Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
Canadian Boyfriend is a contemporary, sports friends-to-lovers romance that effectively deals with the very real issues of grief, and eating and anxiety disorders.
mental health
The Suicide Tourist by Myna Wallin
Wallin leaves no stone unturned in this collection, probing her memories to figure out what was real and what wasn’t, as well as coming to terms with being an unreliable narrator of her own life, and what it means to be disabled in a world that has yet to accept the less “challenging” forms of mental illness.
Lucid by Jenna Boholij
As she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake in the opening of Lucid, Charlie Marin reveals herself to be the antagonistic force driving Jenna Boholij’s literary thriller.
Charlie has a successful job, compassionate family and friends, and a boyfriend in Winnipeg, but she cannot move past the death of her twin Cara, who died at age thirteen. The details of how she died are hidden away, but this loss makes Charlie numb to her circumstances and all possibilities for her future.
Bertie Stewart is Perfectly Imperfect by Melanie Mosher
I was pleased as punch and over the moon to be given an advanced copy of Melanie Mosher’s upcoming middle-grade release, Bertie Stewart is Perfectly Imperfect!
Batshit Seven by Sheung-King
Millennial fiction occupies a sad, weird, depressed niche now. The youngest millennials are on the doorstep of thirty, and in a world that is very different from the one promised to them (being a middle of the pack millennial myself, it’s a feeling I’m well acquainted with). This is the feeling Sheung-King (the pen name …
Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters With the Uncanny by Mike Barnes
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
The End is in the Middle: MAD fold-in poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
Taking inspiration from Al Jaffee’s illustrated fold-ins in MAD magazine, Tysdal explores living with mental illness through a new kind of poetry: the fold-in poem.
Excerpt: The Swirl In My Burl by Miriam Edelson
An excerpt from “The Swirl in My Burl” a collection of essays by Miriam Edelson
A Life Spent Listening by Hassan Khalili
In A Life Spent Listening, Dr. Hassan Khalili reflects on four decades of being a frontline community psychotherapist and shares the wisdom he has learned over the years. By inviting the reader into his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Khalili explores the human condition and explains his concept of the grid as a guiding principle in his psychological practice.
One Who Has Been Here Before by Becca Babcock
Contemporary Atlantic gothic fiction inspired by Nova Scotia’s notorious Goler clan.
The Bruce Hutchison Interview
An interview with Dr. Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D., author of Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil.
Stella’s Carpet by Lucy E.M. Black
Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the Iranian Revolution, Stella’s Carpet weaves together the overlapping lives of those stepping outside the shadows of their own harrowing histories to make conscious decisions about how they will choose to live while forging new understandings of family, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labrèche
Interwoven with childhood memories and the later day repercussions of a childhood never asked for, Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labrèche boldly tells the tale of a young woman battling the symptoms of her past.
my daughter Rehtaeh Parsons By Glen Canning with Susan McClelland
Rehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. But her life was derailed when she went to a friend’s house for a sleepover and the two of them dropped by at a neighbour’s house, where a group of boys were having a party.
Fuse by Hollay Ghadery
Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture.
