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Discover #SmallPress #books: Portals: The Colours of Our Longing by Suzi Morris & Celeste Nazeli Snowber, Hurtwood Press & Doubles by Nora Gold, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Two book covers: Portals: The Colours of Our Longing by Suzi Morris & Celeste Nazeli Snowber (Hurtwood Press): Portals is a visual and poetic conversation between a painter and a poet/performance artist. Lyrical texts sit alongside images at once delicate and intense, as words and paintings enjoin the reader to consider how body and spirit can dance together. This collaboration creates something personal and universal, which brings beauty to a troubled world. Two creative artists, one based in Vancouver, one in London, come together to share a vision of sensual ways of being in the world, opening thresholds to the infinite. https://hurtwood.co.uk/art/portals-the-colours-of-our-longing/ Doubles by Nora Gold, Guernica Editions: 1968. An institution for troubled youth. A brilliant, spunky, 12-year-old girl who is obsessed with math. Engagingly written and often funny, this novella explores how a sensitive young teenager changes over a six-month period from a polite, quiet “good girl” into a delinquent. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/doubles
November 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: How it Feeds by @elijahbwilder.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social & The Chorus Beneath Our Feet by Melanie Schnell, @radiantpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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How it Feeds by Elijah B. Wilder, Little Ghosts Books: Cut off from pollinators, flowers have become dependent upon propagation via human intervention. Deep within the Free Republic of Florida remains a rare expanse of wilderness. It is rumoured one orchid may still bloom there, although no signs of bugs nor birds have been found. One question puzzles all the orchid's would-be discoverers: How does it reproduce? When Orion Rael Armijo, trans man and botany scholar ventures in search of the fabled orchid, he realizes their collective folly. What they should have been asking was: How does it feed? https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/how-it-feeds/QNAZTMWWVYV3ZIGBANBGOP62 The Chorus Beneath Our Feet by Melanie Schnell, Radiant Press: A grief-stricken soldier accompanies his best friend’s body home after eight years away, only to find his nonspeaking sister, Mary, missing and wanted for questioning by the police in the murder of an infant in the city’s central park. As Mary’s life hangs in the balance, Jes must follow the obscure clues she has left behind, the only way to find her and absolve her of wrongdoing. In his labyrinthine search, the mystery of the park’s infamous Harron tree and its connection to his sister, and their community, is slowly revealed. https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/tcbof
October 30, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications & American Moon by David W. Berner, @regalhouse.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications: Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering aboard a massive centrifugal ship. When she is thrown into the orbit of the conventional Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth finds him haughty and intolerable. But then her younger sister elopes. For all of their progress in the new society of the ship, a woman can still be ruined by an imprudent attachment. Can Elizabeth and Darcy save Lydia’s reputation, learn to like each other, and avoid being convicted of murder? https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/ or in the US, https://bookshop.org/a/96356/9781834210261 and American Moon by David W. Berner, Regal House: Austen, broken by a turbulent past, sets out on a cross-country journey to California, seeking the faint promise of a new beginning. But early on, he encounters a troubling scene—a baby left alone in a rundown roadside motel in a small Missouri town. The child’s mother, Taylor, is on her own desperate journey, battling addiction and the crushing weight of poverty in a town gripped by the opioid crisis. In a fragile attempt at redemption, Austen and Taylor forge an unlikely companionship. https://regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/american-moon/
October 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: The Small Way by Onjana Yawnghwe, @caitlinpress.bsky.social & Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good: A Neurodivergent Writer on Life and Writing by @ronaaltrows.bsky.social, Now Or Never Publishing. See alt-text for book details.

