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In this sharply observed and erotically charged debut collection, Journey Prize-winner Yasuko Thanh immerses us in the lives of people on the knife edge of desire and regret, hungry for change yet

Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter.

"Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family - somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school.

Foster child Min Randall's life is not easy as she has to deal with a number of foster parents and Children's Aid, but things take a turn for the better when she finds an injured dog.

When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go.

Having once shared a kiss with her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin, fourteen-year-old Charlie finds life even more awkward when their parents marry, making Kevin, still her crush, now her stepb

Before beginning his training as a Seeing Eye dog, Shakespeare, a labrador retriever who understands human speech, is placed for his first year of life with a foster child who has never learned to

This bittersweet coming-of-age novel, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the Korean community in Toronto in

Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year wi

After spending five years in a cerebral palsy center, Sally is challenged to adjust to normal family and school life.

"Meg, the youngest in the Copeland family always feels out of place. She has to share a room with her older sister Sally and they constantly bicker.

In this sequel to Rescue Pup, Shakespeare, the unusual Seeing Eye dog who understands humans, must win over his new master, a desperately unhappy young man who was recently blinded in an accident.<

Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor receives a diary for her birthday and uses it to record the arrival of the Spanish Flu epidemic in Toronto in 1918 and the impact it has on her family.

This 1991 novel is volume two in the author's series, "The Work and the Glory," and continues the saga of the Steed family during the early years of LDS Church history, 1830-1836.

Sequel to "The radiant way", this novel continues the story of Alix, Liz and Esther and focuses on the industrial city of Northam in Yorkshire, where the problems and opportunities of eighties Brit