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The Wendy Award

By (author) Walter Scott
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Series: Wendy

Everybody’s favorite party girl Wendy is so back
When Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize alongside her friend Winona, all of her millennial dreams seem to be ...

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause

By (author) Chris Oliveros
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history—the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today.
It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a ...

Roaming

"Gloriously rendered… An ode to traveling as friends when you’re both young and carefree and every new experience is exciting and wondrous.”―Robert Ito, The New York Times Book Review
Spring ...

JAJ

With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans ...

Five Stalks of Grain

By (author) Adrian Lysenko
Illustrated by Ivanka Theodosia Galadza
Categories: Historical fiction
Series: ISSN

In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and ...

Ducks

By (author) Kate Beaton
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023!
“An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.“—Carmen Maria ...

Shelterbelts

By (author) Jonathan Dick
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

Progress isn't always a straight line.

When a non-denominational megachurch opens on the edges of a rural Mennonite community, a quiet--but longstanding battle--begins to reveal itself. For years, the ...

Let Go

A story of travail and triumph, Mark Huebner's wordless novel Let Go follows a laid-off ad man struggling to carry the deadweight of his past as he labours through a blizzard toward an unknown future.

Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era

By (artist) George A. Walker
Categories: History of art

A successful actress whose work spanned 52 features, Mary Pickford helped establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the studio United Artists. She was the first woman to create her ...

Carpe Fin

This unique graphic novel, by acclaimed Indigenous artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, blends Asian manhwa/manga with the Haida artistic and oral tradition in one stunning hand-painted volume. The story ...