New Deal: Healing Your Thyroid Naturally by Emily Lipinski

Non-fiction: Health

Doctor of naturopathic medicine Emily Lipinski's HEALING YOUR THYROID NATURALLY, a holistic guide for treating thyroid disease by an author who has managed her own autoimmune symptoms through dietary changes, lifestyle management, and more, to Renee Sedliar at Hachette Books, for publication in fall 2020, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory (world).

New Deal: THE HILL by Ali Bryan

Award-winning Canadian novelist and Leacock nominee, Ali Bryan's debut THE HILL, a near-future feminist coming-of-age adventure set on a reclaimed garbage dump inhabited solely by girls that explores gender, power, the female experience, friendship, and what it really means to be a girl, to Jennifer Baumgardner at Dottir Press, for publication in fall 2020, by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory (world English).

New Deal: Audrey Francis-Plante's DEVONNA

Winner of 2017 Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction Audrey Francis Plante's DEVONNA, in which the main character cannot physically feel anything, but discovers she can feel the touch of a ghost as she searches the ghost world for her cousin and discovers she is destined for unimaginable things, to Stacey Adderley at Evernight Teen, for publication in October 2019, by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory (world English).