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After her father disappears on Crystal Night, fifteen-year-old Freda, her mother and Freda's younger sister flee Germany for the -safe haven- of Shanghai.

When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned o

The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed.

Thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, then Harry stumbles across a ring. He discovers the ring gives him different powers every day.

The artistic world of mid-16th Century Italy comes to life through the eyes of a piebald slave stolen from her home and family in Africa.

Married woman Natha Cole works as a prostitute and eventually reconnects with her former client, bookstore owner, Jules Moore and becomes drawn to an auctioneer.

Dani Price returns to Toronto as an innocent victim of a powerful curse, the Evil Eye, after spending three weeks vacationing in Greece with her best friend, Kat.

After more than twenty years, Mike Ward is back.

What lurks in the shadow of the 99%? Montreal is gearing up for the World Economic Forum.

In England in the spring of 1939, Clancy, an Australian nurse, waits with her infant daughter for news of her lover, who was a volunteer with the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

A collection of short stories about the artists, academics, diplomats and other members of the Canadian cultural and social elite.

Cumberland is an industrial town located halfway between Ottawa and Montreal on the shore of the St. Lawrence River.

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Madli hopes the Soviet occupation is temporary, but when thousands of Estonians are deported, she knows lives are in danger.

When forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel is called in to help catch a serial arsonist who goes by the name "Lorax", he must juggle his official investigation with a personal one: t

In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portr