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Decker Roberts is hired by companies because he has the gift of being able to detect the truth and in this way they can find out if the people they are planning to hire are lying.

In this story told alternately through journal entries and instructions from a bullying manual, sixth-grader Eric embarks on a quest to find the reason why he is being teased and tormented in middl

In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys again

November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man.

As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Ill

Rumo is a little Wolperting, a creature somewhere between a deer and a dog, who will one day become a great hero.

In this third tale of Zamonia, Optimus Yarnspinner sets off to track down a mysterious author in Bookholm.

Ireland, 1956. Although Ben MacCarthy wants no part of an upstart insurrection along the northern border, he unknowingly falls in with an IRA sympathizer and is compromised into running guns.

"Fascinating and impressive." Thomas Gunton, Director of Resource and Environmental Planning, Simon Fraser University and former Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, Government of Briti

Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot Metis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the "joyous name" of the House of Charlemagne.

This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.

Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature.

"So often, it is through humour that the big lessons in life are learned"--about adult responsibilities, honour, and respect.