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Book cover for Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo, which was a 2024 GG finalist in fiction and longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Rare Machines). Amana and Skelele are made of water and air, their essence intertwined with Taino and African ancestry. They evolved as elemental beings of the Anthropocene, and shape-shifting with their naniki (active spirits) or animal avatars, they begin an archipelagic journey throughout the Caribbean Basin to see the strange future they dreamed of. Until devastation erupts. Tasked by their elders to go back in time to the source of the First People’s knowledge, they must surmount historical and mythological challenges alike. How can they navigate and overcome these obstacles to regenerate themselves, their love, their islands, and their seas? Cover shows an impressionistic view of perhaps a swimmer or pair of mermaids swimming through iridescent material. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751491-naniki

Book cover for The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage (Wolsak and Wynn), with red tentacles against a deep purple background. When enigmatic billionaire Burton Sykes walks into Re-Gene-eration, a bespoke reproduction assistance clinic run by Raina and Cedric, two disgraced genetic engineers struggling to get by, they know they have a very unusual client. When Sykes asks them to genetically engineer a way for humanity to survive the coming ecological apocalypse, Raina is tempted. Bees are dying, crops are failing, and she knows her research is partly to blame. Could she help in some way? Though troubled, Cedric agrees to take part when it becomes clear their benefactor will do this with or without them. How else can he be sure their work won’t fall into the wrong hands? But can they really trust Mr. Sykes?
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-midnight-project

Book cover for Countess by Suzan Palumbo (ECW Press), with a determined-looking woman in flowing cape against a purple moon. A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations (shortlisted for the 2025 Aurora Award for science fiction and fantasy for Best Novelette/Novella) https://ecwpress.com/products/countess

Book cover for The Fragments that Remain by Mackenzie Angeconeb (DCB Young Readers, Cormorant Books) 2025 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, indigenous YA novel. Andy and Ally are honorary twins; once born to reflect each other, now only one remains to pick up the fragments of a shared life. Cover shows a woman with her face to the light, eyes closed, in a painterly style. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/T/The-Fragments-that-Remain

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Book cover for R.I.P. Scoot, a novel by Sara Flemington (Nightwood Editions), with a cat photographed with a red filter and x's over its eyes. Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meet The Big Lebowski in this literary mystery that asks us to examine what stories, real or fiction, become the metaphors we use for working through our own challenges and uncertainties. https://nightwoodeditions.com/products/9780889714823

Book cover for In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World by Toronto-based music journalists Adam Feibel and Matt Bobkin (House of Anansi) The unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry. https://houseofanansi.com/products/in-too-deep

Book cover for Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications), with a woman with red eyes surrounded by black, suggestive of necrotic tissue, broken like panes of glass with title and author text on different "panes." Christopher Golden, author of Road of Bone, is quoted: "Horrifying and beautiful!" Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Collection. https://undertowpublications.com/shop/breakable-things

6/8

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Book cover for Like One of The Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Beacon Press), with a maid in a blue dress and orange apron ironing red cloth, the drawing cut off at the neck. A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers in Harlem in the 1950’s, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay. https://www.beacon.org/Like-One-of-The-Family-P1262.aspx

Cover for children's picture book You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Danielle Daniel (Orca Book Publishers), with two girls leaning their foreheads against each other. Encourage children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions. https://www.orcabook.com/You-Hold-Me-Up-P3773

Book cover for A Terrifying Brush with Optimism by Lambda Literary Award and Asian-American Literary Award winner Brian Leung (Sarabande), with twisty bands of yellow, red, and orange flowing across a blue background. In a cultural moment where folks are stripped of the their dignity or shed it willingly, the figures in this book wonder at the utility of maintaining their own. There's a touch of Hamlet's question in there along with some I Ching. Can monkeys pray? Are we better off living in the real world or a speculative one? https://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/a-terrifying-brush-optimism-brian-leung

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Book cover for The Mother, a graphic memoir by Rachel Deutsch (Douglas & McIntyre), with a cartoon woman on a circus swing dropping a baby bottle and pacifier. A raw and honest, harrowing and humorous journey into the dualities of modern motherhood in graphic memoir form. New Yorker cartoonist Rachel Deutsch desperately wanted a baby, yet she was fearful of actually being pregnant and having one. She lurched into a new identity and then missed her old one. She loved her new baby fiercely, but yearned for her previous relationship with her partner, as sleepless nights revealed the cracks below the surface of their relationship. Funny, provocative, visually striking and unabashedly candid, The Mother offers empathy and laughs to new and seasoned parents, encouraging readers to embrace the unexpected depths of feeling, wildness, weirdness and love that come with the territory. https://douglas-mcintyre.com/collections/new-releases/products/9781771624329

