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One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again.

In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores.

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardFor the first time, the fu

When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns forty-five she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay with plans to transform it into a charming B & B.

Douglas Glover’s raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one month.

In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour tha

A Quill & Quire Book of the YearTen years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories.

When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever. Alone in London, she discovers a new-found freedom and her independence.

A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants.

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day.

A CNQ Editors' Book of the YearA Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birre

In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy.

On holiday in Portugal to take their daughter's mind off a troubled love affair, the Channings are `befriended' by the Baronesa Narvo - with unexpected results.

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines.

In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it’s a vivid memory half a century later.