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Will the real Terry Ryan please stand up?

Guess who’s back? Back again . . .

The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker.

Walden details Henry David Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Wal

The Kybalion is divided into seven principles, which are axioms and insights similar to those found in the Book of Proverbs.

Journey with Alice down the rabbit hole into a world of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme.

Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became “Immortal” in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature.

Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time.

Told with startling, unapologetic honesty and in a haunting, minimalist style, Lightness is the story of a woman's profound sense of alienation, beginning with her own physical body and its de

Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these brilliant and intense stories are longing for escape, but they inevitably find themselves homesick.

How do you establish trust and meaningful connection with a sibling who suffers from schizophrenia?

1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC.

Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping collection of true stories from the Pacific Coast that build a vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woman’s evolving place within it.

The Light a Body Radiates Ethel Whitty Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her beloved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode.

When Amy Wilson accepted the job of field nurse for the Indigenous Peoples in the Yukon and Northern British Columbia in 1949, she was told that the north was a fine country for men and dogs but th

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. In 1773, her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published to international acclaim.