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When health care workers call a Code White, it's an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help.

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.

Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left.

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust.

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closes

What does it take to stand up for what's right?It's 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth.

Can the strength accumulated over a lifetime of losses be enough to cope with a daughter's death?What was it like growing up as a smart girl in a world of 1970s suburban conformity?

There's nothing lucky about your family falling apart. Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has.

When you change your name, do you change who you are?Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father.

Jason's dad falls asleep everywhere … except in his own bed.

When Angela's father gets lost at the airport, she looks for him everywhere, even inside an airplane.

Julie thinks her new neighbors must be very scary because all the stuff being moved into their house is enormous. Then she meets David and finds out that he's just a normal, regular boy.

Andrew has decided he never needs to go pee ever again, but his parents aren't too sure. Only one minute into the drive to his grandparents' house, Andrew changes his mind.

"Last stop! Everybody out!" Jonathan is trying not to make a mess, but someone has put a subway station in his apartment. So Jonathan goes to City Hall to fix the computer.

Mortimer will not be quiet and go to sleep. Not for his mother, or his father, or his seventeen sisters and brothers, not even for the police.