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The Small Way by Onjana Yawnghwe, Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions: What strange gravity draws two people together? What pulls them apart? In The Small Way a woman re-evaluates herself and her marriage as she comes to terms with a spouse's transition. Intimate and powerful, the poems celebrate the courage of a partner coming out as a transwoman and records the confusion in facing a partner's changing gender identity. Speaking to the tenderness that exists between two people, the book explores shifting bodies and changing emotional landscapes, and examines what it really means to love someone. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/T/The-Small-Way Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good: A Neurodivergent Writer on Life and Writing by Rona Altrows, Now Or Never Publishing: A candid, often wry collection of essays tracing one woman’s life with high anxiety, ADHD, and recurring depression—and the winding, determined path that eventually leads to a vocation as writer and editor. After years of earnest but unfulfilling jobs, she discovers that the very traits that once felt burdensome have become part of her creative engine. Told in two parts, the first offers a memoir—“All Day Long I Wondered”—chronicling the author’s struggles, stumbles, and small triumphs. The second, “Messy Process Does Not Mean Messy Result,” gathers hard-won reflections on writing and the writing life. https://nonpublishing.com/anxious-kid-makes-pretty-good
October 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Mojorhythm by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social & Playing into Silence by Tina Biello, @caitlinpress.bsky.social / Dagger Editions. See alt-text for book details.

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Mojorhythm by Sheree Renée Thomas, Third Man Books: Book one of the the three book The Root and Sky Series of short stories. This is a multigenre brew, strange and wondrous, exploring the supernatural currents of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual force and living folklore, the exquisite whimsy and profound horrors found in existence, and the boundless territories of the impossible. https://www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/mojorhythm Playing into Silence by Tina Biello, Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions: Growing up during the 50s and 60s in small town Alberta, Pam was keenly aware, by the age of nine, that she was a lesbian. And she also knew well to hide this about herself. Pam would search for books on the "The Island of Lesbos", only to return from the library with a copy of Little Women. In between the vast spaces of dust and dugouts, she grows up and grows old, playing her saxophone in deep, blaring notes. Age is a constant marker throughout these poems for an otherwise long and lonely time of waiting for queer rights, for acceptance, for love. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/P/Playing-into-Silence
October 23, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Beautiful Distance by Nao-Cola Yamazaki, translated by Charlotte Goff, Zando Projects & Beware Her Fury by Mirion Malle, @dandq.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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October 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by @garybarwin.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social & The Wind Has Robbed the Legs Off a Madwoman by Agnes Walsh, @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by Gary Barwin, Book*hug Press: Death is a comedian and devoted family man, but everything falls apart when the Fates choose him to guide departed souls to the Beneath. Having to perform this new role erodes his humanity and causes him to do some perhaps unforgivable things, and when his only son dies by suicide, Death realizes he’s likely the one to blame. Attempting the impossible, Death goes into the Beneath to beg the Fates to allow him to bring back his son. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/forthcoming/forthcoming-fall-2026/the-comedians-book-of-the-dead-by-gary-barwin/ The Wind Has Robbed the Legs Off a Madwoman by Agnes Walsh, Breakwater Books: This intimate new collection by a beloved poet at the height of her craft draws from myth, folklore, local history, and the unique dialect of Irish Newfoundland. Considering the permeable barrier between inside and outside, between self and world, these deceptively-simple poems convey wisdom and a profound depth of perception in their evocation of beauty, illness, vulnerability, and place. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/the-wind-has-robbed-the-legs-off-a-madwoman
October 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: A Cove of Witches by @nancymltaber.bsky.social, @acornpress.bsky.social & A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw, @touchwooded.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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A Cove of Witches by Nancy Taber, Acorn Press: If Simone, a clairvoyant police cadet, doesn't solve the mystery of her family's relationship with the phantom ship, the Doirons past and present will be in peril. Only Simone can break the spell and un lock their second sight. But when visions of a spectre morph from frustrating to overwhelming, Simone risks losing not only the career she craves, but her family's otherworldly abilities. She races to uncover her ancestors' secrets and lies, generations of witches surviving the unthinkable. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/a-cove-of-witches A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw, TouchWood Editions: Lane Winslow is known in her idyllic British Columbia laketown of King's Cove for a bad habit of finding dead bodies. This time, all she’s found is a suspiciously well-made hat abandoned in the brush, but she’s certain there’s a mystery afoot. https://touchwoodeditions.com/products/a-false-and-fatal-claim
October 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends by A.D. Sui, @ecwpress.bsky.social & Thorn City by @pamelastatz.bsky.social, @ooliganpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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October 15, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Even the Birds by Ruth Taylor, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social & Sackville House by Paul Nicholas Mason, Now Or Never Publishing. See alt-text for book details.

