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The Girl Who Was Born That Way is the story of the Berk family, not exactly an ordinary Jewish family, trying to bury its Holocaust past while starting over in post-war USA.

The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (

Blue Bear Woman (Ourse bleue) is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman.

It is 1970. The evergreens are thick with snow despite it being the month of April. In an Ottawa hospital, another daughter is born to the Azar family.

First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir is a compelling story of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse that unrolls as the author, at age 50 and living with Multiple Sclerosis, rides her 2009 Harl

It is 1971.

Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot--a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout--

A collection of stories and recipes from chefs, farmers, and other food producers who are making their mark in Prince Edward County.

Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork, anxiety, and overstimulation.

Poems about British Columbia, the author's relationship to the land, reconciliation, nature.

A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year- old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come home through a campaign of letters.

Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with th

Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford.

The poems in Port of Being hold modern technology--surveillance, shipping, the Internet--to examine communication, migration, and identity.

The Deadly Snakes: Real Rock and Roll Tonight charts the rise and gentle fall of Canada's greatest band.