Death & Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe (nominated for the 2025 APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award) (Nimbus Publishing) Well, Dick’s dead. Now what? Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn’t want to deal with the details—why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery. Monty, Margo’s ex-husband (the first one, not the dead one), is trying to support Margo—who seems to be finally entering adulthood at the tender age of sixty-two. Their daughter Julia knows Margo needs her, but between work complications, house complications, and genius-yet-useless son complications, Julia’s gasping for air already. Dead Dick’s ex-wife Carole and their daughter Velma consider a Margo a maneater thanks to a few long-ago indiscretions, so the funeral is a nightmare. Life in New Brunswick lately is a tornado of siblings, children, pets, marriages, health issues, and endless bureaucracies. And at the centre of it all is Margo, living alone for the very first time, trying to endure everyone else’s judgements about the woman she is when she doesn’t even know herself. Maybe a cat will help. (The cat doesn’t help.) How old do you have to be to come of age? ….and has anyone seen Dick’s will? https://nimbus.ca/store/death-other-inconveniences.html

Book cover for Inuit Inngiusingit: A Collection of Inuit Choral Music II by Dr. Mary Piercey-Lewis, illustrated by Sydney Barnes (Inhabit Media), with two Inuit women facing each other. Inuit Inngiusingit: A Collection of Inuit Choral Music II is a practical music educational tool centred around choral singing in Inuktitut. This performance-based songbook is perfect for classroom students (ages eight and above) and the teachers who guide them. Through active participation, students develop as expressive musicians and experience the thrill of musical and cultural discovery through artistic performance. This songbook includes contemporary and traditional Inuit music from Canada’s Arctic region. Inuit popular music from Susan Aglukark and The Jerry Cans, Inuit folk music from Looee Arreak and The Uvagut Band, and traditional Inuit a-ja-ja songs and throat songs are part of this collection. https://inhabitmedia.com/2022/06/07/inuit-inngiusingit-a-collection-of-inuit-choral-music-ii/

Book cover for Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle (University of Alabama Press / Fiction Collective 2): In the enchanted town of Tannery Bay, it’s July 37, and then July 2 again, but the year is a mystery. Trapped in an eternal loop, the residents embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, unity, and defiance against the forces that seek to divide them. https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9781573662055/tannery-bay/

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Book cover for Ox Lost, Snow Deep by Alice Burdick (Anvil Press), with an ox against a white background, the sky suggested by a blue band across the top of the image. “I’m just going to break this, okay?” writes Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick in her sixth full-length poetry collection. The 14 long poems in Ox Lost, Snow Deep range from confessional narrative to collage to surrealism, exploring representations of history, both public and personal, and within that, they probe what is considered important and what is considered not important. These poems include takes on semi-rural existence, raising a family, and living in poverty. They also veer toward popular culture: using movies, music, social media language as jumping-off points or simply by taking those media’s forms. Burdick confronts the very embarrassment of simply being alive: excruciation, apology, loss, humour, mistakes, and grief—and the freedom achieved by acknowledging these things. Nominated for the 2025 Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award. https://www.anvilpress.com/books/ox-lost-snow-deep

Book cover for Citymouse by Eleanor Hannon (Conundrum Press), with a black and white drawing of a street scene against a white background. A green band across the top of the image contains the title and author text. A series of interlocking memories about people and places in a Halifax neighbourhood. Hannon has always lived here, and within that is a history of buildings in her life that have disappeared. As people and neighbourhoods change, the memories of how things were is increasingly challenging to conjure (but no less loved). Citymouse examines the ways that we begin to mourn places and experiences before we’ve lost them. https://conundrumpress.com/product/citymouse/

Book cover for a tender tale of two cousins, Cousin Bear Comes to Visit, by Métis artist Halie Finney (Conundrum Press), with title text in a brown box along the top and below that, two legs walking in a black and white drawing, with the edge of a hand gripping a bucket at the top. https://conundrumpress.com/product/cousin-bear-comes-to-visit/

Book cover for Inherent by Kevin Stebney (Assembly Press), typography broken down into its most basic (and beautiful) forms to reveal the inherent voice within each shape. The cover shows some letters arranged beautifully to form concrete poems. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/inherent

3/8

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Book cover for Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee (Stonehewer), a writing craft book by the author of Civil Elegies and Alligator Pie. Title text on a solid blue background, with a music staff with regularly-spaced black dots and one white x where one missing dot should be. https://www.stonehewerbooks.com/upcoming

Book cover for Cheer by Laura Doyle Péan (Les Éditions de la Bagnole), a book of poems in French, with the word CHEER in white faded university-font against a solid blue background. https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/cheer

Book cover for the children's picture book Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (Acorn Press) with a goose wearing ca.1945 aviator shades and a white scarf flying over Confederation Bridge. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow-the-goose-butt-to-prince-edward-island

Book cover for Dinosaurs of the Arctic by Dana Hopkins, illustrated by Aaron Edzerza, for ages 6-8 (Inhabit Media) https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/nunavummi-reading-series/products/dinosaurs-of-the-arctic

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Book cover for What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric essays on neurodivergence & neurofatherhood by Shane Neilson (Palimpsest Press), with a drawing of a brain in stylized dots and dashes against a yellow background. Focusing on non-neurotypicality, Neilson investigates his supposed difference of self while also holding to account society’s construction of that difference, moving from his early childhood to adulthood and then back again in terms of a neurodivergent fathering of his own son. Covering subjects that have yet to receive attention in Canadian literature, including how the medical profession discriminates against its own, Neilson’s poetic accounts of stigma and self-discovery interleavened with literary history mark a first in our letters. https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/what-to-feel-how-to-feel-shane-neilson/

Book cover for GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco (Drawn & Quarterly), with a face divided into squares against a yellow background. Imbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a future world. Carrasco’s distinct cinematic style layers detailed panels and spreads, creating a multiplicity of perspectives, at once dizzying and hypnotic. Vignettes unspool in proximity to our own social realities and expand into the outer layers of possibility. Whether in the club or a robot repair workshop, the characters in these three interconnected stories burst across frames until they practically step off the page. https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/gleem/

Book cover for Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn & Quarterly), with a variety of gray dogs against a yellow background, and the text "from the author of The Naked Tree & The Waiting". The author of Grass returns with a profound tale of family. Yuna never wanted to adopt a dog. But with her partner in mourning–and in desperate need of a boost in morale–she gives in to his humble request. And in the grand tradition of reluctant pet owners, she and their puppy soon become inseparable. The young couple even goes so far as to relocate from Seoul to soothe their new canine pal’s anxiety. After all, there’s nothing like a move to the country to set yourself right. Right? https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/dog-days/

Book cover for La doudou cherche et trouve (The cuddly toy seeks and finds) by Claudia Larochelle and Maira Chiodi (VLB Éditeur), a teddy bear search-and-find book in French. Cover shows a wide variety of objects behind a magnifying glass. https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/la-doudou-cherche-et-trouve?variant=46196683145473

Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread. (Alt-text for book details throughout.) 🧵 1/8

Daily #SmallPress #books: The Fragments that Remain by Mackenzie Angeconeb (DCB Young Readers) a finalist for the 2025 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, indigenous YA novel: https://www.dcbyoungreaders.com/the-fragments-that-remain

Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo, a 2024 GG finalist in fiction and longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Rare Machines) https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751491-naniki Alt-text for details.

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having a small hiatus for the next few days,
time to take stock and restock and have a sit still.
Readings / talks at both Whanganu (wed 18th June)i and Palmy libraries (Thurs 19th June) then the P.N. Zinefest Sat 21st .
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Daily #SmallPress #books: The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage (Wolsak and Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-midnight-project
& Countess by Suzan Palumbo (ECW Press) https://ecwpress.com/products/countess Alt-text for details.

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Cochon forêt - dessin au feutre sur papier bristol - 30x40cm.
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ICYMI, a wonderful review of The Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee dropped over at Strange Horizons. Review by Kyle R. Garton.

From SH: "This is folk fairytale refracted through contemporary litfic, unified by setting and 'a pervasive sense that reality itself is fuzzy.'"

http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/origins-of-desire-in-orchid-fens-by-lynn-hutchinson-lee/

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Just posted to #Metafilter, feminist #SmallPress Caitlin Press, Inanna, Metonymy, Second Story, and Women's Press: https://www.metafilter.com/208958/-Canadian-small-presses-20-

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Just posted to #Metafilter, #SmallPress from Montreal Black Rose, Drawn & Quarterly, Kersplebedeb, Linda Leith, and Pow Pow Press/Editions Pow Pow: https://www.metafilter.com/208935/-Canadian-small-presses-19-

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Daily #SmallPress #books: Cousin Bear Comes to Visit by Métis artist Halie Finney (Conundrum Press) https://conundrumpress.com/product/cousin-bear-comes-to-visit/
& Inherent by Kevin Stebney (Assembly Press) https://assemblypress.ca/shop/inherent Details in alt-text.

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Just posted to #Metafilter, more Canadian #SmallPress: DCB Young Readers, Flamingo Rampant, and Kids Can Press: https://www.metafilter.com/208923/-Canadian-small-presses-18-

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It was BOOKS & SNOOZE over at the Stelliform table today. The professional snoozer got her reps in for 4 hours of the fair, but we were busy topping up TBRs across the Hammer. Happy Reading!

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Here's what you missed at BOOKS & BREWS. Pictures of a sleeping dog in a few different slightly different positions but mostly the same picture over and over again because the dog didn't move for about 4 hours. Text at the bottom reads: Plus 100+ small press titles, local art and bookish merch.

Daily #SmallPress #books: R.I.P. Scoot, a novel by Sara Flemington (Nightwood Editions) https://nightwoodeditions.com/products/9780889714823 & In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World by Adam Feibel and Matt Bobkin (House of Anansi) https://houseofanansi.com/products/in-too-deep Alt-text for details.

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Just posted to #Metafilter, more #SmallPress hijinks: https://www.metafilter.com/208891/-100smallpress-

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