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The Street of Butterflies

The Street of Butterflies features Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and their struggles to survive and adapt as immigrants in North America. These stories provide a glimpse of ...

What is Going to Happen Next

Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel, What Is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the lives of five members of the Lund family following their enforced dispersal after the father’s death ...

In the Cage

Daniel is one of the most feared cage fighters in Mixed Martial Arts, closing in on greatness until an injury ruins his career. He and his wife, Sarah, struggle to secure a better life for their daughter, ...

Two Roads Home

A fast-paced literary eco-thriller about the power of resistance, the fine line between activism and terrorism, and what happens when things go too far.

It is 1993 on Vancouver Island. A group of idealistic ...

The Sum of Us

What happens without essential services and front-line workers? What would the world be like without someone to care for, or to care with? The greatest gift to us is caring and sharing, no matter who ...

The Trickster's Lullaby

A winter camping trip turns deadly as two missing teenagers, a twisted love triangle, and the spectre of radicalism create turmoil in the remote Laurentian wilderness.

Amanda Doucette’s cross-Canada ...

Under Her Skin

By (author) Stephen Law
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

After her home is ransacked, her friend is attacked, and her white father suddenly reappears, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. In a narrative that ...

Chocolate Cherry Chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition for a life of experience and adventure, proving to herself and her mother that she is anything but a typical ...

Through The Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

At 20, Sheyda Porrouya’s life is almost over. Born in Iran on the day the mullahs declare the birth of the Islamic Republic, she witnesses the purging of all things Western and un-Islamic. Accused of ...

The Last Wave

Gillian Best, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction, weaves a striking literary debut centred on one woman’s relationship to the sea in this sweeping intergenerational family saga.

A ...