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On a sunbeam

Walden, Tillie, 1996-,


In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
Date Published:2018

Roxy

Shusterman, Neal,


Title on cover and title page have the R styled as the symbol for medical prescriptions. Isaac and Ivy Ramsey are the victims of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall). The wager: a contest to see who can bring their mark to a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. Drawn by what the drugs offer, tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful are Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall; and Ivy, his sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy. One will land on their feel; the other will be lost to the rave. The question is: which one?
Date Published:2021

Title on cover and title page have the R styled as the symbol for medical prescriptions. Isaac and Ivy Ramsey are the victims of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall). The wager: a contest to see who can bring their mark to a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. Drawn by what the drugs offer, tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful are Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall; and Ivy, his sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy. One will land on their feel; the other will be lost to the rave. The question is: which one?

Date Published:2021

A drop in the ocean : a novel

Taranto, Léa,


Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal. At the Residency's Ward Two, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them, including a first love, the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung-Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions.
Date Published:2025

Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal. At the Residency's Ward Two, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them, including a first love, the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung-Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions.

Date Published:2025

Songs for ghosts

Kumagai, Clara,


Seventeen-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan and is not looking forward to the excruciating awkwardness at school for the rest of term or a whole summer stuck at home with his dad, stepmom and baby brother, Benji. But then Adam discovers a diary in some boxes in the attic and is quickly enthralled by their poignant story. They were written by a young woman living in Nagasaki in 1911. Adam is enraptured by her life and loves, becoming totally absorbed in her story. And then he starts to be haunted by her ghostly presence.
Date Published:2025

Seventeen-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan and is not looking forward to the excruciating awkwardness at school for the rest of term or a whole summer stuck at home with his dad, stepmom and baby brother, Benji. But then Adam discovers a diary in some boxes in the attic and is quickly enthralled by their poignant story. They were written by a young woman living in Nagasaki in 1911. Adam is enraptured by her life and loves, becoming totally absorbed in her story. And then he starts to be haunted by her ghostly presence.

Date Published:2025

Prairie Edge : a novel

Kerr, Conor.


Meet Isidore "Ezzy" Desjarlais and Grey Ginther: two distant Métis cousins making the most of Grey's uncle's old trailer, passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between. Grey, once a passionate advocate for change, has been hardened and turned cynical by an activist culture she thinks has turned performative and lazy. One night, though, she has a revelation, and enlists Ezzy, who is hopelessly devoted to her but eager to avoid the authorities after a life in and out of the group home system and jail, for a bold yet dangerous political mission: capture a herd of bison from a national park and set them free in downtown Edmonton, disrupting the churn of settler routine. But as Grey becomes increasingly single-minded in her newfound calling, their act of protest puts the pair and those close to them in peril, with devastating and sometimes fatal consequences.
Date Published:2024

Meet Isidore "Ezzy" Desjarlais and Grey Ginther: two distant Métis cousins making the most of Grey's uncle's old trailer, passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between. Grey, once a passionate advocate for change, has been hardened and turned cynical by an activist culture she thinks has turned performative and lazy. One night, though, she has a revelation, and enlists Ezzy, who is hopelessly devoted to her but eager to avoid the authorities after a life in and out of the group home system and jail, for a bold yet dangerous political mission: capture a herd of bison from a national park and set them free in downtown Edmonton, disrupting the churn of settler routine. But as Grey becomes increasingly single-minded in her newfound calling, their act of protest puts the pair and those close to them in peril, with devastating and sometimes fatal consequences.

Date Published:2024


Curvaceous, clever, and an avid reader, seventeen-year-old bookseller Bobby Ashton never misses a main character moment. So when it comes to asking out his crush, he plans a romantic proposal grand enough to go down in local history. Unfortunately, Bobby's very public rejection ends up posted online for the world to see.
Date Published:2025

Early days : Indigenous art from the McMichael

McMichael Canadian Art Collection,


Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael" held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, November 28, 2020-August 15, 2021; and traveling to the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, August 31, 2023-January 2, 2024; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2024-April 2024; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, May 2024-September 2024; and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, October 2024-May 2025. Exhibition curated by Sarah Milroy. A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine, Early Days gathers the insights of myriad Indigenous cultural stakeholders, informing us on everything from goose hunting techniques, to the history of Northwest Coast mask making, to the emergence of the Woodland style of painting and printmaking, to the challenges of art making in the Arctic, to the latest developments in contemporary art by Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. Splendidly illustrated, Early Days not only tells the story of a leading collection but traces the emergence and increasing participation of many Indigenous artists in the contemporary art world. This publication will be the largest in the history of the McMichael, and represents a vital acknowledgment of the place of Indigenous art and ways of knowing in global art history.
Date Published:2023

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael" held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, November 28, 2020-August 15, 2021; and traveling to the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, August 31, 2023-January 2, 2024; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2024-April 2024; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, May 2024-September 2024; and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, October 2024-May 2025. Exhibition curated by Sarah Milroy. A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine, Early Days gathers the insights of myriad Indigenous cultural stakeholders, informing us on everything from goose hunting techniques, to the history of Northwest Coast mask making, to the emergence of the Woodland style of painting and printmaking, to the challenges of art making in the Arctic, to the latest developments in contemporary art by Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. Splendidly illustrated, Early Days not only tells the story of a leading collection but traces the emergence and increasing participation of many Indigenous artists in the contemporary art world. This publication will be the largest in the history of the McMichael, and represents a vital acknowledgment of the place of Indigenous art and ways of knowing in global art history.

