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Instant national bestseller. In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event—a predatory bear attack. When Claire Cameron was nine years old, her father, a professor of Old English, told her he was dying. In the years after he was gone, she found a way to overcome her grief among the rivers and lakes of Algonquin Park, a vast Canadian wilderness area.

National Bestseller. Finalist for the Toronto Books Awards. Finalist for the Hilary Weston–Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. An inventive memoir about one family's escape from Vietnam and the father's mysterious disappearance along the way. This book is an intricate exploration of a searching mind, shedding light on the psyche of a grieving son, as he chases certainty and seeks elusive resolution. With the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning.

"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas." – Booklist. A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique.

The life and legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes, a trailblazing Black lifeguard, who became a cultural icon in a racist society. Searching for Serafim is a layered exploration of the life of Serafim "Joe" Fortes. A Trinidad native who arrived on the shores of Canada in 1885, Fortes was heralded as a hero in Vancouver for saving dozens of people from drowning as the city's first lifeguard, and his funeral drew the largest crowd ever recorded in the city's history. Since his passing, Fortes has been commemorated with a postage stamp and local buildings named in his honour.

L'autrice, poète et psychiatre Ouanessa Younsi a publié, entre 2011 et 2023, cinq recueils de poésie, ainsi qu'un essai (Soigner, aimer, finaliste du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général du Canada en 2017). Elle a aussi codirigé l'ouvrage Femmes rapaillées. Dans Soigner, écrire, elle se penche sur ses différentes pratiques et nous transporte, par ses récits et ses réflexions, dans les couloirs de l'hôpital, de la maternité et du poème. Tantôt médecin, tantôt patiente, toujours humaine, elle convoque les morts qui jalonnent son métier de soignante pour les garder vivants.

Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. While her lyrics were honoured, she was also marginalized, denigrated as a witch, and exiled, both for being a writer and for what she wrote. Presented as a chronicle of journeys through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod's legacy, preserved within landscape, memory, and identity.

A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one. In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of grief and loss. The comics started as small sketches but quickly transformed into something totally unfamiliar to her.