Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
It is here that her mother digs up two long spears hidden amongst the roots of a great tree. Annis learns that one of the spears belonged to her grandmother, Mama Aza, who had been a woman warrior married to a king.
Laura Patterson
All Things Seen and Unseen by RJ McDaniel
It has been a few weeks since I finished reading All Things Seen and Unseen and my head is still spinning. This novel was hard to put down and is proving even harder to forget.
The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham
Airplanes, Morse code, spy school, family tragedy, sisterhood, and true love — this book really does have it all.
The World is But a Broken Heart by Michael Maitland
The eleven interconnected stories in The World Is But a Broken Heart follow the Fitzpatricks, a blue-collar family constantly followed by bad luck.
Immortal North Two by Tom Stewart
The “achingly beautiful” story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve.
Immortal North by Tom Stewart
A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.
Chronic Conditions by Karen Engle
In her memoir of a life lived in physical pain, Karen Engle asks whether and how language can capture what it’s like to be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled messaging, reroutings, and shaky foundations.
The Grimmer by Naben Ruthnum
Bringing together scares, suspense, and body horror, The Grimmer is award-winning author Naben Ruthnum’s first foray into the young adult genre.
Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no survivors. By Friday, Sept 4th, thousands of dismembered body parts had come through Dr. John Butt’s makeshift morgue in Hangar B at the Shearwater military base. The Chief Medical Examiner faced the most challenging and grisly task of his career.
The Family Code by Wayne Ng
The Family Code is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko, a young single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything.
All the Colour in The World by C.S. Richardson
The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.
Deuce by Vivian Zenari
Pete Peterborough suddenly deletes his Facebook account and gets rid of his phone, craving a complete disconnect from the digital world and his meddlesome mother and twin sister.
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
An exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America, inspired by a historical figure.
The Donkey Cutter by Gregory Koop
Years after the death of her mother, Mareika Doerksen moves through her adolescence with feelings of loss, confusion, and isolation as she seems somewhere between not being a child and not being a complete woman.