Date Published:2023

Jujutsu kaisen. 17, Perfect preparation /

Akutami, Gege, 1992-


Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "First published in Japan in 2018 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo"--Title page verso. To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! Hunted down by Okkotsu and on the brink of death, Itadori recalls a troubling family scene from his past. But why is the former form of Noritoshi Kamo there? As the sorcerers begin to take action toward suppressing the lethal culling game, Maki pays the Zen'in clan a visit...
Date Published:2022

Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "First published in Japan in 2018 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo"--Title page verso. To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! Hunted down by Okkotsu and on the brink of death, Itadori recalls a troubling family scene from his past. But why is the former form of Noritoshi Kamo there? As the sorcerers begin to take action toward suppressing the lethal culling game, Maki pays the Zen'in clan a visit...

Date Published:2022

Dandelion

Liew, Jamie Chai Yun.


When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth. Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging.
Date Published:2022

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth. Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging.

Date Published:2022

Under the whispering door

Klune, TJ,


Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. A story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
Date Published:2023

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. A story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.

Date Published:2023

Haywaas' question : what is reconciliation?

Reid, Erica Jean,


After Haywaas sees his parents get frustrated while watching the news, this precocious 12-year-old begins a months-long journey navigating many different answers to what he thought was a simple question. Expertly crafted by a teacher-parent-author duo, Haywaas' Question is relatable, understandable, and aptly builds up to an answer we're all a part of. Content includes tough topics including racism.
Date Published:2023

After Haywaas sees his parents get frustrated while watching the news, this precocious 12-year-old begins a months-long journey navigating many different answers to what he thought was a simple question. Expertly crafted by a teacher-parent-author duo, Haywaas' Question is relatable, understandable, and aptly builds up to an answer we're all a part of. Content includes tough topics including racism.

Date Published:2023

Bone. 1, Out from Boneville /

Smith, Jeff, 1960-


Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn.
Date Published:2005

Well-behaved Indian women

Dave, Saumya,


"Readers Guide Included"--page 4 of cover. This is a mother-daughter tale about three generations of women, Simran, Nandini, and Mimi, who strive to find their identities while pursuing their dreams. Simran, feeling judged by her mother Nandini, starts questioning her future when a journalist enters her life. Nandini, having endured much for her children, realizes she’s lost herself in trying to be the perfect woman. Mimi, regretful of her past mistakes with Nandini, seeks to support Simran and keep the family connected.
Date Published:2020

"Readers Guide Included"--page 4 of cover. This is a mother-daughter tale about three generations of women, Simran, Nandini, and Mimi, who strive to find their identities while pursuing their dreams. Simran, feeling judged by her mother Nandini, starts questioning her future when a journalist enters her life. Nandini, having endured much for her children, realizes she’s lost herself in trying to be the perfect woman. Mimi, regretful of her past mistakes with Nandini, seeks to support Simran and keep the family connected.

Date Published:2020

Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

Gilbert, Sophie (Sophie G.)


Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.
Date Published:2025

Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.

Date Published:2025

Bakuman. 3, Debut and impatience /

Ohba, Tsugumi,


Reads from right to left. Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? After losing to manga genius Eiji Nizuma, Moritaka and Akito make it their mission to beat this rival-- even going to far as to ignore their eidtor's wishes! But will this decision ultimately help or harm their cause?
Date Published:2011

Reads from right to left. Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? After losing to manga genius Eiji Nizuma, Moritaka and Akito make it their mission to beat this rival-- even going to far as to ignore their eidtor's wishes! But will this decision ultimately help or harm their cause?

Date Published:2011

#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women


Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being an Indigenous woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
Date Published:2017

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being an Indigenous woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.

Date Published:2017

Hot gimmick

Aihara, Miki.



Date Published:2001

Pelé

Buckley, James, 1963-



Date Published:2007

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Hooper, Emma,


Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
Date Published:2015

My hero academia. 1, Izuku Midoriya : origin /

Horikoshi, Kohei, 1986-


Translation of: Boku no hiro akademia. Pages read from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks" at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny.
Date Published:2015

Translation of: Boku no hiro akademia. Pages read from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks" at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny.

Date Published:2015

Most Circulated Titles

On a sunbeam

Roxy

A drop in the ocean : a novel

Songs for ghosts

Prairie Edge : a novel

Recommended reading

Early days : Indigenous art from the McMichael

Jujutsu kaisen. 17, Perfect preparation /

Dandelion

Under the whispering door

Haywaas' question : what is reconciliation?

Bone. 1, Out from Boneville /

Well-behaved Indian women

Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

Bakuman. 3, Debut and impatience /

#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women

Hot gimmick

Pelé

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

My hero academia. 1, Izuku Midoriya : origin /