A Mother’s Betrayal: The Murder of Karissa Boudreau and the RCMP Investigation that Uncovered the Truth by John Elliott
A shocking but compelling story, A Mother’s Betrayal takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster from start to finish.
Best Books of 2023
You Break It You Buy It By Lynn Tait
You Break It, You Buy It features poems about disconnection, misconnections: the loss of friendships and identity, our voice, our purpose.
The Gull Workshop by Larry Mathews
The Gull Workshop is a collection of stories that features a unique combination of thematic seriousness and comic style.
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.
Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante
Through these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman’s body, Her Body Among Animals moves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility.
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter by Laura Goodman Salverson
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard
Ian Colford puts his unique and stellar writing skills into this dark tale of death, love, and mystery.
The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles by Jason Guriel
I’ve read a lot of outstanding books both before and after The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, but none so singularly innovative in their storytelling.
Cocktail by Lisa Alward
Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
Tonight We Sleep with the Window Open: Poems and Drawings from Belleisle Bay Melanie Craig-Hansford
Melanie Craig-Hansford spent her childhood summers and holidays in the Belleisle Bay area on the Kingston Peninsula in southern New Brunswick; it is the place that called her back after a long absence.
Eyes in Front When Running by Willow Kean
Eyes in Front When Running is a quick-witted family drama that uses humour to tackle heavy topics, such as the crumbling of a relationship, miscarriage, abortion, infertility, and postpartum depression.
The Hippie Pirates by Lana Shupe
There are many things that Kent, Ryan, and Amy love about their somewhat eccentric hippie-pirate grandparents, but best of all are their wonderful stories about travelling the world in search of treasure.
Of Mothers & Madonnas by Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
Of Mothers & Madonnas by Luciana Erregue-Sacchi is a small collection, a bilingual chapbook, part of The Polyglot Chapbook Series.
Knife on Snow by Alice Major
What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow covered yard? With Knife on Snow, Alice Major employs history, myth, and science to understand a world ablaze.
Green Islands: Poems from the Great Bear Rainforest, by Ian Thomas
Rich in metaphor and figurative language, the 26 poems in this chapbook evoke the flora, fauna, and atmosphere of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest with evocative vividness.
