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Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birth

This gentle and humorous story gives youngsters the reassuring message that the world cherishes children.

Josiah Hensons life is an epic tale of one mans battle against evil and ignorance. By the time he was six, Josiah had been sold three times.

Fifty-Two Sundays: From the Pulpit of the Padre is a response to the many requests for copies of David Rowland's sermons and addresses. Selecting has not been an easy task.

"This is the story of a man and his owl. But what a man and what an owl!

From drawing rooms of Victorian Britain to Ontario kitchens, rituals of afternoon tea have always delighted.

Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events.

2010 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner Bliss’s life becomes anything but blissful when she encounters the world of rural pot cultivation.

2014 Arthur Ellis Award — Shortlisted Following the money trail gets Tate and Brown into a lot of trouble.

An unexpected conflict forces Verna to re-examine her life. What was it Donald used to say? "When it comes to children, you pay now or pay later.

The invasion attempt on Upper Canada by a new and vastly improved American army in the first six months of 1814.

Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers.

Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life.

Dying is the best way to revive your musical career … even if you’re not really dead.