PreviewsIssue 85, Fall/Winter 2024-25
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Fur, Fleas, and Flukes
The Fascinating World of Parasites
Michael Stock
Stock examines how parasites can modify mammal behaviour, shape their appearance, determine where they live, and influence how they survive, and he also takes into account the potential impact of environmental changes on the ecological balance between mammals and their parasites.
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Gay for Pay
The Blake & Clay Plays
Curtis Campbell, Daniel Krolik
Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay portrays two out-of-work gay actors teaching straight men how to play gay roles, hilariously exploring how representation matters. Full of witty and whacky banter, Blake & Clay’s Gay Agenda is a book launch and overview of “a new batch of words to live, laugh, and love by” or “a cheat sheet for the eternal pop quiz that is gay life”: a guide to uniting the gay community.
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Get That Hope
Andrea Scott
A Jamaican Canadian family in Toronto on Jamaican Independence Day deals with a heat wave and deep-seated resentments due to such past and present issues as lost opportunities and a need for personal independence in this emotionally engaging play that is loosely inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.
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Get Your Footprints Out of My Garden
K. J. Moss
These clear and candid poems share the speaker’s journey of healing from the trauma of an assault she suffered as a 12-year-old. Moving from directly addressing both the predator and the child the speaker was – and lost and recovered – to poems of healing and living a full life, this collection inspires with its portrayal of courage and resilience.
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Ghosts of Gastown
a novel
Jessica Renwick
Twelve-year-old Hope and her mother move to the Gastown area of Vancouver to rebuild their lives after a horrible accident and an incident that revealed how Hope can see dead people – including her father. It turns out that Gastown is full of ghosts that only Hope can save, and luckily Oliver, whose parents own the crystal shop below their apartment, knows just enough about spirits and demons to help her.
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God Flare
David A. Robertson, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Andrew Thomas (Illustrator)
In this latest volume of The Reckoner Rises series, Cole, Eva, and their friends prepare for the newest threat from Mihko Laboratories. Brady is undergoing traditional healing ceremonies to overcome the brainwashing of Mihko, Pam is chosen to take the God Flare treatment and gain superpowers, and Lauren has her own source of strength – will this be enough to even the odds against Mikho and their monsters?
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Got Blood to Give
Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation
OmiSoore H. Dryden
Through storytelling, theorizing, and discourse analysis, this book investigates how racist and homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation practices.
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Grounds for Murder
A Jeannie Wolfert-Lang Mystery
Betty Ternier Daniels
Recently widowed Jeannie is under pressure from her adult children and a pushy real estate agent to sell her beloved farm. When the real estate agent dies in a crash, Jeannie’s problem is not solved, but worsened – it was not an accident, but murder, and Jeannie was the intended target! She and her new off-duty cop friend Derek have to figure out who wants her farm so badly that they will kill her to get it.
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Groundworld Heroes
Adrian So
This debut chapter book by a young Winnipeg author tells an adventurous story set in the world of Soiland, where a diverse society of gophers, aardvarks, badgers, mice, hares, rats, anteaters, rabbits, shrews, moles, and more live in harmony until a human invasion threatens their existence. While the citizens of Soiland evacuate and end up in Puddleland, Benjamin, a junior mole digger, and Conner Meercat are left behind and must confront the humans on their own.
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Growing up Métis: Stories of Resiliency
Cort Dogniez, Jade McDougall (Illustrator)
In linked stories, Dogniez delves into the lives of two of his foremothers, his great-grandmother Josephine Gariepy, and his grandmother Clara Dumont, telling of their marginalization after the 1885 Resistance, with a focus on faith, storytelling, and resilience.
