Yara by Tamara Faith Berger
Set in the sex-tape-panicked early 2000s, Yara is a reverse cautionary tale about what the body can teach us.
Women’s Issues
Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists by Christl Verduyn
Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form.
We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in Atlantic Canada by Heidi MacDonald
A mapping of the political contexts and problems faced by advocates for women’s suffrage and wider rights in the Atlantic Provinces.
Blinded By The Brass Ring by Patricia Scarlett
Blinded by the Brass Ring, Patricia Scarlett’s debut novel in the Jewelle Joseph Series, centres on the professional and personal life of stylish and ambitious Jewelle Joseph (JJ to her friends), an Afro-Canadian international television sales and distribution executive who works for TV3, a small TV channel with a big reputation.
Nerve by Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera
In Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First, Piper and Samarasekera share their personal and professional stories, offering guidance for women leaders of every age and at every stage of their career.
The Other Daughter by Caroline Bishop
The Other Daughter is an unforgettable novel about the bond between mothers and daughters—and the fight of women, generations over, for the freedom to choose their own path.
Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald
Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness.
An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto by Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Women’s stories are told in this wide-ranging collection of biographies, the result of Muir’s research on early street directories and city histories, personal diaries, and other historical works.
burninghouse by Deborah Stiles
burninghouse peels away the veneer of the speaker’s existence to reveal the hypocritical inconsistencies that lie beneath, including weaning children, decorum in elevators, and homelessness.
Elect Her: Still Struggling to be Recognized as Equals by Fred Groves
Fred Groves’ Elect Her: Still Struggling to be Recognized as Equals is an ambitious work that tackles the important topic of how to improve the male-female ratio in elected positions in Canada.
Swimmers in Winter by Faye Guenther
Faye Guenther’s first collection of short fiction, Swimmers in Winter, is described as a “trifecta …
To See The Stars by Jan Andrews (Guest Post by Lana Shupe)
Reviewing this book To See the Stars by Jan Andrews on International Women’s Day seems particularly poignant given the story between the covers. This story encompasses the fight for the rights of women garment workers after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that killed 123 women who were trapped there. Women exercising their right to strike even before they were allowed the right to vote.