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Even the Birds by Ruth Taylor, Guernica Editions: Peace has come to Guatemala after thirty-six years of war. Isabel, a guerrilla fighter of mixed Mayan and non-Indigenous heritage, returns from battle to the daughter she left in the care of her conservative aunt many years before. Soraida, afraid to lose the child she has raised, begrudgingly welcomes her rebel niece into her home, an arrangement that forces her to question her own role in the country’s conflict. Isabel struggles to be the mother her daughter needs. Fifteen-year-old Yasmin faces problems of her own. Whether out of duty or out of love, they may yet help each other find peace—and even happiness—in their still deeply divided country. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/even-the-birds Sackville House by Paul Nicholas Mason, Now Or Never Publishing: In 1976, Michael Wycliffe—son of a troubled single mother—earns a scholarship to Trent University. Longing to escape his childhood and modest Ontario village, he is pulled into the luminous world of Colin, heir to immense wealth, whose confidence and ease seem to promise a different way of being. Woven through his journey is a quiet but insistent inquiry into faith—its comforts, its contradictions—and a tender, searching exploration of sexuality and intimacy. Sackville House is a transformative novel where love and faith illuminate, and where the self is shaped in that fragile space between who we are and who we hope to become. https://nonpublishing.com/sackville-house
October 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: This is How It Is by Sharon King-Campbell, @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social & Work Lunch by Lee Bains, @hubcitypress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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This is How It Is by Sharon King-Campbell, Breakwater Books: Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, these poems range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a compelling display of dramatic empathy and poetic imagination. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/this-is-how-it-is Work Lunch by Lee Bains, Hub City Press: In his debut poetry collection, Alabama poet and musician Lee Bains draws on his own experience at the intersection of work and food—the daily ritual of a workday lunch. https://www.hubcity.org/books/poetry/work-lunch
October 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Napier's Bones by @derrylm.bsky.social, @newestpress.bsky.social & Drawing Blood: A Paramedic Memoir by Andrew Bethune, @nimbuspub.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Napier's Bones by Derryl Murphy, NeWest Press: Dom is a numerate. He can see and control numbers. On the hunt for an item of immense power which he has only heard about in whispers, Dom must flee across continents to outrun the fall of dominos he has unwittingly begun and a numerate even stronger than he is. Finding unlikely companionship along the way and dodging fantastical creatures and numerical wonders Dom must find a way to save himself, his friends, and their way of life. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/napiers-bones Drawing Blood: A Paramedic Memoir by Andrew Bethune, Nimbus Publishing: Paramedics help people. They are proud. But there are downsides: Working night and day, spending endless hours driving endless kilometres without sleep, food, or bathroom breaks. Drawing Blood: A Paramedic Memoir is a powerful work of narrative non-fiction by debut author Andrew Bethune. It offers razor-sharp insight into the human cost for the paramedics who bear witness to the moments when lives begin, change, or end. https://nimbus.ca/store/drawing-blood-a-paramedic-memoir.html
