US English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE, in which Métis kin, one trapped by circumstance in a semi-criminal rut and the other disillusioned with performative activist culture, hatch on a dangerous yet bold political mission—freeing a herd of bison onto the sprawling concrete of downtown Edmonton—and then must deal with the fateful and fatal consequences that follow…
Read MoreScotiabank Giller and Writers' Trust Prize finalist Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF, about a Canadian chef who meets a colleague from Quebec while training in Paris who later comes to work for the chef at his first restaurant in Vancouver; over the next few years, his restaurant empire booms before beginning to crumble under the weight of sexual assault allegations and accusations the chef stole his most profitable recipes…
Read MoreAward-winning author of Caught Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s co-authored memoir about the latter’s four-year incarceration from the age of 13 at the Whitbourne School for Boys in St. John’s in the 1970s, where he was subjected to long bouts of solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and how he managed to find love on the other side, turn his life around and seek justice for those lost years with the help of his daughter, whose father’s experiences inspired her career in law…
Read MoreAward-winning Métis writer, Amber Boyd’s memoir, BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS, recounts a 24-year vibrant journey of reclaiming her identity after discovering that her grandfather hid his; her path back to the Métis community includes bear encounters, traditional medicines, bead works, a birch bark canoe, and lessons with her two children…
Read MoreToronto Star crime reporter Jennifer Pagliaro’s GIRLS, INTERRUPTED, a true crime narrative examining the recent rash of teen violence, specifically focusing on the alleged swarming attack of Ken Lee, who was experiencing homelessness, at the hands of eight teenage girls, taking readers from the night of the murder to the girls’ arrest and eventual trial, and interrogating how we reconcile a brutal murder with a broken youth justice system…
Read MoreViral spoken word poet Sabrina Benaim’s CHAOTIC GOOD, an audio exclusive collection of poems and stories about staying true to yourself despite external forces, and a celebration of modern ritual and worship in the search for something to believe in, from a meditation on her daily skincare routine to the medicine of music and a devotion to Beyoncé, to Bhavna Chauhan at Doubleday Canada…
Read MoreLife skills coach, blogger and Indigenous rights defender originally from Pays Plat First Nation and currently residing on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation, Andrea Landry’s picture book, REZ LIFE IS THE BEST LIFE, which follows the life of a young Nehiyaw girl living on the reserve on the prairies as she experiences the beauty of Indigenous land-based living surrounded by her kinship network…
Read MoreAuthor of Amnesty International Book Club’s 2020 Reader’s Choice Pick, SEVEN, Farzana Doctor’s THE BEAUTY OF US, a campus-based YA that tackles the complexities of consent, racism, power-dynamics, social anxiety, and the struggles with sexuality faced by a feisty group of teens – all girls of colour – while they solve a mystery at their boarding school in the 1980’s, to Pia Singhal at ECW…
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