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Spaced!
$22.95“Only fifty Earthlings remain in the galaxy, and I hate every one of them.”
Sha-ne, a Martian teen, finds herself floating in a tin can high above Mars on the day everything blew up—literally. She should be apprenticing to become a master engineer, a most coveted position only awarded to exceptional minds by the mysterious Board, who governs the colony on the red planet. Martians develop the technology that runs the colony, but Earthlings are kept separate, used only for manual labour. That’s how it’s always been.
Sha-ne was just getting settled on the engineering ship with her AI companion, about to meet her mentor and the only other Martian on board, when the colony on Mars burns to the ground, wiping out her entire civilization.
Now Sha-ne has no choice but to join a group of Earthlings who’ve taken command of the ship, for all of them to survive. Only, she’s not sure she can trust Earthlings to do anything right. Especially these rebels.
As Sha-ne and the rebels search other dead cryo ships for supplies, they learn more about the truth behind the disaster that befell the colony and come to realize…
…nothing is as it seems.
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The Cypher
$20.00Penner had always considered his life ordinary-but when his lover Chess receives a divine revelation that can’t be explained, he finds himself on the run from mysterious forces.
Upending their idyllic life in a small town, Chess propels them on a journey to find answers to deep questions that plague his thoughts and his sanity.
Partnering with Fred, a boisterous sky pirate with an enigmatic past, they head out to find the answers they need on her airship. But the closer they get to their mysterious destination, the more danger they find themselves in.
Facing betrayals, battles and a malevolent being that seems to be hunting them, soon they find themselves deep into conspiracies that threaten the very fabric of their reality.
With their wits, their ship and a spot of tea, their quest for answers will make them confront the forces that created the universe.
With only each other, will their love be enough to save them?
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The Face in the Marsh
$20.00Kenzie is twenty-five, with two degrees and no job prospects. When her parents offer her a job curating their museum, Ettenby’s Log Palace, she accepts out of desperation, despite their history of family conflict. She arrives in the small Ontario town praying that her secrets will stay buried, and her hard-won mental health won’t relapse. Once at the Log Palace, Kenzie is fascinated by an unsettling collection of junk dolls found on the property. As she follows the thread left by the collection, she discovers a history of poltergeist activity, witchcraft and death on the small island housing the museum.
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The Ground That Grows Roses
$20.00More Singers have risen, and they’re about to unleash chaos.
Denny has put her father to rest, solved the mystery of the screamers and become a national hero. On the surface, she is living a dream, but her problems are far from over. In order to end the screamer crisis, she and Verity will need to find more singers to help calm the restless dead, but so far none have been found.
Meanwhile, in downtown Hamilton, a traumatized teen named Tessa and Lorian, an out-of-luck musician, discover singing through a friend’s death, but as they use their powers, they leave a trail of chaos and destruction behind them. In order to win them as allies, Denny will have to find a way to reach Tessa before she self-destructs under the weight of her past, but Denny is still struggling with demons of her own.
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The Infinite Heist
$22.95When one of their closest allies disappears, without a trace and in impossible circumstances, the Maverick Heart crew is soon on the trail. But they’re already at a disadvantage, for one of their own has gone missing too, leaving them with only the merest of clues to unravel the mystery.
The race is on to solve the baffling disappearances, running from the loneliest, coldest corners of space into the heart of human civilization. And beyond.
Now it’s up to Vrick and the crew to find out who’s pulling the strings and bring the lost home safely. If they can.
For their investigation soon reveals that they and their vanished friends are merely pawns in a vast and diabolical plot that threatens to tear through worlds across the Pan Galactum and across the walls of reality itself.
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The Smell of Rain
$22.99Each family has their story, and each one is different, depending on who tells it. Fighting encroaching darkness, Alice chronicles her own story, one of love, loss, and learning how to piece it all back together. These deeply personal entries weave their way through past and present, spinning a kaleidoscopic and increasingly fragmented narrative.
“No matter who we are or what kind of life we lead, we are always alone in the end,” writes Alice.
Both delicate and iridescent, The Smell of Rain is bound to make you think: how will you fare when you see the gossamer thread of life begin to fray?
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There’s No Place
$25.00What is home? Is it a place, a person, a memory, a sensation?
These stories, written by storytellers who have experienced homelessness, take you around the block, around the world, and out into the wider universe. But in the end, they always bring you back home.
From adventurous to everyday, from absurd to heartfelt, these tales are a mosaic of home as uncertainty, as longing, and as hope.
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Turn to Burn
$26.95Nike’s bones burn to save the city.
Seventeen-year-old Nike stalks Toronto’s streets by night, hunting raitgur—alien land squids that slither through shadows, infecting the vulnerable.
Her father wields Burner fire to destroy them, but the spark, that comes from her. He burns Nike’s fingers like wicks, stealing her flame to fuel his war.
She hates it. Hates him.
