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On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

On Wholeness

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation

Cover: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Features a stylized, colourful bee illustration on a dark background.

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.

I Make My Own Fun

I Make My Own Fun

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

John Candy

The definitive biography of film legend John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

Procession

At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.

This Is How We Love

This Is How We Love

From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

Letters to Kafka

A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures. Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve. The entire cover is framed in a white box according to the CBC Massey Lectures series look. Within the frame is an abstract illustration of several faces created from a collage of multicoloured fragments. The author's name and the title are set in the lower half of the cover against this background.

Universal

The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.

Cover: The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. The title appears in large white text against an orange-yellow gradient background that evokes a sunset. Two silhouetted hands appear, one at the top reaching down, the other at the bottom reaching up. The author's name appears at the bottom in yellow text.

The Hand of Iman

In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.

Cover: The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany by Halina St. James. An illustration of three sunflowers in descending size from the left on a dark blue background: the biggest flower has orange petals, the middle one is yellow, and the smallest one is pink; they all have green stems with leaves.

The Golden Daughter

Secret wartime letters, a volatile love triangle, an unmarked grave—a revelatory mother-daughter memoir about discovery, love, and forgiveness.

On Tour with Paul Myers

Paul Myers is hitting the road with John Candy: A Life in Comedy! Check out the tour schedule.

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Cover: The Butterfly’s Sting by Abbie Harlow. A teen girl, visible from the waist up, holds her fists in front of her with a focused expression on her face. Her hair is in a braid and she’s wearing a sports bra and athletic pants. The image is depicted in black and red.

The Butterfly's Sting

For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle — but only if she can win.

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

My Street Remembers

My Street Remembers peels back the history of a single city street in North America to reveal the greater story of the land on which we live.

Cover: The Last Last. Written by Wendy J. Whittingham and illustrated by Brianna McCarthy. A young girl floats in bright blue water, smiling with her arms spread wide. Four small, brightly colored fish swim around her. She has dark skin tone with black tight-curly hair parted into twisted pigtails on either side of her head and secured by pink bobbled hair ties. Her eyes are closed as she floats, and her cheeks are a deep rosy color. She wears a pink one-piece swimsuit that has light purple polka-dots.

The Last Last

A story of a girl’s last day before emigrating from Jamaica to Canada.

Cover: A Single Dreadlock. Written by Xaiver Michael Campbell and illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. A close-up of half of a young boy’s smiling face is shown on the right side of the cover. He has dark skin tone and light brown eyes. His hair is dark brown, medium length and tightly curled, except for one single dreadlock. Over his shoulder we see a red-and-white fishing boat with a lobster trap on the back. It floats in front of a red boathouse on large wooden beams. Behind that, are rolling grassy hills.

A Single Dreadlock

When Lovie moves from Jamaica to Newfoundland, his classmates make fun of his hair. But with Grandma's help, Lovie learns to love and embrace himself.

Cover: Words Matter. The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance. Written by Anita Fitch Pazner and illustrated by Sophie Casson. Two German soldiers march beside each other with their shadows on a tall brick wall. They wear green helmets, long-sleeved jackets and pants with knee-high brown leather boots and carry long brown guns. Behind the wall, a young girl and boy peek around the corner at the soldiers. The girl holds a brown suitcase. A white rose grows at the base of the wall.

Words Matter

A lyrical, illustrated account of the student-led White Rose Resistance, and the enduring power of words and personal sacrifice.

Cover: One Can. Written by Lana Button and Eric Walters. Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant. All illustrations in this book are in soft, muted colors. A young child sits cross-legged on the floor. A single can of food sits in front of them. The child has light skin tone, short black hair and wears a dark yellow sweater, blue pants with white socks and blue sneakers. They have rosy cheeks and smile. The flooring is a checkered pattern of red, blue, pink, green and brown.

One Can

A child donates a can of food to the school food drive, but they find the same can at home days later and realize what it means to give and receive.

Cover: Cats and Us. Written and illustrated by Marta Pantaleo. Translated by Debbie Bibo and Yvette Ghione. On a vibrant red background is a line of people of different ages and skin tones in clothes suggesting they come from different eras in history with different breeds of cats.

Cats and Us

A celebration of the mysterious world of cats!

Cover: The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island. Written by Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A close-up of a bird’s head fills the page. The bird has a black neck, white face, orange beak and long, yellow tufts flowing from above its eye to behind its head. Behind it are three more tufted puffins sitting on a grassy cliff with the ocean and clear blue sky behind them. The illustrations are done in watercolor and pencil.

The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island

Thousands of beautiful tufted puffins arrive each spring to lay their eggs on the remote and rugged Triangle Island, a rare and protected habitat.

Cover: King of the Dump, by Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrated by Scot Ritchie. A young boy stands on a large, colorful pile of garbage. The boy has light skin tone and short orange hair. He wears bright yellow rubber boots, dark green shorts and a light green t-shirt. A yellow crown sits on his head and in his right hand he holds a long green pole with a small yellow hoop on the top, where toilet paper has gotten stuck and flows in the breeze. The boy shields his eyes from the sun and looks to his left.

King of the Dump

A fun, thoughtful story about big machinery, recycling and learning to let go of the things we no longer need.

Cover: Maggie Lou Meets Her Match. By Arnolda Dufour Bowes. Two young girls stand back-to-back. One of them has medium skin tone and dark, curly hair pulled into a messy bun at the back of her head. Her T-shirt says BANNOCK SLAPPERS on the front. She has one eyebrow raised and is smirking while her arms are crossed in front of her chest. There's a band-aid on her arm. The other girl has light skin tone and her curly orange hair flows down her back. She waves while she smiles and looks over her shoulder.

Maggie Lou Meets Her Match

In this sequel to Maggie Lou, Firefox, the irrepressible Maggie Lou acquires a new cousin, and a horse — both of whom have minds of their own.