Thank You For Loving Me by Nicole Bea
One year ago, Maggie Montgomery’s life crashed down around her. Her hope for a future and family died with her husband, lost at sea in a shipwreck.
Contemporary Fiction
If We Caught Fire by Beth Ryan
If We Caught Fire brings two families together for a wedding in St. John’s, an event that sets off a summer of fireworks in the lives of the people around them.
Two for the Road by Chantel Guertin
A tender, funny and wise new novel about a romance bookshop owner who embarks on the adventure–or misadventure–of a lifetime in search of her own happily ever after.
Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys by Aaron Tucker
Using the tropes of both the Western and the disaster movie, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys looks at the violence of our contemporary masculinity, and its deep roots in shaping our culture. A suspenseful and thought-provoking evocation of our current moment.
Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs
A queer coming-of-age—and coming-to-terms—follows the aftereffects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.
Coq by Ali Bryan
Ten years after her raucously entertaining debut novel, Roost, Ali Bryan checks in with Claudia and her family to bring readers up to date on their latest adventures.
Rose Addams by Margie Taylor
Margie Taylor’s Rose Addams is an insight into the life of a woman who is beginning her third act, an empathetic and incisive look at the problems of those just exiting middle age while attempting to keep up with a rapidly-changing world.
Mukbang by Fanie Demeule, Translated by Anita Anand
Mukbang is a grimy, shocking, and darkly funny dive into our relationships with food, self-image, and intimacy.
Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene by Jaspreet Singh
In his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.
Welcome to the Weird America by A.G. Pasquella
A.G. Pasquella’s Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. Plus, an interview with the author.
The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms
The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.
The Ice Widow by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
The Ice Widow is a different kind of love story, yet one more common than we may know.
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Radioland by Matt Cahill
In Matt Cahill’s novel, Radioland, something evil is stalking the streets of Toronto and people are dying in grisly fashion.
