Woman on the Edge

By Samantha M. Bailey

July 23 at 8 p.m. Eden Mills Writers' Festival Online. From the moment two women's lives collide on a subway platform to the shocking finale, you'll be dizzied by the twists and turns the story takes.

Hurry Home

By Roz Nay

July 23 at 8 p.m. Eden Mills Writers' Festival Online - When two sisters are reunited after a horrific family tragedy, each with a different version of the events that drove them apart, the line between truth and fiction begins to vanish. Pitch-perfect and flawlessly constructed,

Still Here

By Amy Stuart

July 23 at 8 p.m. Eden Mills Writers' Festival Online - From the bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water-PI Clare O'Dey is on the hunt for two missing persons. Little does she know she's the one being hunted.

The Swap

By Robyn Harding

July 23 at 8 p.m. Eden Mills Writers' Festival Online - a riveting tale about the toxic relationship between two couples after a night of sexual shenanigans, and the manipulative teenager with an explosive secret at the center of it all.

Fight Like a Girl

By Sheena Kamal

August 6 8 pm - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - Award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel that will have fans crying out for more.Love and violence.

My Summer of Love and Misfortune

By Lindsay Wong

August 6 8 pm - Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.

The Book of Sam

By Rob Shapiro

August 6 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - The story of the unchosen one, a kid with no prophecy to fulfill who ventures to Hell, a fantastical world of falling cities and strange creatures, in search of his best friend.

How to Die: A Book About Being Alive

By Ray Robertson

August 13 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - "He who would teach men to die would teach them to live," writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge.

This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man

By Dakshana Bascaramurty

August 13 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - The moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son.

The End of Me

By John Gould

August 13 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - 56 very short stories about death by Giller Prize finalist John Gould

The End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories that explores the experience of mortality.

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves

By Madhur Anand

August 20 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - A multi-narrated memoir by University of Guelph professor and poet Madhur Anand. Experience the fracturing of her parent's lives in partition and their memories of immigration to Canada. And of course Madhur's life as the daughter of immigrants. Detailed, compelling and beautifully written.

A History of My Brief Body

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

August 20 - Eden Mills Writers' Festival - The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.

The Pull of the Stars: A Novel

By Emma Donoghue

Pull of the Stars is a meticulously researched and timely novel! Don't miss Emma with The Eden Mills Writers' Festival Virtual Bookclub August 25! Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love largely rendered.

On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus

By David Waltner-Toews

Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future. David is a Guelph area resident!

Great Influenza: Epic Story Of The Greatest Plague In History

By John M. Barry

Spillover: Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic

By David Quammen

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

By Frank M Snowden

A brilliant and sobering look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks. The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak

Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease

By Bonnie Henry

BARB - The book that you never thought you'd need is out!....The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from Canada's newest heroine, Bonnie Henry.

A Journal of the Plague Year

By Daniel Defoe, Jason Goodwin

The Modern Classics Plague

By Robin Buss, Albert Camus, Tony Judt