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Playful, witty, and sharp, We are Already Ghosts is a summer book, a family story, a meditation of the persistence of place, and a chronicle of a time only just passed into memory. The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life. We are Already Ghosts joins the Briscoe-MacDougalls in the summer of 1996 and returns to them at five-year intervals.

During the 15 Year War fought between Japan and China, the eldest daughter of the Akamatsu family buried a bag of money in the back garden of her home in Hiroshima. The money had been given to her by her brother who was off to fight in China. When the Atom Bomb was dropped on the city by the Americans during the heights of the Second World War, the intensity of the bomb managed to reach the bag buried at least two feet below ground, and burn up all the paper money.

A novel about Mina, a woman in Montreal who has Down Syndrome. Mina lives alone, with the support of her older brother Bruno, who lives nearby; in her spare time, Mina embroiders. One day in the park, Mina meets Iris, a designer who sees Mina's bold textile creations and recognizes her artistic genius - and who becomes tempted with the possibility of marketing Mina's work as "outsider art." But is that what Mina wants? And what can - or should - Bruno do about it?

Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange. From the tangled threads of a messed-up family to the timeless themes of consciousness, love, art, and death, Damian Tarnopolsky's narrative journey takes readers through past, present, and future, with stories spanning from 1980s England to Renaissance France to present-day Canada to a world yet to come.

A novel about four friends from Edmonton who are part of the military, and who serve in Afghanistan in 2007. Drawn from the author's experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan, Juiceboxers tenderly traces the story of a young man's journey from basic training, to the battlefields of Kandahar, to the oil fields of Alberta, braiding together questions of masculinity and militarism, friendship and violence, loss and trauma, and white supremacy and ideology.

Charlie Muskrat part chasser l'orignal. Bien décidé à ne pas revenir bredouille, il se retrouve à Prince Albert au volant de son fidèle pick-up, Tonnerre, avec une carabine Winchester sous le siège du passager, un réservoir d'essence à moitié vide, un thermos de café à moitié plein, un fond de sac de Cheezies et l'envie irrépressible de continuer vers le sud.

Eagerly awaited debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired young writers. A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the "Code Noir," that once governed Black lives. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art: a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force.

This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different - to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard - nothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be.

Après le départ de sa sœur Nissi, Mikun n'a plus de repères. Tout lui semble hostile : la grande ville, la vie à l'école et celle à la maison. La jeune fille de quinze ans en vient rapidement à croire qu'en étant moins différente, moins innue, elle pourra, elle aussi, connaître l'amitié et les premiers émois de l'amour. Entre la quête amoureuse et la quête identitaire, Envole-toi, Mikun explore les déchirements du cœur. Moira-Uashteskun Bacon signe ici son premier roman.

#1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller with Gone by Midnight . Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear - and where others vanish into thin air... When Sara Farrow's son goes missing from a locked hotel room, she frantically turns for help to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell.