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Out of the Shadows

By (author) Gordon Henderson & David Bouchard
Categories: Classic fiction

Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba. The novel is told through the perspective of a young Irish-Canadian journalist, Conor O?Dea. Under mysterious circumstances, ...

Disobedience

Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love ...

Pale Grey Dot

By (author) Don Miasek
Categories: Science fiction: military

Three members of an elite team of operatives—once so close they were like family—are living in disgraced exile after a mission gone horribly wrong. But when the solar system’s Jupiter Station is ...

Indian Winter

By (author) Kazim Ali
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. 

"I am leaving for the winter – I have to ...

These Songs I Know By Heart

Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, ...

Peacocks of Instagram

By (author) Deepa Rajagopalan
Categories: Short stories

Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by ...

Les Somniatores

By (author) Beydi Traore
Categories: Fantasy

Noah Akeylla est un adolescent en quête d’identité qui possède une compétence pour le moins extraordinaire. Il est capable de contrôler ses rêves à la perfection. Il est capable d’entrer dans ...

The Harvesters

Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory.

When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she expects to ride bicycles through the picturesque ...

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

A young woman’s coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal—set against the stark landscape of the far north

Millicent is a shy twenty-four-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse ...

Autokrator

I am a gender criminal. I am Unmale, yet I write as though I am a person.

Driven by a Machiavellian mind and ego, Tiresius has risen through the ranks of the Autokracy to become Imperial Treasurer, has ...