Jonny Appleseed follows a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer person living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Having left the Rez years prior, Jonny receives news that his step-father has passed away. Broke and wary of returning home, Jonny must quickly come up with the funds to travel home to be with his mother. In doing so, Jonny aggressively turns to…
The Midnight Bargain follows Beatrice Clayborn, a sorceress on the threshold of selecting a husband. Once married, Beatrice will have to don a collar that suppresses her magical abilities in an effort to protect her future children from becoming possessed by a spirit while in utero. Not only does Beatrice not want to be married,…
For some time now, Anna has been picking up the odd office job through a temp agency supporting supervillains through minor tasks and clerical work. Following an unexpected encounter with Supercollider, one of Earth’s most powerful heroes, Anna would be left with a severely broken leg. Her devastating injury gives her the needed motivation to…
We Have Always Been Here is the memoir of Samra Habib, a Pakastani-born Canadian photographer. It is her life story as she struggled coming to terms with her queer sexuality as a member of the Muslim community. I say it every year, but the absolute best part about CBC’s annual Canada Reads competition is that…
In Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, it’s February and it’s snowing heavily. You’re trapped inside The Hazel – a small restaurant in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Everyone from the owner to the serving staff are keeping secrets from one another and over time, have become tangled up in each other’s lives. As…
Jared, a fledgling pot-dealing high school student, has a life as consistent as that of a family living in tornado alley. When not whipping up a batch of weed cookies, Jared stumbles from party to party floating through life like an astronaut untethered from the space station. With his dog Baby Killer, the one constant…
From The Ashes is the memoir from Indigenous scholar Jesse Thistle about his life on the streets and his struggle with addiction and mental illness. To say Jesse has had a hard life would be putting it lightly. From The Ashes is the literary equivalent of a punch to the gut. You spend the whole…
Well, it’s that time again. The 2019 Canada Reads competition has arrived. Comedian Ali Hassan returns as host and moderator for the third straight year after taking over from Wab Kinew in 2017. This year, the theme is “one book to move you”. With that in mind, it likely meant that you had some heavy…
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