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Immersed
Publisher:IndependentYear:2025Levi’s charity live stream gets weird when he realizes he’s unable to exit a VR horror game. Even more concerning, the AI antagonist’s behaviour morphs from sinister to sensual.
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Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis
Publisher:Seven Seas EntertainmentYear:1991Kirigoe Mima’s fans are unhappy because she’s updating her image. They don’t want her to become unfamiliar. One is going to make sure she never changes.
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Iris and the Dead
Publisher:Book*hug PressYear:2025Personal and family history are woven together to depict the emotional vulnerability and trauma that resulted from a therapist’s abuse of power. In the underworld, offerings made to a mute god allow the dead to experience life once more. What will become of our narrator without her mind?
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The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
Publisher:Wolsak and WynnYear:2024A hologram gains sentience after lunar citizens flee the moon for earth. The dead are reanimated by mushrooms. An android is sent into space to destroy the infected. In this futuristic dystopia, love spans centuries, exceeds limits, and defies programming.
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John Dies at the End
Publisher:Permuted PressYear:2007The town is Undisclosed. David Wong and John Cheese are fake names. Soy sauce is a drug that lets you see beyond the boundaries of time and the dimensional planes of existence; and it will burrow its way inside of you whether you want to take it or not. Korrok is coming, and this book…
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My Imaginary Boyfriend
Publisher:IndependentYear:2020Phraphai meets a boy at his neighbourhood playground that no one else can see or hear. Twenty years later, he returns to his childhood home, and finds an adult Klongyao waiting for him at the swingset. Overjoyed to reconnect, Phraphai doesn’t hesitate to swear never to leave Klongyao again.
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Horror Movie
Year:2024Thirty years after filming, the sole-surviving cast member is back for the reboot of a never-released horror movie, and he’s willing to feed into the “cursed film” mystery, no matter what cost.
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Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir
Publisher:Guernica EditionsYear:2025A deeply introspective look at Trinh’s life through her experiences, juxtaposed alongside figures from well known myths, legends, and religious texts.
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Fuse
Publisher:Guernica EditionsYear:2021A raw, self-examination of belonging, and being. In Fuse, Hollay Ghadery shares vulnerable snapshots of her mental health journey, with visceral honesty, through the poetic lens of hindsight.
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The Unravelling: Incest and the Destruction of a Family
Publisher:University of Regina PressYear:2021A family comes together to plan a wedding, and in their shared moments they face the rumblings of ongoing trauma wrought from the incestuous behaviour of their patriarch. The details within The Unravelling are recounted with brutal and unflinching honesty by Donna Besel.
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Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North
Publisher:Dundurn PressYear:2025From 1971 to 1985, Edward Horne used his position of trust, and authority as a school teacher in the Northwest Territories, to systematically gain unsupervised access to Inuit children who he abused, causing irreparable harm, and intergenerational trauma. Kathleen Lippa’s Arctic Predator is not an easy read, but it is an important one.
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I Love / Kill You
Publisher:IndependentYear:2022Phu and Krit meet at a psychiatrist’s clinic. Phu is called in first, and Krit resigns himself never to see the handsome boy again only to find Phu waiting after his session. A romance ensues, but things only appear good on the surface. The reality of their manipulative motivations will soon be revealed…
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