PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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My Little Santa Claus
Gabrielle Vincent
Available in English for the first time, this timeless holiday story of a magical encounter tells of young Magali, who meets a tiny Santa Claus, empty-handed and somewhat lost. She gives him a gift, beginning a beautiful exchange of kindness, compassion, and love.
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Mystery at the Biltmore #3
A Recipe for Robbery
Colleen Nelson, Peggy Collins (Illustrator)
Elodie’s LaRue Detective Agency is once more called upon by a resident of The Biltmore, this time by Chef Phillipe, who is about to open a new pastry shop when all of his recipes are stolen from his apartment. This case is as layered as a French croissant, and Elodie fears it will be the ruin of her agency’s perfect success rate.
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Never Silent
A Hiroshima Survivor’s Story
Setsuko Thurlow, Kathy Lowinger, Michelle Theodore (Illustrator)
Published on the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, this book includes Setsuko’s personal story of her life before the bomb, how she survived that horrific event, and how she has worked as an activist to ban nuclear arms ever since. Also included is informational text to give historical context for the places and events.
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NFL Moments
125 Icons and Stories that Define the NFL
Allan Maki, George Johnson
Through snappy prose and historical photographs, this book presents the NFL’s larger-than-life characters and defining moments from its 105-year history, including the founding of the NFL, the stories of the Forgotten Four and the emergence of Black athletes, Joe Namath’s guarantee, and the unrivalled and improvisational skills of Patrick Mahomes.
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No Depression in Heaven
ryan fitzpatrick
With characteristic playfulness and cutting wit, fitzpatrick’s new collection is a poetry “LP” of 10 “tracks,” complete with liner notes, that draws on country music, riffing off of and bending its rhythms and lyrics to address today’s uncertainties and anxieties, to resist looking to the past for comfort.
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No I in Team
Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics
Alex Marland, Jared J. Wesley, Mireille Lalancette
Drawing on extensive interviews and analyses of news stories, this first in-depth examination of the forces shaping political party loyalty reveals how members of parliament and provincial legislators are conditioned – through institutional rules, political pressure, social dynamics, and digital technologies – to prioritize partisan interests over constituents and independent judgment.
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Not Just Dirt!
How Soil Supports Our Planet
Sheryl Normandeau
Part of the Orca Footprints series about social and environmental issues, and illustrated with colour photos throughout, together with facts in captions and sidebars, this book defines soil, describes its many uses, discusses the threats it faces, and explains what can be done to protect it.
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Not Safe for Work
Nisha J. Tuli
Engineer Trishara Malik has given up hope of getting the promotions she deserves at WMC Purcell when she is chosen (in the company’s attempt at a diversity initiative) to attend a three-week leadership retreat in Hawaii. Unfortunately, Rafe Gallagher, her biggest rival and the boss’s son, is also attending, and a booking error has them sharing a suite. Things heat up during the competitive team-building exercises – and after hours in their shared accommodations – in this contemporary romance.
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Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate
Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Fawn Parker
Four novellas examine the struggles of psychological crisis. In Parker’s “Some Recent Experiences,” a young wife and mother continues to struggle with an eating disorder; “Lighthouse” by Harmer follows a writer who is writing a fictional memoir about her time in a psychiatric hospital; the neurotic narrator of McCreesh’s “My Close Friends” lives almost entirely on social media; and in Ah-Sen’s “Busybody,” a social outcast agrees to spy on his roommate on behalf of her ex-lover.
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O Canada Crosswords Book 26
Gwen Sjogren
The latest collection in this long-running series offers 75 new crosswords, with themed puzzles touching on geography, the natural world, the Olympics, specifically Canadian, and classic music, along with challenging non-themed crosswords, some of which have no three-letter answers or fill-in-the-blank clues.
