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Author Kawika Guillermo charts their journey to self-acceptance through virtual realms and tumultuous times in their memoir “Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games.”

Do you know who gave Canadian women the right to maternity leave? Who fought to have Canadian women seen as people in the eyes of the law? In her latest book, “Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada”, Karin Wells brings readers into the legal trials and personal tribulations of the women who made Canadian legal history.

In “Smartphone Nation: Why We’re All Addicted to Our Screens and What You and Your Family Can Do About It,” Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr pulls back the curtain on the systems engineered to capture our attention and challenges readers to rethink what a healthy digital life really looks like.

When journalist and cartoonist Gabrielle Drolet’s hands first started hurting, she thought she could push through the pain, but it never went away. Her debut memoir, “Look Ma, No Hands” explores life with chronic pain — and a healthy sense of humour.

Award-winning author Madeleine Thien challenges society’s reliance on memory and the distortion of truth from those in power in her new philosophical novel “The Book of Records.”

What happens when the stories we’re told about where we come from are full of holes and half truths? In her memoir, “Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home,” Brittany Penner joins forces with her past selves to search for the truth about where she really comes from and who she is.

How do you survive the end of the world? In her debut memoir “Apocalypse Child” Carly Butler reflects on a childhood of Y2K paranoia and religious dread. Her journey out of the isolation of the BC wilderness is a gentle reminder that surviving life’s personal armageddons requires community, not canned goods — a timely message for our conspiracy-ridden, politically divided world.

In her debut book, “Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas,” Gloria Blizzard seeks answers to questions about being a Black woman of multiple heritages.

As AI makes our modern world ever weirder, this dream-like novel gets more relevant. Ben Berman Ghan’s debut novel “The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits” gives AI a soul — without skimping on the action.

In “Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport,” Madeleine Orr delivers an insightful and timely perspective on the climate crisis, powerfully illustrating its impact on the world of sports and urging action for sustainable practices and protection of our planet.

In his cutting 2024 memoir “Crooked Teeth,” Syrian-Canadian author Danny Ramadan chronicles his tumultuous journey as a queer writer, lover, and refugee across the Middle East, Africa, and Canada.

Connie Kuhns’s book “Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women’s Music and Culture” chronicles how women have shaped the music scene while working twice as hard as the men.