Jackie Morris’s "The Wild Swans" is a dreamy retold fairy tale that’s full of hope, beauty, and love. A retelling of “The Wild Swans” by Hans Christian Andersen, the story revolves around the princess Eliza and her eleven... Read More

An observant girl navigates adolescence in a vibrant neighborhood in Chelene Knight’s coming-of-age novel "Junie". In 1933 in Vancouver, Junie and her mother, Maddie, move to the East End, a neighborhood teeming with life and color.... Read More

A newspaper clipping ignites a widow’s search for the truth in Sam Shelstad’s mystery novel "Citizens of Light". Colleen has been going through the motions since the death of her husband, Leonard. While on shift at the call center,... Read More

In "Lech", lives intersect in the mountains of New York, exposing the countless banalities and brutalities of generations. Within pages of the book’s start, a character recalls being assaulted as a child. This sets the tone for the... Read More

Over the course of more than a hundred microstories, "Plain Air" outlines the stuttering lives of the inhabitants of Winesburg, Indiana. Winesburg is the definition of a flyover town. It even has the contrails to prove it. But when the... Read More

In Brenda Lozano’s "Witches", an Indigenous healer tells her story to a reporter who has her own unhealed wounds. Paloma was killed for being Muxe, a third gender recognized by the Zapotec, one of Mexico’s many Indigenous groups. The... Read More

A Black woman rebels against racism and class, finding her voice, in Kimberly Garrett Brown’s novel Cora’s Kitchen. In 1928, Cora James is an aspiring writer who works as a librarian in New York. She is aware of the privileged... Read More

A solitary young woman gazes into a senior’s tumultuous past in "Almost Visible", Michelle Sinclair’s immersive novel about finding connections and living through regrets. Fresh from Nova Scotia, Tess moves to Montreal and in with a... Read More