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Xue Yiwei's life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism.

Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured.

Abdallah's encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami's moving search for his lost fiancée in J

Sons and Fathers is a novel about men.

The Western Light, the prequel to the international bestselling The Wives of Bath, is Susan Swan's long-awaited return to the life of the beloved narrator Mary "Mouse" Bradford.

Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum.

Susan Compo captures the lives of aspiring musicians, scenesters, and obsessive fans—lives in which reality is a constant threat to cherished illusions, and death, while never far away, is not alwa

Fifteen-year-old Gemma's life on a small New Brunswick island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one.

When Mira Acharya's father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting.

Retired schoolteacher Flossy O’Reilly has spent almost all of her eight decades in the seaside community of Great Village, Nova Scotia.

Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join.

A story of sorrow and renewal which revolves around the caleche drivers of Old Montreal.

Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, The Heart Specialist is the epic story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things—microscopes, dissections, and a

The pain tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life.

The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperate for basic human contact that they'd go home with a Doc Marten shoe if it made a move, and maybe even if it didn't.