But the raitgur took everything. Her mother. Her sister. So if setting herself on fire is the price of vengeance, she’ll pay it.
Except the burns are getting worse. Her father’s power is guttering. The city’s infection is spreading. And Nike wonders how much more she can take. Isn’t it her turn to burn?
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Unstable Graves
$22.95Erin Rine is caught in continuous peril while investigating the concealed murders. She plows her way through mud and bear country in her large, Northern Ontario community to care for patients, over time finding more than one partially buried body.
The surrounding earth of both town and forest becomes saturated with the steady, spring rains, causing the muddy ground to erratically move in a compulsive, sometimes deadly slide. Will a persistent and indiscriminate murderer lure Erin toward further danger and cause the sodden earth to swallow her and others, some of them not so innocent, into a surplus of obscure graves?
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We Shall Be Monsters
$25.00“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s genre-changing book Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus helped to shape the genres of science fiction and horror, and helped to articulate new forms for women’s writing. It also helped us to think about the figure of the outsider, to question medical power, to question ideas of “normal,” and to think about what we mean by the word “monster.” Derek Newman-Stille has teamed up with Renaissance Press to celebrate Frankenstein’s 200th birthday by creating a book that explores Frankenstein stories from new and exciting angles and perspectives.
We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Two Centuries On features a broad range of fiction stories by authors from around the world, ranging from direct interactions with Shelley’s texts to explorations of the stitched, assembled body and narrative experiments in monstrous creations. We Shall Be Monsters collects explorations of disability, queer and trans identity, and ideas of race and colonialism.
With stories by Day Al-Mohamed, Lena Ng, Ashley Caranto Morford Cait Gordon, JF Garrard, Andrew Wilmot, Evelyn Deshane, D. Simon Turner, Kaitlin Tremblay, Lisa Carreiro Eric Choi & Joseph McGinty, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Randall G. Arnold, Alex Acks, KC Grifant, Halli Lilburn, Kev Harrison, Corey Redekop, Arianna Verbree, Max D. Stanton, Victoria K. Martin, Priya Sridhar, Liam Hogan, Joshua Bartolome
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Whispers Between Fairies
$20.00Fairy tales have grown with us over history and changed over the years to capture the human experience. Yet, we often trap fairy tales in the past, calling them “tradition”, and it means that certain tales don’t get told. Nathan Frechette and Derek Newman-Stille bring out new tales from the old, telling stories from the voices that often aren’t heard.
Whispers Between Fairies is a conversation between two authors who love fairy tales and each author takes their own path to find the hidden possibilities for each fairy tale. These are tales of beauty and enchantment… but they are also tales of darkness and secrecy, much like the original fairy tales. They are echoes of the past, but also firm reminders of the magnificent diversity of the present, exploring Queer, Trans, Disabled, and Mad experiences.
Sit back and let our words be a spell that brings you to worlds of enchantment.
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Whispers Between Fairies
$25.00Fairy tales have grown with us over history and changed over the years to capture the human experience. Yet, we often trap fairy tales in the past, calling them “tradition”, and it means that certain tales don’t get told. Nathan Frechette and Derek Newman-Stille bring out new tales from the old, telling stories from the voices that often aren’t heard.
Whispers Between Fairies is a conversation between two authors who love fairy tales and each author takes their own path to find the hidden possibilities for each fairy tale. These are tales of beauty and enchantment… but they are also tales of darkness and secrecy, much like the original fairy tales. They are echoes of the past, but also firm reminders of the magnificent diversity of the present, exploring Queer, Trans, Disabled, and Mad experiences.
Sit back and let our words be a spell that brings you to worlds of enchantment.
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Winging It
$24.95A wedding and a summer camp that Tommy and Carter are never going to forget.
Tommy discovers magic exists, his boyfriend is a rock giant, and his sister is marrying one of the leaders of a supernatural community called Aetherborn.
Carter learns to navigate an in-person relationship, introducing Tommy to the magical world, and being involved in his Ariki’s wedding.
Both boys need to build their confidence in each other, themselves, and their relationship. The Door Tech summer camp seems to be the perfect way to do that, until they get magically transported to the not-so-fictional world of Everdome. In this realm of Domed continents floating in space, winged beasts, and new cultures, the boys will have to overcome challenges beyond anything they’ve seen before.
The only way they, and their relationship, can survive is if they start Winging It!
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You Would Have Done It Too
$22.95You know things are bad when you wished your only concern was sleepwalking off a balcony straight into a killer’s knife.
Felix’s college life was busy enough failing classes, having a gay crisis every time his best friend walked into the room and dealing with bullies.
Now said bullies are dropping like flies and contrary to campus’s popularity vote and the blood in his bathroom, he didn’t do it.
Someone’s keeping a close eye on his every interaction. If he trusts the wrong person, says the wrong thing, he might not be the only one who won’t make it to graduation.
So, yeah, college is going splendid.