulsive disorder raise suspicion among his paranoid neighbours.

This book is a moving contribution to the growing body of fictional writings about migrants and racialized women across transnational borders. An authentic description of events and stories that is profoundly touching.

Instituteur, Joseph Lormier quitte Montréal en 1919 pour aller enseigner dans le nord albertain. Il fonde le village de L’Avenir, berceau d’une paroisse canadienne-française. Mais lorsque la crise économique bat son plein, un marchand anglo-saxon sauve le village, causant tout un émoi parmi les villageois. D’une écriture limpide, Dans le muskeg plonge le lecteur au coeur d’un débat engagé contre l’étroitesse d’esprit et l’exclusivité.

Héraldine Lecours défie sans relâche la loi scolaire interdisant l’enseignement du français… jusqu’au jour de sa destitution. Condamnée à affronter une société réfractaire à sa propre culture, Héraldine, dit la Métisse, s’engage comme servante auprès d’un Irlandais. À l’image du sort réservé aux Métis après la défaite de Louis Riel, Héraldine se heurte à la discrimination que subit son peuple.

En 1972, deux jeunes cégépiens de Montréal qui s'assument comme artistes -- l'un peintre, l'autre poète -- font de l'autostop sur l'autoroute 40 pour aller passer la fin de semaine à Trois-Rivières, ville d'origine de l'un des deux. Ils y rencontrent des ami-e-s et font la fête -- bière, pot, haschich, acide et sexe -- tout en philosophant sur l'art, la société et la vie.

Tim has recently passed away and left Lori with piles of expensive recording equipment and mountains of debt. Tim’s family wants to move on from the loss but Lori can’t let go, not while she can still hear Tim’s laugh as though he’s still there beside her. That is, until she begins to hear his laugh in odd places, like old recordings Tim never worked on. Can love transcend to keep us connected through death? Or do we just create our own reality when we’re not ready to let go?

As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over."Moving and tender ... A perfect book for anyone who feels a little separate from the flock."--Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--BookPage.

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love--and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalization too many--Black, queer, and transgender--to ever get his own happily-ever-after.