October 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Nightnursing by @tianareid.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social & Narrow Rooms by Choi Sungmin, @dandq.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Nightnursing by Tiana Reid, Goose Lane Editions: A frenetic diary about sobriety and what recovery really means in a world where the innate need for “better” is both trauma and treatment. The poems in this nuanced collection delve into the terrible beauty of unbaked work, critical practice, and state-sanctioned care. Nightnursing simultaneously runs toward and away from reality, grappling with the gravity of memory, of remembering, of a “mind constantly rewriting what happened.” https://gooselane.com/products/nightnursing Narrow Rooms by Choi Sungmin, Drawn & Quarterly: Narrow Rooms follows a young woman who leaves her rural hometown to study in Seoul and seek self-improvement. But once there, she quickly becomes the target of unwanted attention from her teacher, and the whispers of other students only deepen her alienation. Living in a cramped, poorly soundproofed room, the suffocating atmosphere begins to further distort her boundaries and perceptions. Longing for escape, she fixates on a handsome new neighbor, her fascination spiraling into obsession: She secretly rummages through his mailbox, collects his discarded cigarette butts and teabags, and hoards his trash. But when she discovers something unsavory about the object of her desire, will she be forced to confront the morals of her own behavior? https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/narrow-rooms/
October 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Discover #SmallPress #books: One Soft Infested Summer by Matthew Heiti, @latitude46pub.bsky.social & Silencio by Clyo Mendoza, translated by Christina MacSweeney, @sevenstories.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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One Soft Infested Summer by Matthew Heiti, Latitude 46 Publishing: ‪Brothers Milo and Woe—gifted with strange psychic abilities—must confront the malevolent force threatening to consume their once idyllic neighbourhood of Kinder Hill. Children are disappearing and they can help. Fast forward to 2019, Miller Hackney—a failed writer and failing member of the human race—abandons his final novel to chase a faceless child in a green raincoat through the alleys and subway tunnels of Toronto. These two stories, seemingly worlds and decades apart, are drawn inexorably to a collision at the bottom of all labyrinths. https://store.latitude46publishing.com/products/one-soft-infested-summer Silencio by Clyo Mendoza, translated by Christina MacSweeney, Seven Stories Press: A lyrically haunting and powerful account of women surviving femicide and destruction in Mexico, using fantasy to relate atrocities that exist beyond language. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4841-silencio
October 5, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: The Lesbian Bar Chronicles by Rachel Karp, @beaconpress.bsky.social & Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen, @blacklawrence.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America's Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces by Rachel Karp, Beacon Press: Lesbian bars are so much more than a place to get a drink. For over a century, they’ve acted as community posts, political organizing grounds, and sanctuaries. Yet whereas in the 1980s there were an estimated 200 lesbian bars across the US, the current count sits at a few dozen. The author embarks across the country with her wife and best friend to chronicle the stories of the remaining US lesbian bars, and finds many of the places they visit to be thriving, their communities sustaining themselves over decades of change and challenges. https://www.beacon.org/The-Lesbian-Bar-Chronicles-P2460.aspx Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen, Black Lawrence Press: It’s a beautiful September day in Seattle, but Tiny isn’t happy. Lung damage recently ended her dream career as a wildlands firefighter, and she’s grieving the person she loved most, her grandmother. Things take a turn when a city employee arrives at Tiny’s doorstep with an unexpected proposal: become a beta-tester for a program designed to pull carbon from the atmosphere, counteracting global warming. Despite her skepticism, Tiny agrees. What ensues is stranger and more wondrous than she could have imagined—but when the city decides to abruptly end the program, Tiny must decide if she will follow orders, or if she will resist and follow her heart. https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/woman-wolf-carbon-capture/
October 3, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj, @mawenzihouse.bsky.social & Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications. See alt-text for book details.

