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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS • One of Indigo's Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once…

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If you’re a dour biblical literalist, Anthony Oliveira’s Dayspring may not be for you. But if your conception of the divine is expansive enough to contain multitudes, this cheeky, earthy, mystical, queer, wildly poetic postmodern riff on the gospels might be the delight you’ve been looking for.

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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

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German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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