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Launchpad: Keepers of the Faith, by Shaukat Ajmeri

by Kerry Clare

This book is complex, beautiful, and essential reading for our times." —Farzana Doctor, author of Seven

Launchpad: Gold Rush, by Claire Caldwell

by Kerry Clare

Claire Caldwell is an environmental doomsayer, but she’s also a comedic, antic storyteller, and she’s great at dark endings.—John Irving

Launchpad: The Kissing Fence, by B.A. Thomas-Peter

by Kerry Clare

"A compelling story of faith and loyalty, abuse and adversity, and the hope for a better tomorrow." —Genevieve Graham

Launchpad: Prairie, by Candace Savage

by Kerry Clare

"Impelled with its sense of the miraculous in nature."

Launchpad: Dead Mom Walking, by Rachel Matlow

by Kerry Clare

"This book is perfect. Dead Mom Walking is a deeply funny, incredibly smart, and moving page-turner...I just can’t get over what a stunning achievement …

Launchpad: The Swan Suit, by Katherine Fawcett

by Kerry Clare

Lisa Moore declares this latest collection "Wicked and charming by turns...nothing short of magical.”

Launchpad: West Coast Wild Babies, by Deborah Hodge

by Kerry Clare

"There are a growing number of books for young children that celebrate and encourage an appreciation for the natural world. I am happy to add to this …

Launchpad: Polar Vortex, by Shani Mootoo

by Kerry Clare

A novel that's gorgeously wrought and excruciatingly (in the best way!) unputdownable. 

Launchpad: The Union of Smokers, by Paddy Scott

by Kerry Clare

"An entirely new kind of story told by a gutter-mouthed, chain-smoking twelve year old, who announces in the opening paragraph that he’s going to die …

Launchpad: Junebat, by John Elizabeth Stintzi

by Kerry Clare

"To the poetics of the queer everyday Stintzi adds their ‘Junebat,’ a multitudinous concept of such explanatory power I’m certain it’ll endure …

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