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  • Peacocks of Instagram: Stories

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    Finalist, 2024 Giller Prize

    Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

    An underappre

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    • Author: Rajagopalan, Deepa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1487012403
    • Language: English
  • Chrysalis: Stories

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    Winner, 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award
    Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers

    Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

    Genre-blending storie

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    • Author: Varghese, Anuja
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1487011660
    • Language: English
  • Frying Plantain

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    Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-genera

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    • Author: Reid-Benta, Zalika
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 1487005342
    • Language: English
  • Who Will Bury You?: And Other Stories

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    Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.

    Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant sto

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    • Author: Muchemwa, Chido
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 1487012462
    • Language: English
  • Venus Child Trap

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    Why is it always the tasks we avoid that grow into monsters beyond our control?

    Say hello to twelve-year-old Joshua Tate – an ordinary boy whose night of parent-free fun morphs into a terrifying ordeal

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    • Series: Ghoul School
    • Author: Deguise, Devlin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798218074739
    • Language: English
  • This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories

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    A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of t

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    • Author: Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 08 2017
    • ISBN10: 1487001274
    • Language: English
  • All the Shining People

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    Finalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award
    Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award

    Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction

    Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the s

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    • Author: Friedman, Kathy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1487010400
    • Language: English
  • The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society

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    With imaginative aplomb and abiding passion, The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society masterfully traces the deep roots of the Arab immigrant experience. These unforgettable interlocking stories follow an

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    • Author: Estima, Christine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1487012330
    • Language: English
  • The Private Apartments

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    Finalist, 2024 Alberta Literary Awards
    Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2023

    Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants — despite duty, discrimination,

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    • Author: Omar, Idman Nur
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1487011385
    • Language: English
  • Her First Palestinian

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    Finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

    Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the e

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    • Author: Teebi, Saeed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 2, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1487010877
    • Language: English
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