After her dad is tragically killed, Dakota Moore's mom moves her to northern Minnesota, where Dak discovers an outcast classmate may be a reclusive miracle worker. She thinks she found him too late. The truth is, she met him just in time.Now, tucked into a secluded A-frame near a beaver-infested creek with her strong Sioux mom and a lisping little brother, Dak faces a new school and a trio of mean girls. Seemingly alone, she buries herself in a design app and self-pity until an old...

What's the story behind that house up on that hill? Twenty-three authors, poets, essayists and memoirists rose to the challenge and answered this question, creating The House on the Hill, the second anthology from Northfield Open Writers. Stories and poems vary from thoughtful to thought-provoking, from serious to seriously amusing. There's something for everyone in this collection of short stories, memoirs, essays and poems.

**The instant New York Times bestseller • Oprah’s Book Club Pick • A Goodreads Choice Awards finalist • Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews • Winner of the Nautilus Book Award • Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • A 2026 International Dublin Prize Finalist

Starr Media Second-Assistant Survival GuideDon't call your hot boss the antichrist to his face.Don't stare at hot boss's…um, package or his full sleeve of tattoos. (No. Really. Stop!)Don't get on the malicious first assistant's bad side.Don't forget to memorize the 300-page employee manual.If you value your cashmere, steer clear of boss’s dog.Boss’s dimples are lust-inducing. Do. Not. Give. In.“The e...

WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award!Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother’s fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators—family, friends, teachers, strangers, and Rebee herself—her family’s dark past, ...

*This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings.Holly's run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what felt like an escape at first soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. But how long can this go on? It's getting harder to avoid the truth—Holly is now homeless.Runaway is a remarkably uplifting po...

What's a girl to do when she's a broke, shunned ex-witch with a very tiny, very hungry bat familiar named Belfry to feed?Hello. My name is Stevie Cartwright, and I've been witchless for thirty days. If only there was a support group for down-on-their-luck ex-witches who've had their powers slapped right out of them (literally).Just as I was licking my wounds after returning to my hometown of Ebenezer Falls, WA, and navigating my suddenly non-magical existen...

Navigate between myth and chaos in this “journey filled with peril, self-discovery, and terrifying moments” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in—at home she’s the perfect daughter, at school she’s provocatively sassy, and thanks to her mixed heritage, she doesn’t feel she belongs with the Caribbeans, whites, or blacks. And even more troubling, lately her skin is becoming covered in a sticky black substance that ca...

Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative fiction. Through these enthralling stories of reality mixed with terror, readers get a wicked glimpse into the genre of Indig...

Mysterious dinner invitations, the usual summons servings, and an unexpected employment opportunity might possibly be more than even Parody Hope Barry can handle. Which is too bad because the employment, while unusual, has the potential for big bucks... okay, enough to pay another bill. But still, how can she turn it down? She's in demand, she's loved, she's making money, and she's in trouble!Even with help from her handsome neighbor, John Smith, somehow things go from bad to worse...

What do you do when there are goldfish in the horse's water tank, a baby magpie in the bedroom, a cow in the kitchen and a half-dozen small dogs rolling in the dirt to get rid of the smell of skunk? It's all in a day's work on Gayle Bunney's farm near Bonnyville, Alberta. Bunney's hilarious and heartwarming stories are filled with down-to-earth observations on country life and the animals she loves. There's Old Pete, the cow that uses the kitchen sink as a water trough; Tramp, the fearless...

When Herculeah discovers a mysterious letter inside the lining of a secondhand coat, she suspects it's a desperate cry for help. If so, what happened to the person who wrote it? Herculeah thinks she knows the answer. What she doesn't know is that someone is watching her-someone who will do anything to keep her quiet.