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Doubting Yourself to the Bone is a story about the nature of grief, about what it means to be a parent in the face of great sorrow, the idea of re-invented love and hope.

When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down.

To all who knew him, Etienne Morneau lived unremarkably. Raised in an orphanage, his parents unknown, people considered him reserved, unfeeling, and antisocial.

Ruby Swanson's memoir about her son coming out as gay at the age of sixteen, how she responded, how she learned to accept and celebrate her son's sexuality, and how she became a public ad

For Bluma Goldberg, the teenaged daughter of a Jewish bootlegger, Prohibition-era Chicago is the furthest place one can get from law and temperance.

Flying with Amelia chronicles the dreams and struggles of a cast of unforgettable characters through more than a hundred years and across a vast landscape as they face challenges and find courage,

Twenty-eight-year-old Will, a teacher living in Montreal's gay village, has spent the last few months recovering from a breakup with his first serious boyfriend, Max.

In the Great Fire of Smyrna (1922), Kivelli lost everything: her family, her friends, her social position, and her future.

Dany has to uncover his family's secret in order to save his father.

Major League Baseball player Zep Baker gets help from a neuroscience researcher in order to pursuade his wife to take him back in a 'brain-versus-heart' love debate.

Set in 1961 Canada, In a Wide Country tells the story of twelve-year-old Jasper and his mother, Corrine, traveling together from Winnipeg to a farm in Alberta, then Edmonton, then to Vancouver.

"A coming-of-age novel about a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Toronto in the 1960s with a father who tortures him psychologically.

Kate Beaufort is sent by her inventor brother Jack to meet a prospective suitor in China when she discovers that her brother's inventions are used by the British Secret Service.

The story of a thirteen-year-old boy in London growing up during the second world war.