Celebrate the launch of the new Alice in Wonderland movie with this new title from Porcupine's Quill. A is for Alice features twenty-six magical images gleaned from almost two hundred wood engravings made by George A. Walker for extremely rare editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) published by Cheshire Cat Press in 1988 and 1998, respectively.

Albritton argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25 percent of the world population are over-fed and 25 percent are hungry. He details the economic relations and connections that have put us in a situation of simultaneous oversupply and undersupply of food. Available now from Arbeiter Ring Publishing.

Part memoir, part adventure tale, part political thriller - a compelling read that dissolves stereotypes and exposes paradoxes about Africa. Joan Baxter draws on more than two decades of living in and reporting from Africa to reveal that there is more to the continent than poverty and suffering, and far more to Western involvement than benevolent charity. Available now from Wolsak & Wynn.

In these thoughtful essays, Sheema Khan—Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD—gives us her pointed insights on being a modern and liberal, yet practising, Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism and fanaticism, human rights post 9/11, Islamic law, women’s rights, sharia, and the meaning of hijab, she explains Islam to the greater public while calling for mutual understanding and tolerance. Available now from TSAR Publications.

Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes, John Barton documents the path of the male body in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world. Hymn stokes the fires of homoerotic romantic love with its polar extremes of intimacy and solitude. Available now from Brick Books.

By the Rivers of Brooklyn transforms into fiction the experience of the 75,000 first- and second-generation Newfoundlanders who once lived in Brooklyn, New York – and the experience of Newfoundlanders throughout history who have gone away to find work and prosperity but never stopped dreaming of home. Available now from Breakwater Books.

Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved. Available now from Arbeiter Ring Publishing.

Women on Ice is the first book to focus upon the vibrant world of women’s hockey in western Canada during WWI and the 1920s. The book follows a number of teams that met during the annual Banff winter carnivals to compete for the championship as well as the curious decline of women's hockey in the 1930s that has left the history of these teams consigned to obscurity. Available now from Ronsdale Press.

Animals is a novel set in an indeterminate future in which virtually all the species that humans have for millennia used as food have become extinct; the world this change creates is at once eerily foreign and disturbingly familiar. Available now from Vehicule Press.

 Longlisted for the 2009 Giller Prize, The Incident Report, both mystery and love story, daringly explores the fragility of our individual identities. Strikingly original in its structure, comprised of 140 highly distilled, lyric “reports,” the novel comments on bizarre public behaviour, intertwined with reports on the private life of the novel’s narrator, a Toronto Public Library worker. Available now from Pedlar Press.

From the long list of 100 poems drawn from Canadian literary journals and magazines this year’s guest editor, award winning poet A. F. Moritz, has chosen 50 of the best Canadian poems published in 2008. With this anthology, readers will be able to tap into the remarkable and vibrant Canadian poetry scene. Series Editor: Molly Peacock. Available now from Tightrope Books.

After an anarchist group of young protesters purportedly try to bomb the Ontario legislature, a teenage girl from a local wealthy family is arrested for planting the bomb. Enter PI's Charlie Tate and Elodie Gray. Elodie, a family friend of the arrested teenager, feels compelled to help. Charlie, however, resists joining the fray until his own daughters are arrested and he's forced to dive into the action. Available now from Turnstone Press.

In every walk of Canadian life—from the business world to the everyday world—the reality is that you will be increasingly in contact with Anishnaabe World. Knowing something about Aboriginal people and their reality not only gives you an advantage over those who don't, it’s just plain polite in this country now called Canada. Available now from Your Scrivener Press.

Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she’s never met, her adopted father’s suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasn’t left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poet. Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can’t be bothered trying to fit in. Available now from Coach House Books.

Long out of print, this revised and enlarged 30th Anniversary edition of Marty Gervais's The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook brings back the original book with new stories and photographs of the history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during Prohibition. With more than 180 illustrations and 2 maps. Available now from Biblioasis.

Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer, teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the Maritimes and beyond, with his unlikely crew of a rescued dog and a quirky seagull. Submarine Outlaw shows how any great goal in life takes a good deal of patience, determination, and hard work. Now available from Ronsdale Press, along with the sequel, Journey to Atlantis.

Say for a second you’re just a normal person. You live in a hipster neighbourhood but you’re not a hipster. You’re hipless. The protagonist here tries to live his life like an open heart, and a curious cat, meeting and mingling with a collection of Montreal oddballs. He finds love, loses love, learns to like cross-dressing, and finds something else. Available now from Conundrum Press.

Joan is on the brink. Cough drop addict, school bus driver, mixed race daughter of a Maoist English father and a Chinese-Canadian mother, Joan struggles for meaning after a friend’s death reveals a secret life. Migration Songs is a lost letter from your past, an intimate experience full of humour and grace. Available now from Invisible Publishing.

Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Those secrets emerge into light when Brian disappears in the forest, as his father did three decades before. Available now from ChiZine Publications.

After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. For one small group of people, thrown together by catastrophe, a state of anxiety and claustrophobia follows as they discover no precautions have been made for a disaster of this magnitude. When the dark and cold continues, plans for survival begin to emerge as Fred, a fifteen-year-old boy from England, is forced to take charge in unpredictable ways. Available from NeWest Press.

Sammy and Anna Ostrove raised a typical Jewish family in Winnipeg: Marilyn, the older daughter who is a successful lawyer and Teddy, a son who was to be a doctor. Life of course, had other plans. A funny and poignant novel, The Briss explores, on a personal level, family relationships, and on a political level, the continuing debate about Jewish identity and its connection to Israel and Palestine. Available from New Star Books.
 

Expatriate Irishman Patrick Gallagher, an accomplished but eccentric breeder of prized roses, returns home after 20 years to be the celebrity host of a garden tour of Ireland. Not happy about returning but desperately in need of attracting the eye of a wealthy patron, Patrick plans to keep a low profile but soon encounters the very reasons he left Ireland in the first place, forcing him to reconcile with his demons. Available from Brindle & Glass.

Nearing thirty-five, Owen is plagued by childhood demons, the ghosts of failed relationships, and a persistent feeling that his life lacks meaning. When mental illness claims his father, he and his brother, Alex, are brought together and a chain reaction of unrelated, heart-breaking events is set in motion. To Owen it feels like a new beginning but it becomes one last wrong turn. Available this September from Breakwater Books.

Young Alfred is back in this sequel to the prize-winning young adult novel, Submarine Outlaw, with his loyal crew of a dog and a seagull by his side. This time Alfred sails his homemade submarine across the Atlantic from his native Newfoundland to the Mediterranean in search of the fabled lost island of Atlantis. Available now from Ronsdale Press.

Meet nine-year-old Phineas Walsh who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world and watches too much Green Channel. He's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him. But what Phin can't understand is why everyone else isn't as worried as he is about the fact that a quarter of all earth's mammals are on the Red List of Threatened Species. Available from Coach House Books.

For the first time Jacques Lacoursière has teamed up with Robin Philpot to provide English-language readers with this handy short history of Quebec that is both rigorously researched and very accessible. Available from Baraka Books. 

A potent mixture of biblical allusions, Lovecraftian echoes, and contemporary culture, The Tel Aviv Dossier is part supernatural thriller, part meditation on the nature of belief -- an original and involving novel painted on a vast canas in which, beneath the despair, humour is never absent.

If you are ever in the mood for a thrill-ride whodunnit, you could do no better than Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler’s Apostrophe.  It's edge-of-your-seat excitement with every sentence.  What will the internet do next? Find out!