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Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour WritingWinner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Freddy is having a rough year.

Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy.

Children and teenagers stroll between the skyscrapers in Vancouver, and experience the city in a different way that adults do.

With The Age of Water Lilies, Theresa Kishkan has written a beautiful novel that travels from the time of colonial wars to the pacifist movement to 1960s Victoria, and shares a unique and delightfu

What is real reconciliation?

An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west.

Set partially in Vancouver, partially on a farm in rural Ontario and partially in West Africa, Sweetness from Ashes is a novel about family in its various forms.

Roadtripping documents a decade of road trips through the fiefdom of Alberta.

Marta Elzinga has been searching for a sign. When she spots an elusive mink on the shoreline of the Toronto Island Airport, she thinks it is her sign.

Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket.

Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again.

A tribute to nature’s influence on the creative process, Bog Tender is a stunning memoir that explores nature and the act of writing, and where the two intersect.

It’s the last ski weekend of the season and a mishmash of snow-enthusiasts is on its way to a remote backwoods cabin.

The year is 1885 and Abigail Peacock is resisting what seems to be an inevitable future—a sensible career as a teacher and marriage to the earnestly attentive local storeowner.But then she buys a r

Sometimes it’s the little things in life that make all the difference, like chromosomes, sperm, bugs or an endangered seabird that nests in old-growth forests.