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Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom.

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife.

The story begins with Nell, the "spinster on the hill" near St. Peter's, Cape Breton.

It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets.

Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the "Korean girl" at school.

Set in post-war Communist Hungary, in the fictional town of Békes, Never, Again is the story of seven-year-old Tomi Wolfstein, the son of Holocaust survivors who have never told him anything about

Every day desperate people at the mercy of smugglers flee conflict zones, crossing the Mediterranean in rickety boats in the hopes of using Greece as the conduit to a better life elsewhere.

After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at hi

Honourable ex-con Jack Palace struggles to repay an unstable criminal who saved his life. What does a man do when he gets out of jail?

A year has passed since puppy raiser Diego handed Aloha’s harness over to her blind partner Kimberly Louise. Now Diego is traveling to Georgia to visit his beloved friend again!

This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft.

Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952.

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

This richly illustrated Inuktitut book makes the story of Uumasuusivissuaq accessible to Inuit everywhere.

Kudlu's children will not go to sleep until he tells them a story of long ago.