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1. Lisa , Moore-Smith

The Thorne Legacy

"New Orleans: swarming with ghosts, and fevered with history. A man once told me the difference between it and Venice is that the old Venetian gods are sleeping, whereas their New Orleans counterparts are very much awake, and amoral, and hungry. Walk the streets of the Vieux Carre, and you will fall in love. When you do, listen close. You'll hear it laughing, and feel a chill in the sultry air. Someone just walked over your grave. A thousand ghost stories should be written in its tribute. This is one."* * *"Dark, psychic undercurrents pulse through the novella, with hints of a Creole shadow-side, imbued with hidden histories and a horror-tinged mood, as a writer's obsession navigates a haunting legacy and the weight of the past."Eugen Bacon - Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus and Ignyte Award winner and Philip K. Dick Award finalist

1. Lisa Moore , Ramée

The Everybody Experiment

"Kylie is an endearing, relatable protagonist readers will root for...heartwarming and empowering." —Kirkus Reviews From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle grade novel, in the vein of Judy Blume, about friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. Sure to resonate with fans of Rebecca Stead, Meg Medina, and Kelly Yang. Now in paperback! Eleven-year-old Kylie’s friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school just a summer away, she’s worried her friends might leave her behind, especially because she keeps embarrassing them. So Kylie applies her scientific brain to solve the problem and comes up with the Everybody Experiment: Hypothesis: Kylie Stanton will be mature if she does what everybody else does. Experiment: This summer, when all of Kylie’s friends do something, she will do it too. Suddenly it’s a whole new grown-up world for Kylie, with parties, unsupervised excursions, and boys. But the more research Kylie puts into the Everybody Experiment, the more she begins to wonder how she can do what everybody else does . . . without letting go of herself. Praise for The Everybody Experiment: “A meaningful and methodological story of friendship, family, and finding one’s own voice.” —The Horn Book "Ramée’s middle grade novel is well paced, traversing Kylie’s summer with ease and dipping the reader into pivotal moments." —ALA Booklist

Best Canadian Stories 2024

Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022. Featuring:Madhur Anand ¿ Sharon Bala ¿ Gary Barwin ¿ Billy-Ray Belcourt ¿ Xaiver Michael Campbell ¿ Corinna Chong ¿ Beth Downey ¿ Allison Graves ¿ Joel Thomas Hynes ¿ Elise Levine ¿ Sourayan Mookerjea ¿ Lue Palmer ¿ Michelle Porter ¿ Sara Power ¿ Ryan Turner ¿ Ian Williams

1. Lisa Moore , Ramée

Mapmaker

When Walt and his family relocate to Blackbird Bay, Walt thinks it's the most boring place on earth. While his twin sister, Van, likes to spend her time skateboarding, Walt prefers to hide out in his room and work on his beloved map world, Djaruba. But shortly after their arrival, Walt discovers something extraordinary: He has the ability to make maps come to life. Suddenly his new hometown doesn't seem so boring after all. And when a magical heirloom leaves Walt, his new friend Dylan, and Van stranded in the fantastical world that Walt created, he'll need to harness his new power to get them home. But things are changing. People have gone missing, and it's clear that a malevolent rival to the kingdom--a fellow mapmaker--has nefarious plans for Walt. If he's not stopped soon, Djaruba could become nothing but a shadow of itself or, worse, gone forever. And if a mapmaker can destroy one world, could Earth be next?

1. Lisa , Moore

Open

The only certainty in life, according to these stories, comes from the accumulation of moments that refuse to be contained. The stories in Open cover these moments, familiar territory in the hands of most writers, in unfamiliar ways. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake; the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's wrenching memory of an early love affair; two friends, one who suffers early in life and the other midway through - these are some of the subjects Lisa Moore treats with her incomparable style. Drawing on vivid landscapes both interior and exterior, Moore splices together the sudden shocks and subtle realizations that enter her characters' lives, using the piercing imagery and soulful technique that have won her acclaim from critics and her many fans.

1. Lisa , Moore

Azeman, or the Testament of Quincey Morris

"How much do we really know about Quincey Morris? In one of the greatest Grand-Guignol moments of all time, Dracula is caught feeding Mina blood from his own breast while her husband lies helpless on the same bed. In the chaos that follows, Morris runs outside, ostensibly in pursuit. "I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn," Dr. Seward says, "and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew-tree. It puzzled me to think why he was doing this..." Then the doctor is distracted, and we never do find out. This story rose up from that one question: Why, in this calamitous moment, did the brave and stalwart Quincey Morris hide behind a tree?" Lisa Moore