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Fifteen-year-old Charlie stays home from school so he can help his older brother, Tom, who is in a hip-to-toe cast after breaking his leg in a football game.

After dealing with the grizzly murder of a sexual assault victim near her cottage in Huntsville, Ontario, Robin MacFarland, the feisty Home and Garden reporter for a major Toronto paper, feels she

The poems in Any Waking Morning probe deeply into love, loss, and life's darker dilemmas.

Written over a period of three years and across a range of styles and lengths, Walking with Albert is Keith Weaver's first short story compilation.

In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria's reign over India.

Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe.

Ninety-year-old Mitra has much history behind her.

This is the story of Levi Pepperfield, who tries to navigate his future while indulging in the sorrows of his past.

Despite decades of women's participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and eval

In almost 40 per cent of households in North America, dogs are kept as companion animals. Dogs may be man's best friends, but what are humans to dogs?

Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship.

Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us.

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps.

How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters?

The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology.