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National Bestseller. Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize.

This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s.

"... required reading for Canadians who want to understand the social disasters of the last decade". -- Sun (Vancouver) "...

Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam.

"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economis

With a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling, Crummey vividly depicts the stark Newfoundland backcountry.

This leading casebook on Canadian evidence law combines text and excerpts from leading cases with commentary and problem scenarios.

Their children called it mischief.

In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behaviour chapters and a new primer on 'Analyzing Evidence' in Chapter 1