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The recipient of a prestigious Gunter Fellowship, Jessica leaves behind Jamaica, the only country she’s ever known, for Cambridge, Massachusetts, near the end of the twentieth century.

The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse.

Separated for years due to a secret squabble among their parents, a group of cousins reunite following the death of an uncle.

Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library.

Tanvi isn’t the girl of Misha’s dreams; she’s the girl from his nightmares. She has appeared in his chilling dreams before he even meets her; when he does meet her, he falls for her.

The Y Chromosome challenges the reader to meet an all-woman society of the future. The few remaining men live in hiding.

Dale Paul is a witty, self-absorbed rogue and the hedge fund whale. He enjoys a life of self-delusion that allows him to gamble other people’s money for his personal enrichment.

It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore.

Pip is a 12-year-old boy who idolizes Robin Hood and bristles at the injustice he sees around him.

Deep Girls tells stories that defy the conventions of young adult literature.

Enid has never fit in with kids her age.

No one at school knew that fifteen-year-old Aggie and her mother were hoarders until the Idiot Boys. That made her even more a target of bullies than she was before.

These eleven short stories cover a wide range of territory - from Toronto to Cuba to Eastern Europe.

Laure Baudot's This One Because of the Dead is a collection of stories about the power of what goes unsaid – of the truths people keep hidden from each other, which guide their relationships and th

Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica.