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A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints. Set on the Canadian prairies, one story follows a young girl into a labyrinth of frozen meat lockers where she becomes trapped by more than just the ice. In another, a son cares for the ...

As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the accep-tance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle-class upbringing, and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto. Told from the viewpoint of both mother and daughter, Walking Away from Hate chronicles Lauren's descen...

A story for every misfit who ever thought they were the only ones without all the answers. Robert O'Brien loves cars. Being behind the wheel was a refuge from bullying, insecurity, anxiety and confusion. His father's race car, a BMW E30 M3 Sport Evolution nicknamed the Beast, became his alter ego -- powerful, admired, confident -- and Robert began a quest to become a worthy owner, a "real man." Escaping Ireland to pursue an acting career in Va...

Exiled by war and a victim of geopolitics, Hassan Al Kontar found himself trapped in the arrivals zone at Kuala Lumpur Airport in 2018, unable to obtain a visa for any country. A conscientious objector to the Syrian conflict, his cellphone became his only weapon as he used social media to tell his story to the world.

It is 1944 and the young Canadians of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry have had enough of drills and night marches and waiting. Private Ewen Morrison is twenty-one years old when he joins the regiment in Sussex and meets his new platoon, including Reggie Johnson, an Indigenous soldier from Ontario's Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. His new friend supplements the army's training with some of his own, helping to prepare Ewen for scouting...