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An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health.Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the comp

Celia Cantú, a pediatrician in Havana, is trying to live a regular life in today's Cuba. She is engaged to her childhood friend Luis and lives with her 16-year-old niece, Liliana.

At once a memoir, a work of philosophy, a story of European immigration to Canada's dark places of the earth, and an exploration of the roots and effects of colonialism, The Wolves At Evelyn:

The nature of relationships is skilfully illuminated in this collection of stories by award-winning author Holley Rubinsky.

In a not-so-far-off future of diminished energy reserves and collapsing economies, thirty-seven-year-old Sandy Burch-Bailey lives a difficult existence.

In this, the first volume of Difficulty at the Beginning, John Dupre is a student at Raysburg Military Academy, where his best friend Lyle Ledzinski is training him to be a perfect Socratic athlete

It's the mid-1920s and New York is shimmering with the hope and vigour of a younger generation in headlong pursuit of greater freedoms and pleasures.

An original look at a city's development through the eyes and words of real children who have lived there.Kidmonton: True Stories of River City Kids is a lively illustrated book for young read

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia.

Welcome to Poplar Grove, a farming community with three generations of Dutch-Canadians.

Sonja Danychuk, a serious and introverted student, takes pride in her intellect and academic achievements—essential skills when growing up in a dirt-poor family that struggles to survive in a small

Paul Rasmussen is a young ethnographer and academic recovering from prostate cancer. Broken, he retreats to the remote forests and towns of the Immitoin Valley.

John Dupre, a junior at West Virginia University, is an English major on the Dean's List dressed up as a Beatnik cowboy, the folk-singing resident outsider before nonconformity became a youth

Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist.

In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow.