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A moving story of protest and determination, Nutau's Cap tells of a young Innu girl, Nanas.

Dying to be Thin is a witty and inspirational look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating disorder Bulimia.

This collection presents three young people backed up against walls, metaphorically and literally, who risk everything for a chance to love and to be loved.

The Drowning Girls. Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead.

Described by Carol Bolt as "a world full of poetry and ceremony and mystery, where questions can be asked if not answered," Never Swim Alone and This Is A Play are two of Daniel MacIvor&#

While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic.

Calgary's Detective Lane deals with complications on the homefront with the birth of his nephew Indiana, and a series of gruesome killings that shakes his partner to the core.

Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa.

A fractured depiction of life after a death in a bifurcated Alberta/Saskatchewan community.

Edith Stoker's father is building a wall in their backyard. A very, very high wall - a brick bulwark in his obsessive war against their hated neighbour Edward Black.

It's 1994 and Pete Curtis can't wait to get out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Already, he's playing drums in a band whose songs belong on mix-tapes everywhere.

Inspector Coswell hunts for a not-so-good doctor's on UBC's campus.

After a series of assassinations rocks Calgary's underworld, Detective Lane is conscripted along with his husband Arthur into working undercover to seek out links in the Mexico - Canada drug connec

Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan's darkest mystery to date.

A team of researchers from a nearby university have set up a research station in a fictional outport in Newfoundland, studying the strange emergence of phosphorescent tides.