***A 2018 SPR Book Awards Honourable Mention******A National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist******A B.R.A.G. Medallion Recipient***Northern Ontario, 1960. A family on the Eabametoong reserve wakes to the sound of a floatplane on the lake. Within hours, six-year-old Wanisin and his sister Mitena are torn from their parents under a government order and flown to a residential school hundreds of miles aw...

After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot. Following the bloody trail, he comes upon a shocking scene: an illegal, deep woods campground filled with drugs, bundles of cash and the body of a dead young woman, killed by Moon's stray bullet. F...

The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda.Mim knows they're here to hel...

Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Top secret and dangerous. That's what your mom, a famous scientist calls, the research she's been doing at the labs of Dr. Eeek. You're dying to know what it's all about.Then one day you get lost in the labs. Before you know it you've become a human guinea pig in Dr. Eeeks deadly experiments!If you choose one lab, you meet a dog wearing sneakers. He's half dog, half kid. And now he's after you!If you choose another lab, ...

What happens when fiction becomes reality...?Shane Wallace pens survivalist novels for a living but he never dreamed he’d be living in a world that mirrors one of his stories. Vicious attacks up and down the East Coast have cost thousands of people their lives and driven even more from their homes to seek sanctuary. Shane, along with his pregnant wife their teenage son, is forced to abandon the family’s comfortable home and head to the wilderness to stay alive....

**WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.**Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lott...

I've reached my expiration date.Not that it matters. We're all going to die.To Mickaela Capra, all words have flavours. Each emotion burns so fierce she carves them into her skin. The night she decides to press the blade deep enough, a stranger offers her a different kind of ending. One that makes her question everything she’s learned about the apocalypse.But truth comes with a price. Two rules carved in bone: Kill. Survive....

Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction • A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist • A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist • A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.From refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to ho...

FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESN’T DIE. IT JUST WAITS.In the Hell Gate section of New York’s East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate s...

Philip K. Dick Award finalistWashington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018Abbey Mei Otis’s short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, putting kids from the moon into a small beach town and then the putting the rest of the town under the microscope as they reac...

**SELECTED AS ONE OF THE 10 GREAT THRILLERS FOR YOUR BEACH READING LIST BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYFor readers of Ron Rash, Thomas H. Cook, and Tim Johnston, In Wilderness is a suspenseful and literary love story hailed by New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson as “heartbreaking, bold, relentless” and “the work of a true original.”**Includes an exclusive conversation between Diane Thomas and Christina Baker Kline

This complex and lyrical coming-of-age novel portrays the messiness of teenage life as V learns to confront her problems.Virginia "V" Dunn is alone when a hit-and-run accident leaves her dog, Lucky, bleeding and helpless. Suddenly, the monotony of her suburban life dissolves: Lucky is in a cast, her best friend is avoiding her, her mother's drinking is getting worse, and her father is sick with a mysterious illness. Although V is surrounded by family, she is the lon...