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Book covers for 1. Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications: Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering aboard a massive centrifugal ship. When she is thrown into the orbit of the conventional Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth finds him haughty and intolerable. But then her younger sister elopes. For all of their progress in the new society of the ship, a woman can still be ruined by an imprudent attachment. Can Elizabeth and Darcy save Lydia’s reputation, learn to like each other, and avoid being convicted of murder? https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/ or in the US, https://bookshop.org/a/96356/9781834210261 and 2. A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj, Mawenzi House:‬ Beautifully crafted stories in which older men and women from the Caribbean islands confront their pasts, with regrets and wonder as they discover subtle epiphanies. The stories consider the briefness of life, not only its final outcome but the losses accumulated over the years. https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/a-quiet-disappearance/
October 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men: A Collection by Rae Wilde, @shortwavebooks.bsky.social & The Moon the Sun Forgot by B.J. Wagner, @mythicroads.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men: A Collection by Rae Wilde, Shortwave Publishing: A collection of standalone sapphic horror short stories, a quadrilogy of connected stories, and an interactive pick-a-path novelette from author Rae Wilde. Finally back in print, this edition includes a brand-new bonus story, previously unpublished. https://shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/i-do-not-apologize-for-my-position-on-men-a-collection-by-rae-wilde/ The Moon the Sun Forgot by B.J. Wagner, Mythic Roads Press: In the vast, lawless ocean beneath the thick surface ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, independent undersea miners compete against megacorporations for natural resources, and pirates hunt for unwary prey. Kassia McCullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father’s suicide. When Grant's half-brother escapes from prison, Kassia may just have her chance to capture her elusive and powerful enemy. https://www.mythicroadspress.com/themoonthesunforgot
September 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Betas by Nick Maandag, @dandq.bsky.social & A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying: Losing My Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma by @hfxwordy.bsky.social, @nimbuspub.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Betas by Nick Maandag, Drawn & Quarterly: Everyone’s favourite Streakers characters—Xavier, Doug, and Tim—return in Nick Maandag’s first full-length graphic novel, Betas. The three friends work in a restaurant together and are desperately trying to find Ms. Right. Tim’s too shy to make any headway, Doug’s constantly putting his foot in his mouth, and Xavier is too pig-headed to even listen to what people are saying. Bad-faith arguments and poorly planned schemes tumble after each other in this pitch black comedy of manners from one of the most gifted satirists in comics. https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/betas/ A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying: Losing My Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma by Michelle Hébert, Nimbus Publishing: On paper, Michelle Hébert was a successful, high-functioning woman. A former social worker turned government executive, a mother of two, a wife, a published author. But there was a secret about her that nobody knew—one that her own brain was trying to keep from her. One that was destroying her from the inside out. Why couldn’t she recognize herself in mirrors? Why did her mind disconnect from her body for long periods? A mystery disguised as a memoir, this deeply layered story of complex trauma is a heartbreaking, darkly humorous, and redemptive story of resilience, and a compelling testament to the lengths our brains will go to protect us. https://nimbus.ca/store/a-good-girls-guide-to-lying-losing-my-memory-searching-for-truth-confronting-complex-trauma.html
September 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: When It’s Darkness on the Delta by W. Ralph Eubanks, @beaconpress.bsky.social & The Younger and Other Stories by Daniel J. O'Malley, @hubcitypress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land by W. Ralph Eubanks, Beacon Press: A socioeconomic excavation of the oft-mythologized Mississippi Delta, the poorest region of the United States, which unearths gangrenous roots of white supremacy and systemic racism. https://www.beacon.org/When-Its-Darkness-on-the-Delta-P2243.aspx The Younger and Other Stories by Daniel J. O'Malley, Hub City Press: The stories in this haunting debut capture the moments when circumstances shift, when life drifts off course, when the ordinary gradually–sometimes suddenly–dissolves and offers a glimpse at how truly strange this world might be. https://www.hubcity.org/books/fiction/the-younger-and-other-stories
September 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed, @igpublishing.bsky.social & My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden, @newvesselpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden, New Vessel Press: A dazzling debut novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim patriarchal norms and a debilitating neurological condition. The mysterious affliction leaves her unable to control her muscles, plagued by pain and speech disorders, defying diagnosis. Addressing each body part with the scrupulousness of a medical researcher, the narrator explores memories, traditions, and taboos related to her physical self. https://newvesselpress.com/books/my-dreadful-body/ Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed, Ig Publishing: An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience, and self-discovery are passed down through generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family. Celeste Mohammed’s second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small, is a family saga that spans from the days of the British Raj in India to multicultural modern Trinidad. Written in a blend of Standard English and several flavors of Trinidad Kriol, the book follows the bloodline of a young woman, Jayanti, after her decision to become a girmitiya, an indentured laborer in the Caribbean. https://www.igpub.com/ever-since-we-small/
