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Pantone Colour of the Year 2026: Cloud Dancer
Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2026 is Cloud Dancer—an airy neutral that inspires calm skies, softness, and quiet clarity. We’ve gathered eight reads whose covers fit just right with this gentle hue, or are beautifully complemented by it.
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Bebías Into ?hndaa Ke
$28.00Bebías Into ?hndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community is a powerful collection of essays, stories and conversations that provide us with a diverse roadmap for navigating and overcoming hate, supporting queer Indigenous kin, and revitalizing radical ethics of care for building healthy, inclusive, and self-determining lands and communities. A celebration of trans, queer, and Two-Spirit Indigenous brilliance, with an intentional inclusion of voices from the North (the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Inuvialuit and Nunatsiavut), the essays in this collection offer a wealth of queer Indigenous theory, experience, and practices, with a unique emphasis on the critical role of land in these conversations.
The contributors, who range from young activists, artists, families, and both emerging and established scholars, provide insightful and transformative queer perspectives on a number of pertinent topics, including: knowledge reclamation, resurgence, nation-building, community life and governance, cultural revitalization, belonging, family relationships, creative practice, environmental degradation, mental health and wellbeing, youth empowerment, and Indigenous pedagogy. Amidst the ongoing violence of settler colonization, and its legacies of exclusion and erasure that continue to target queer, gender-diverse and Two-Spirit Indigenous people, this collection is an invaluable gift and resource for our communities, showing us that a different world is possible, and reminding us that queer Indigenous people have always belonged on the land and in community.
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Deep Breaths of the Inanimate
$22.95In this captivating collection, readers embark on a journey through the extraordinary yet everyday lives of characters who traverse unexpected and uncharted paths, each story a vivid exploration of the human experience, driven by the emotion and desire that resonate deeply within us all. A newborn, fragile and innocent, is dramatically entrusted to the merciless waves of the sea. Three women find themselves ensnared by relics from their pasts—objects gifted by former lovers—that bind them in ways they cannot escape, challenging their identities and futures. The struggles of an imprisoned refugee unfold in a gripping tale of resilience in the face of despair, where hope flickers like a distant star. A lottery winner, basked in the glow of fortune, faces the harsh reality of loss as her life crumbles in ways she never anticipated. And a grieving son delves into the hidden truths of his mother’s tumultuous past, uncovering secrets that reshape his understanding of family and legacy. These are just a few of the eclectic and offbeat tales woven together in Deep Breaths of the Inanimate, each revealing the intricacies of love, loss, and the unpredictable nature of existence, leaving readers to reflect on the profound impact of choices and the paths we walk in search of meaning and connection.
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Fruit Salad
$19.95A delicious collection of slice-of-life comics that’s sure to delight!
Experience cartoonist Cathon’s hectic trials and tribulations through the short comics in this juicy collection. Whether we find her slurping down a piña colada at her fave tiki bar, meeting oddball fans at a comic book festival, road-tripping with her pals, or simply strolling the streets of Montreal, Cathon always manages to find the sublime in everyday life. Mix in some wild flights of fantasy, a splash of adorable childhood memories, and the occasional good cry, and you’ve got the recipe for a laugh-out-loud book that will make you feel like you’re hanging out with your newest, funniest friend!
Fans of Kate Beaton, Lisa Hanawalt, Gemma Correll, and Lynda Barry will devour Cathon’s Fruit Salad!
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In a Riptide
$23.95FEATURED ON CBC’S FRESH AIR WITH DAVID COOPER
Funny while serious, wise without being certain, full of feeling and yet rinsed of sentimentality.
The characters in Ronna Bloom’s new collection In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, generous, preoccupied, horny, astonished, and sometimes free. Emily Dickinson and Bukowski show up in the same poem. The Buddha has a shower. And Sisyphus is released from his burdens. It’s the hospital meets the circus. Here, humour, darkness, and ecstasy mingle, and the chaos doesn’t stop. But there’s breath in these poems. There’s life.
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In Seven Days
$18.95In Seven Days is a poignant, timely, and deeply funny play that explores the complexities of family, choice, and mortality through the lens of Jewish traditions. Set in a small Ontario town, the story centres on Sam, a man in his sixties who, after learning his cancer has returned and is terminal, chooses to pursue medically assisted death. His daughter Rachel, a lawyer dealing with her own personal struggles, returns home to confront the emotional weight of his decision. Rachel soon finds herself in conflict with Shelley, Sam’s meticulous partner and caretaker. As tensions rise, Rachel seeks solace from Eli, a rabbi and long-time family friend, hoping he might help change her father’s mind. But Eli is torn between his religious beliefs and his love for Sam–and then Darren, Rachel’s ex, arrives on the scene with an agenda of his own.
Each character faces their fears, desires, and regrets, culminating in a powerful exploration of love, loss, and duty. Filled with humour and heartbreak, In Seven Days captures the profound emotional journey of saying goodbye.
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Lily
$29.99“Pass Me By feels like something David Bowie would have created if he made comics instead of music: original. Ahead of its time. Utterly addictive.” – The Comics Journal
Exploring family, loss, tragedy, identity, and self-discovery, the third book in the award winning Pass Me By series, Lily, is a heartfelt tale about how our stories carry through time, and how we come to terms with change.
17 year old trans girl Lily, visits her estranged grandfather Ed, as he struggles with his rapidly developing Alzheimers. Lily too, faces struggles of her own.
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Sacred Rage
$24.95“A writer only feels like a writer when in the act. And the will, I said, is never enough . . . Where does inspiration, that sacred rage, originate? Maybe it’s just a matter of stubbornly starting something new and writing your way into the slot.”—Steven Heighton
In the years before his unexpected death, returning to short fiction after a long absence, Steven Heighton wrote to his longtime editor John Metcalf to say that he understood that the short story marked his most important contribution to literature, and that “after the novels, rereading and writing short stories again felt like returning home.” In the fifteen stories taken from across his four collections, Sacred Rage offers us Heighton as the moral explorer of the global suburbs, as chronicler of our innermost stories of love and fear, sleeping and waking, of a rebel “unabashedly devoted to the old pursuit,” as he once called it, “of truth and beauty.” These are stories of grace and the lack of it; of elegy and requiem; of hope and care in a world where these seem increasingly alien, stories by one of our most sharp-eyed and generous writers, whether you’re discovering them for the first time, or once again.
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What to Feel, How to Feel
$21.95In What to feel, how to feel, Shane Neilson dazzles in the lyric essay form. 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.