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Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist.

Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning—whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by people throughout the world.

As a third generation logger, a life in the bush is all Joe Adler has ever known. He works, he hunts; he provides.

Diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2009 with a maximum six-year life expectancy, the author chronicles her journey through traditional and alternative treatments to complete remission.

A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush.

It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague.

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggle

A man loses his daughter while swimming one summer.

Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden's blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents.

When health care workers call a Code White, it's an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help.

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.

Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left.

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust.

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closes