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A touching novella about a young boy growing up in a Newfoundland outport who must learn to live with his mother's death and his father's remarriage.

Known throughout Canada as a reporter, feature writer and story-teller, Gregory Clark is beloved by a multitude of readers, many of whom have followed his writing career with delight for more than

Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Ba

Zach learns that he is the only surviving member of the Agawa Indian tribe. In his search for his roots he finds his lost tribe amongst his contemporaries.

There isn't a Canadian in the last fifty years who hasn't heard or heard of Gordon Sinclair.

From the moment the American holding the gun jumped in her car, Lora Harding suspected her Cancun dream vacation might not turn out quite as she suspected.

Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell.

A collection of short stories: Royal beatings, Privilege, Half a grapefruit, Wild swans, The beggar maid, Mischief, Providence, Simon's luck, Spelling, Who do you think you are?

Reconstructs voyages of exploration and piracy that led to settlements on Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Vinland, from 960 to 1010 A.D.

Pioneers of all sorts - prospectors, scientists, homesteaders, teachers, bush pilots, and many others - tell their fascinating stories here, as they have told them on Canada's best-loved radio

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to gun the fugitive down.

Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir.

Autobiography of deaf-blind woman in Canada who pioneered deaf-blind services. Hilarious, self-deprecating style.