With these words, Ambrose Peters learns that the bedtime stories his parents told him are real.

On his twelfth birthday, he and his friends Stan and Aurora discover a curious note in the library of his home, an old estate in the heart of Toronto. When peculiar creatures start turning up, the three of them stumble on a mysterious world hidden in the wild spaces of their once-familiar city.

But Ambrose’s time is running out. With an ancient menace closing in on him, Ambrose must find the key to save himself, his friends, and the extraordinary—and dangerous—new world they only just discovered.

The Roughling is an epic adventure teeming with mystery, friendship, action, unforgettable characters and perilous secrets.

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When a young Hutterite man is found murdered in a luxurious home in the city, Detective Michael Shelter is pulled into a case like none other. To find the killer, Shelter must win the trust of a rural Hutterite colony where the faithful live apart from the outside world, following a devout way of life passed down for 500 years.

How could a leader of a strictly pacifist farming community end up murdered in an expensive rental? Does the answer lie in the city? Is it linked to a bitter land dispute that’s entangled the Hutterites? Or is the killer hiding among the members of the colony itself?

Struggling to solve this baffling case, Shelter must also contend with a crumbling relationship and the haunting aftermath of a deadly shooting. As he uncovers secrets and closes in on the killer, danger grows under the vast prairie sky.

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Whether from a failed marriage, a dead mother, or a fatal car crash, each story has some hope and redemption. There is humour too, when three kids cram into a straw-filled chicken coop to hide from an angry farmer, lighting up more than cigarettes. Or you’ll find eighty-two-year-old Nora Allen escaping from the Florence Nightingale hospital, stealing a car, and ordering a Big Mac before continuing down the King George highway to her childhood home to search for her adopted son. Cooper Reynolds is an old widow who might remarry, but first, his estranged, druggie daughter comes home to save his life.

All fourteen stories shine some light on the darkness of the human condition, and in so doing, help us to better understand ourselves, our family, friends and maybe even our enemies. Driving Crazy to the Front Door takes us right up close to loss—not for self-pity or despair, but to offer hope, and reminds us of what it means to be human.

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October 4, 1957: The launch of Sputnik—a piece of orbital space junk that goes “beep beep”—kicks off a battle for celestial supremacy between the USSR and the USA, rival superpowers armed with massive rockets, galaxy-sized egos, and zero chill. Over the course of a decade, scientists, politicians, and regular folks on both sides of the Iron Curtain grapple with the big questions: How do you convince a dog to volunteer for a one-way trip into orbit? Wouldn’t it be easier to just fake the whole “moon landing” thing in a movie studio? And how are we supposed to sell commemorative T-shirts and coffee mugs if we don’t get a sweet logo designed ASAP?

Writer Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau (Vampire Cousins) and artist Francis Desharnais (Art Wars) blast off on a ridiculous, irreverent, and utterly un-factual journey through the twists and turns of the Space Race. Across a series of hilarious episodes, the duo takes aim at the excesses of capitalism, the dark side of communism, and the questionable wisdom of launching billions of dollars into the void. The Conquest of the Cosmos is a withering satire of politics, ideology, and human ambition that couldn’t be more relevant to our current moment.

Fans of Tom Gauld, Kate Beaton, and Monty Python will delight in the deadpan humour and minimalist illustrations in this biting comedy!

Winner of the BDGest’Arts Award for Best Comic!

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A stardust boy cuts a hole in the sky and wakes up in Aqueous—a utopia of radical faerie magic, far from Earth’s violent dominions, searching for healing and liberation. Framed by the 10 Days of Celestial Bodies, the stories follow N.E.W.T. through a looping energy blueprint tuned to seasons, planets, and stars, where pleasure and spellwork sit beside discipline, dialogue, and the underworld pull of transformation. But the book never floats above lived reality. It keeps returning to what the narrator names as money game, to the ways nature is stolen, displaced, and made unreachable, and to the psychic residue this leaves behind. In response, Aqueous reaches for a different way of being: sensorial, embodied, and fiercely attentive to the natural world, where comfort is a practice and belonging is something you make with others, again and again.

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