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A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living with mental illness.

Watershed is a contemporary dystopian novel set in a near-future southern Alberta, which has been ravaged by desert-like conditions, as opposed to the northern part of the province, which is warm a

Jesse Patrick Ferguson brings music and poetry into conversation with each other in this compelling debut collection.

A sequence of poetic reveries that collide and collude suburban routine with subconscious fantasy.

With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North's past & present.

Universal Disorder is about a young boy growing up on the Canadian Prairies in the 1970s and 1980s; he has developmental disorders -- is on the autism spectrum and has OCD -- and finds solace in th

One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways.

The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died.

Through lyric and language poetry, this book explores and reimagines archives and histories of transsexuality and gender-from psychoanalysis, sexology, literature, anthropology, and feminism, as we

Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every day, poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one.

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a coming-of-age story about a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from

Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas.

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Montreal balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in THE GOOD ARABS ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes.

'In this singular story dedicated to the mother, the narrator creates an avatar to counter her pain of living.

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