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Eleven-year-old Nora K. received Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World as a birthday present, and in it she read about Plato’s theory of ideas.

A drifter, arriving in the small western town of Lodestone, accepts the offer of the sheriff's badge and gradually turns the town into a law-abiding community.

Angelic Cheska Marchmont has been a successful and pampered star since the age of four.

A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean.

Set in the Blue Mountains of N.S.W., the story tells of the day that Teddy's father left home to sell lamps and a swagman came to work in return for bed and food.

Charlie has lived in the children's home for so long that he's built a fantasy world around him. Nobody would want to foster him. Or would they?

In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker marches into battle with the boys of Nova Scotia's 25th Battalion.

Winner of British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2017.

Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists.

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to

These are twenty-two personal stories, told by women from practically all backgrounds and persuasions--devout and not-so devout, professionals and housewives, westernized and traditional, wearing j

"With nowhere to turn, penniless widow Grace Yoder travels with her young son to the Amish community of Seven Poplars.

When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a fly-in, northern Ontario reserve, to investigate rumours of a fabricated water crisis and document its deplorable living conditio

While his Freightliner is awaiting repairs in Whitehorse, Yukon, Hunter and fellow driver, Dan (Sorry) Sorenson, kill time with a side trip to bush Alaska where a chance meeting with a young Alaska