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From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year.

Aunt Effie and her many nieces and nephews are off in search of treasure in the pirate-infested waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the Waikato River.

A. L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted.

Adam discovers a secret, there was not one baby prince, but two. Zephyr, Prince of the Wind, and Zenith, Prince of the Sun.

From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.

What is a Gun Dog? An uncontrolled creature purportedly under our control? These poems strain at the lead. The torque is felt in the line, the verb, the wild thinking in metaphor.

Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century.

Jacob is a normal everyday sort of kid until he discovers he has a suprising ability. Now Jacob must decide how he uses his new-found talent. Will he be a super-hero or a super-villain?

Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of Rob Colter's bestseller provides straightforward solutions in three sections: Grammar and Style, Punctuation, and Spelling and Common Confusions

Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?

In 2005 Jordan and her two younger brothers survive a plane crash but are stranded on the West coast of New Zealand.

A classic of Canadian literature, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity.

The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the sp

Alex has won the race to qualify for the Olympic swimming team but trying to cope with the publicity and Andy's death makes it a long winter before the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and an iTunes Store Best Book Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous,