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A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love.

The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003.

An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.

A young boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, and asks her to explain what it is and why she wears it.

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago.

A poignant, multi-voiced novel about life in the inner city.

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technolog

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused.

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.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands.

Thirtysomething Nicky Fowler has it all-- a rewarding career, a loving husband and the perfect home.

Go back to the beginning of the Collins-Burke mysteries with this collection, which includes the first three novels in the award-winning series: Sign of the Cross, Obit, and Barrington Street Blues

Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes.

The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut novel by a powerful new voice.

2016. Social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after the funeral.