A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for July 2022.
A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for July 2022.
Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reich’s best-selling crime books, starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, return in this 21st novel in the series. This time, Tempe becomes involved in a case involving a box containing a human eyeball and a series of shady murders similar to previous murders she’s solved. Things get even more complicated when her own daughter disappears in the middle of the case.
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Reichs is a forensic anthropologist, academic, and best-selling crime writer with more than 20 novels. Her best-selling mystery series about forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan was adapted into the hit television show Bones.
Sunday edition30:30Bone detective Kathy Reichs on her 18th novelForensic anthropologist and bestselling author Kathy Reichs on her latest book Speaking in Bones.
Sunday edition30:30Bone detective Kathy Reichs on her 18th novel
Road to Nowhere by Paris Marx
Road to Nowhere is a non-fiction book about how Silicon Valley’s technological vision of the future – including automated electric vehicles and the ubiquity of ride-hailing services – is potentially flawed and a threat to a prosperous future. On the same subject : Petaluma Summer Arts Roundup. The author Paris Marx examines ideas of how safety and sustainability of future travel concepts could look like.
When you can read it: July 5, 2022
Paris Marx is a socialist writer and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. They also write for NBC News, Jacobin and Tribune.
Some Maintenance Required by Marie-Renée Lavoie, translated by Arielle Aaronson
It’s 1993 and Laurie’s senior year. She works part-time in a restaurant and takes care of her neglected neighbor named Cindy. Read also : 10 classical music games to attend this summer. Laurie devours books and dreams big, but struggles to keep her car running. As she experiences a budding romance, Laurie’s eyes open to a more complicated world of class differences and circumstances beyond her control.
Some Maintenance Required is a humorous coming-of-age story about taking responsibility and mastering your life.
When you can read it: July 5, 2022
Marie-Renée Lavoie is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the author of three other books including A Boring Wife Settles the Score, Autopsy of a Boring Wife and Mister Roger and Me (La petite et le vieux in French), which was published in 2012 with Les combat des livres ‘ was awarded by Radio Canada.
Arielle Aaronson is a French to English translator of novels, films and more. She has previously translated Marie-Renée Lavoie’s A Boring Wife Settles the Score and Autopsy of a Boring Wife. Aaronson lives in Montreal with her family.
Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic
This first collection of short stories by Nada Alic examines the lives of women from many walks of life as they navigate the modern world. Bad Thoughts explores the nature of reality, love and desire in a world full of people trying to get by and fit in.
When you can read it: July 12, 2022
Based in Los Angeles and Toronto, Nada Alic writes about art, design and nurturing a creative practice. Her feature film series, Future You, a collaboration with visual artist Andrea Nakhla, has been featured in Urban Outfitters, Nasty Gal and Cool Hunting, It’s Nice That, Metatron, and more. Alic was shortlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize for The Intruder.
An Orchid Astronomy by Tasnuva Hayden
An Orchid Astronomy follows Sophie, who lives in northern Norway as climate change takes hold. The ice is melting, the animals are dying and Sophie’s mother is dead. The experimental poetry of An Orchid Astronomy grapples with the sadness we feel at the loss of loved ones and the changing world.
When you can read it: July 15, 2022
Tasnuva Hayden is a Calgary-based writer of Bengali descent. She is the fiction editor at Filling Station, a Canadian experimental literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Nōd Magazine, J’aipur Journal, Anti-Lang, carte blanche, Qwerty and more.
The Sugar Thief by Nancy Mauro
The Sugar Thief is a novel with comedy, melodramas, baked goods and a secret recipe. It centers on Sabine Rose, a successful social media influencer with a successful baking channel, who returns home to visit her family, who own an Italian bakery. But when her father dies, things descend into tragedy and farce as her family tries to pick up the pieces.
When you can read it: July 19, 2022
Nancy Mauro is a New York City-based writer, author, and former creative director of advertising. Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, she has lived and worked in Toronto and Vancouver, where she was a fellow and a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA program in creative writing. Her debut novel New World Monkeys was published in 2010.
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Set in 19th-century Mexico, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s latest novel incorporates elements of the supernatural as it reinterprets the classic The Island of Doctor Moreau. Carlota Moreau is a young woman living on an estate safe from the conflict and unrest in the Yucatán Peninsula. Carlota’s father is the eccentric Doctor Moreau, a man whose scientific experiments created the hybrids – part human, part animal monstrosities. Carlota lives in the jungle and is trapped in this world full of mysteries and horrors.
When you can read it: July 19, 2022
Born and raised in Mexico, Moreno-Garcia is the B.C. Author of the novels Signal to Noise, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Untamed Shore, The Beautiful Ones, and Velvet was the Night. She is also a critic and editor of science fiction anthologies.
The Next Chapter18:03Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Mexican GothicSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel Mexican Gothic follows an heiress’ investigations into her cousin’s hasty marriage and mysterious illness.
