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Manufacturing Guilt (2nd edition)

by Barrie Anderson & Dawn Anderson – Fernwood Publishing (January 11, 2021)

Manufacturing Guilt, 2nd edition, updates the cases presented in the first edition and includes two new chapters: one concerning the case of James Driskell and another regarding Dr. Charles Smith, whose role...

Busted

by Susan C. Boyd – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Long-listed for the George Ryga Award.

Canada?s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada?s history of drug prohibition say about its future?

Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition...

Criminalizing Women

by Gillian Balfour & Elizabeth Comack – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neo-liberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism, and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women?s lives. Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the...

Coming Back to Jail

by Elizabeth Comack – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack?s Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women?s abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged...

Being Heard

by Kelly Gorkoff & Jane Runner – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Being Heard examines, from their own perspectives and experiences, the lives of young women sexually exploited through prostitution. Putting their voices in the centre of its analysis, the book tries to help...

When Justice Is a Game

by MaDonna Maidment – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

All too often the police do not get the right person. Wrongful convictions are framed as mistakes or failures of the justice system. However, many of the wrongfully convicted are from among the poor and visible...

An Ideal Prison?

by Kelly Hannah-Moffat & Margaret Shaw – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Ten years after the publication of Creating Choices, a remarkable report on women’s imprisonment in Canada, this book sets out to reflect on attempts to reform prison. In a series of critical essays, the contributors...

STILL Blaming Children

by Bernard Schissel – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

The media-enhanced moral panic surrounding youth has continued unabated over the past two decades. Its form and substance varies, but the politics of blaming and exploiting children underlies it all. Despite...

Poverty, Regulation & Social Justice

by Diane Crocker & Val Marie Johnson – Fernwood Publishing (January 10, 2021)

Emerging from a public colloquium on the criminalization of poverty, this volume critically interrogates how state and private practices have increasingly come to over-regulate people with severely limited economic...

The Last Witch #1

by Conor McCreery, V.V. Glass & Natalia Nesterenko – Boom! Box (January 20, 2021)

It's the one time of the year when the witch known as Cailleach hunts the children of the village - so Saoirse, a brave and reckless young girl, decides this is the perfect opportunity to defy her father and...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21

by Jordie Bellaire, Joss Whedon, Julían López & Raul Angulo – Boom! Studios (January 20, 2021)

Anya has been a key figure in Buffy?s life ever since she arrived in Sunnydale, but there?s more to the demon?s mission and mysterious past than anyone knows! It starts with her secret connection to the Watcher?s...

Saban's Go Go Power Rangers Vol. 8

by Ryan Parrott, Eleonora Carlini & Raul Angulo – Boom! Studios (January 06, 2021)

The writing duo of New York Times bestseller Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and the GLAAD Award-nominated Sina Grace (Iceman) join artists Francesco Mortarino (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and...

Klaus: The Life & Times of Santa Claus

by Grant Morrison & Dan Mora – Boom! Studios (January 13, 2021)

The smash-hit from superstars Grant Morrison (Green Lantern, Happy!) and Dan Mora (Once & Future) returns with this special collection of holiday-themed stories. Klaus must help an absentee dad-turned-snowman...

Career Helping

by Kris Magnusson – Septembre éditeur (January 11, 2021)

CAREER HELPING - Harnessing Perspective and Emotion in Everyday Practice will enable professionals: to better understand how perceptions and emotions are inextricably intertwined, and play critical roles in...

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1

by Jim Henson, Lara Elena Donnelly, French Carlomagno & Samantha Dodge – Archaia (January 06, 2021)

All is not as it seems with the guests of Jareth?s famous Masquerade, as one participant slowly awakens to the reality of her topsy-turvy existence in the Goblin Kingdom when Sarah shatters the glass mirrors...

Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1

by Greg Pak, Lalit Kumar Sharma & Francesco Segala – Boom! Studios (January 06, 2021)

It?s The End Of The First-Ever Firefly Event - And Now Everything Changes! Shocking losses lead to stunning decisions as Mal and the crew of Serenity must face the consequences of their choices in war against...

An Unkindness of Ravens #4

by Dan Panosian, Marianna Ignazzi & Fabiana Mascolo – Boom! Studios (January 06, 2021)

The truth about Wilma - and the people she loves most - is revealed. But as Wilma is left reeling from these revelations, she and the Ravens discover just where Waverly has been - and it may be more than they...

Dune: House Atreides #3

by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Dev Pramanik & Alex Guimaraes – Boom! Studios (January 06, 2021)

Young Duncan Idaho is given an ultimatum: escape or die. Meanwhile, Leto Atreides is introduced to the hyper-advanced city of Ix where his future will be shaped in unimaginable ways. The Planetologist Pardot...

Something is Killing the Children #13

by James Tynion IV, Werther DELL'EDERA & Miquel Muerto – Boom! Studios (January 06, 2021)

The monsters in Archer?s Peak have surrounded the school where Erica and Tommy make their last stand. Even if the House of Slaughter can save them, will the price of their help be too high?

Gray to Green Communities

by Dana Bourland – Island Press (January 19, 2021)

In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a traditional gray housing model, to a green housing model, which considers the health and well-being...

Steven Universe Vol. 9

by Rebecca Sugar – KaBOOM! (January 13, 2021)

Join Steven, Connie, Lars, all the Crystal Gems and more for all-new adventures in Beach City and beyond from writer Taylor Robbin and artist S.M. Mara! Can Peridot convince her friends that Camp Pining Hearts...

Ghosted in L.A. Vol. 3

by Sina Grace, Siobhan Keenan & Cathy Le – Boom! Box (January 06, 2021)

GLAAD Award-nominated Sina Grace (Iceman) and illustrator Siobhan Keenan (Jem and the Holograms) conclude the acclaimed series that proves true love and friendship never dies! Daphne Walters? life is complicated...