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Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals.

This collection presents an arc of historical experience of Jewish child and teen life during the Shoah.

This collection of both narrative and lyrical poetry moves between two strong voices that resonate with and against one another, a woman and a man, focusing on family relationships in all their int

Mohammed is an aggressive, dominant character who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family.

The interrelated stories of this pseudo-memoir introduce readers to Barbara Klein Muskrat, a successful author of fiction and freelance book reviewer.

When Joss finds herself having to make mortgage payments without help from her depressed, stoner boyfriend who has just moved out, and the company she works for folds leaving her suddenly unemploye

On the cusp of the Depression, Sheilagh Driscoll of isolated Rennie’s Bay nearly dies while giving birth prematurely to baby Leah. Sheilagh is attended by a traditional Mi’kmaq midwife, Mrs.

After ten years of marriage, Sue and Jerry would say they know everything about each other. But each harbours a significant secret.

Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society.

The adage about “what happens in Vegas” is funny precisely because we know it’s wishful thinking. A Glittering Chaos is about what happens when “what happens in Vegas” comes home to haunt you.

In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis.

Leave-Taking moves through stages of grief — the reckoning, the remembering, the rituals — after the sudden death of a spouse.

Ever since anthropology PhD student Clara Lemont started researching the African-Brazilian religion of Odùn, her days and nights became filled with dreams of swirling figures of white, drum beats a

Manfred Weiszl who lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house.

Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s exp