The next chapter18:03Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Mexican Gothic
Vicious Creatures by Ashton Noone
Vicious Creatures is a novel that combines thriller and horror literature. Ava is in the midst of a violent separation from her spouse and flees town with her daughter. She soon learns you can’t go home, and Ava’s repressed memories resurface – and the town’s troubled and supernatural past is exposed.
When you can read it: July 19, 2022
Ashton Noone is a writer and author from Calgary. Noone was a finalist in the In Places Between: The Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest and has been published in Across the Margin, Bosie Magazine, and Poydras Review. Her short story The Garden of Impossible Flowers was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize.
The Life She Had by K.L. Armstrong
This thriller from K.L. Armstrong examines how far one is willing to go to protect oneself and one’s family. Celeste Turner crosses paths with a young woman named Daisy who invades Celeste’s property and has secrets of her own that she hides. Against her better judgment, Celeste befriends Daisy – and soon becomes embroiled in secrets, lies, and murder.
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When you can read it: July 19, 2022
K.L. Armstrong is a pseudonym for popular fantasy and thriller writer Kelley Armstrong. She is also the author of Wherever She Goes.
Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
When Paris Peralta is arrested in her bloodied bathroom while her celebrity husband lies dead in the bathtub, she knows she faces murder charges. 25 years earlier, Ruby Reyes was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that gripped Canada in the early 1990s. When Reyes is unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to reveal all of Paris’ secrets, and Paris must confront the dark past she left behind.
When you can read it: July 19, 2022
Jennifer Hillier is the author of eight psychological thrillers, including the bestselling Little Secrets, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Anthony Award. Hillier lives in Toronto.
Lookout by Trina Moyles
Lookout, now available in paperback, is an exploration of the Lookout Observers – weird, eccentric guys who spent five months summers alone, climbing 100-foot towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forests. Lookout is a memoir that documents Trina Moyle’s summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the unpredictable nature of wildfires in northern Canada.
When you can read it: July 26, 2022
Trina Moyles is an author, writer, photographer and seasonal smoke scout in Alberta’s northern boreal forest. Lookout received the 2022 Alberta Literary Award in the memoir category.
It’s Now or Never7:36A fire warden in her office in the skyTrina Moyles has spent six seasons in northwestern Alberta watching the landscape for subtle signs that a fire might be visible on the horizon. She describes what it’s like to be the first line of defense to spot wildfires in Alberta.
It’s now or never7:36A fire warden in her office in the sky
The Orphan Girl by Kurt Palka
The Orphan Girl is a historical novel of friendship and courage that follows Kate, an energetic and spirited young woman in England during World War II. Already struggling with the loss of her father, she is caught in an air raid and injured when her home is bombed. During recovery, a doctor named Claire invites Kate to live with her. But when Claire’s husband returns home from the war, the women’s lives change forever.
When you can read it: July 26, 2022
Kurt Palka is a bestselling author based in Toronto. Three of his books are historical novels – Clara, a Hammett Prize finalist, set in 1930s Vienna, The Piano Maker, a national bestseller set in 1930s Canada, and The Hour of the Fox, set in 1930s Canada named Margaret Bradley follows her son’s death in the 1970s. Palka grew up in Austria and spent most of his career as a journalist.
The Next Chapter3:03Kurt Palka on The Piano MakerAuthor Kurt Palka on his latest novel and the enigmatic woman at the heart of the story.
Next Chapter3:03Kurt Palka on “The Piano Maker”
Where You End and I Begin by Leah McLaren
Where You End and I Begin is a treatise on love, loss and family dynamics. Leah McLaren’s real-life relationship with her mother, Cessie, is a complicated one of “casual indifference.” The book examines their mother-daughter relationship, which is riddled with pain, lies, secrets, and cross-generational trauma.
When you can read it: July 26, 2022
Leah McLaren is a writer, journalist and former feature writer for the Globe and Mail. Her two novels, The Continuity Girl and A Better Man, have been published in half a dozen countries and translated into several languages.
Francie’s Got a Gun by Carrie Snyder
Francie’s Got a Gun is a novel set in a small town where a girl named Francis is navigating a difficult family life. Francie makes her escape – but has no idea what to do next. Armed with a gun, Francie decides she has no choice but to survive.
When you can read it: July 26, 2022
Carrie Snyder is a Canadian writer. Her 2012 collection of short stories, The Juliet Stories, was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for English Fiction.
The Last Days of Smallwood by Edward Roberts
The Last Days of Smallwood is a non-fiction book about Joseph Roberts Smallwood, the first Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and “the only living father of the Confederacy”. The book examines Smallwood’s final days in politics through firsthand accounts from political insiders such as Clyde Wells.
When you can read it: July 29, 2022
Edward Roberts, former N.L. Lieutenant Governor and prominent politician, died aged 81
Edward Roberts was a Dutch-based journalist, lawyer and politician who died in 2022. He was Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2002 to 2008. His first book as editor was the 2012 book Peter Cashin: My Fight for Newfoundland.
