Mother’s Day Sale + Reading List

This Mother’s Day, treat Mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles from May 3 to May 8, 2022, at 11:59pm. Use code MOTHERSDAY22 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks.

Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases.

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Want to take advantage of the sale, but not sure which book to gift this Mother’s Day? Check out the following recommendations to find a book match for the Mom in your life! And don’t forget to use the discount code MOTHERSDAY22 at checkout to save 25% off your purchase!

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FOR ALL MOMS EVERYWHERE

Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood
Edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee

Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones: the manuscript written with a baby sleeping in a carrier, missing a book launch for a bedtime, crafting a promotional tour around child care. But they also celebrate the systems that nurture writers who are mothers; the successes; the intricate, interconnected joys of these roles. Buy now

FOR THE PEN PAL LOVING MOM

Letters to Amelia  by Lindsay Zier-Vogel

Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the thirty-year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She quickly becomes captivated. Letter by letter, Grace understands more about Amelia while piecing her own life back together. When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined with the aviation hero and she begins to write her own letters to Amelia.  Buy Now

FOR THE MOM WHO LOVES POETRY AND ART

Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo

Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations of this journey and its associated family history give meaning to the present. Through these deeply personal poems, and Mootoo’s own artwork, we begin to understand how a life can not only be shaped, but even reimagined. Buy Now

FOR THE MOM WHO CAN’T DECIDE BETWEEN READING A CLASSIC NOVEL AND WATCHING THE SPACE CHANNEL 

The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew become deeply attached to them, and start aching for the same things—warmth and intimacy, loved ones who have passed, shopping and child-rearing, and faraway Earth, which now only persists in memory. Buy Now

FOR THE MOM WHO OWNS A COOL RECORD COLLECTION

Begin by Telling by Meg Remy

In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from childhood to present day, Remy paints a portrait of a spectacle-driven country. The threads in Begin by Telling nimbly interweave with probing quotes and statistics, demonstrating the importance of radical empathy, and the necessity of reflecting on society and one’s self within that construct. Buy Now

FOR THE MOON GAZING MOM

Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell

 Expansive and enveloping, Webb-Campbell’s collection asks, “Who am I in relation to the moon?” The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral. Originating from Webb-Campbell’s deep grief of losing her mother, Lunar Tides charts the arc to finding her again in the waves. Written from a mixed Mi’kmaq/settler perspective, this work also explores the legacies of colonialism, kinship and Indigenous resurgence. Buy Now

FOR THE MOM WHO CHAMPIONS FEMINIST THEORY

Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott

From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott’s ongoing prose experiment that hinges the matter of writing to ongoing social upheaval. Buy Now

FOR THE DOG/CAT OR LLAMA MOM

Talking Animals by Joni Murphy

It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Alfonzo is a moody alpaca. His friend Mitchell is a sociable llama. They both work at City Hall, but their true passions are noise music and underground politics. Partly to meet girls, partly because the world might be ending, these lowly bureaucrats embark on an unlikely mission to expose the corrupt system that’s destroying the city from within. Buy Now

FOR THE MOM WHO FEELS IT ALL

Nought by Julie Joosten

These poems, in all their passions, inhabit the unfastened “and” of capacious loves and allegiances, refusing to choose between them; in Nought, thought comes alive through the materiality of body and experience, neurology and metaphysics entangled with sentient physicality—skin, eyes, mouths. Throughout, Joosten grapples with form and rhythm, crafting work that is intimately perceptive; that pulses and teems with life. Buy Now