September 24, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife by Erica Wright, @blacklawrence.bsky.social & Green by Zachari Logan, @radiantpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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1. A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife by Erica Wright, Black Lawrence Press: Public pools shuttered for storms. Game shows for endangered species. The teeth of a fine snail. A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife began for poet Erica Wright as a response to archival images from the American Museum of Natural History. Imagine discovering so many new species in the 16th century, then losing so many in the 21st. The poems in Wright’s new collection consider the beauty and fragility of ecosystems, some turning inward, to the animalness of the human body. https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-buyers-guide-to-the-afterlife/ and 2. Green by Zachari Logan, Radiant Press: An exciting new collection of ekphrastic poems accompanied by a compilation of green sketches via the lens of a queer poet and visual artist. Zachari Logan carried a sketchbook as he travelled the world and responded to iconic artwork as well as art that once existed but is now lost, destroyed, or far away. Whimsical art and thoughtful poems that ponder the nature of existence. https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/green
September 22, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Dave the Space Pet by Rory AB Forrest, @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social & Who by His Own Hand by Greg Rhyno, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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1. Who by His Own Hand by Greg Rhyno, Cormorant: Single mother and reluctant detective Dame Polara just wants to keep her family safe. When her two-year-old daughter is kidnapped by her old nemesis, she is forced to draw on her unusual talents to rescue Rosie. To make matters worse, Dame’s dad — retired private eye Dodge Polara — is hospitalized after suffering a second stroke, and Dame uncovers a strange connection between her mother’s murder and the apparent suicide of a former city counsellor. But when Dame learns that Rosie’s abduction is part of a larger criminal conspiracy, she may be forced to betray her own ideals to save her family. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/W/Who-by-His-Own-Hand and 2. Dave the Space Pet by Rory AB Forrest, Unsolicited Press: The story of a painfully nerdy accountant who, on a rare night out with his few friends, is abducted by aliens straight from the bathroom stall of a dive bar—and, without realizing it, becomes their pet. https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dave-the-space-pet
September 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: The Art of Getting Lost and Found by @writebrain.bsky.social, @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social & Here's to Letting Go by Blaine Thornton, @latitude46pub.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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September 18, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social & A Thousand Consolations by Julie Roorda, @touchwooded.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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1. I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, Nightwood Editions: Prolific Kwantlen writer Joseph Dandurand offers his latest poetry collection, following The Punishment and The East Side of It All, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Building on his legacy as a skilled storyteller, Dandurand continues to write about trauma, love, grief and forgiveness. These poems are about the streets, the East Side, self-pity, spirits and Dandurand’s people. https://nightwoodeditions.com/products/9780889714908 2. A Thousand Consolations by Julie Roorda, TouchWood Editions: Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from unrequited love to ingrown toenails; it’s just a business she started after her husband’s untimely death. Then she meets Héctor, a former concert pianist seeking refuge from the Mexican narcos who severed his fingers and threatened worse. Paula begins to believe that love is a possibility after all. But will Héctor be allowed to remain in Canada, or be sent back to an unknown fate? https://touchwoodeditions.com/products/a-thousand-consolations
September 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Discover #SmallPress #books: Beckoning by Hollie Adams, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social & The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice, @auntlute.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details.

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Book covers for 1. The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice, Aunt Lute Books: The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades-old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors. At eleven years old, the peculiar Emily does not fit in. It might be her bizarre fear of doorways, or the strange illnesses that plague her, or the obvious fact that she is not a blood relative of her mother. Regardless, Emily’s arrival to Larissa, Texas, changes the search for the missing children and the way the women of Larissa relate to each other. https://www.auntlute.com/the-divining-season ‪ and 2. Beckoning by Hollie Adams, Guernica Editions: How do you become your best self in what feels like the worst of worlds? Both probing and playful, the poems in this collection are interested in what it means to be a good person while trying to survive late capitalism. Is it our intentions or our actions which make us “good”? Is it enough to try to do better, or must our trying accomplish something? The speakers of these poems are often looking for better versions of themselves, imagining other selves within themselves, and seeking out alternate worlds in which they are themselves but new and improved. Out October 2026. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/beckoning
September 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM