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Nominee 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize.

New York Times Bestseller • An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the

Every great city has a soul. But every city also has a dark side.

A mysterious pow-wow is to be held inside a colossal tipi which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town, and only full-blooded Native Americans are allowed to attend the grand event.

Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they've inherited from a great-uncle.

Og the frog has always loved making up songs and poems about life in the swamp - about juicy crickets, squishy mud and all of his froggy friends.

From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into

Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know.

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis.

Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee th

Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wiv

What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples?

Hilarity and queer magic realism twist the throttle when Jackie, a loner with a secret bank-robbing persona, meets Vespa: sexy, sculpture-welding artist and collector of vintage motorbikes.

Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed.

After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at hi