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A sassy collection of vivid and moving stores portraying edgy modern lives in highly-charged relationships. Not for the faint of heart, Crane's humour has a dark, almost sinister, edge.

Annette Gershon’s odyssey from depression-era Winnipeg to Stalinist Russia and back to Canada in the 1950s is both the seldom-told story of those who actually made that hopeful, doomed,  journey, a

The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things.

A woman carries a placard bearing the question “Are you content to be nothing?” as she conducts her way through the interconnected stories of this thought-provoking collection.

In Extended Families: A Memoir of India, award-winning author Ven Begamudré traces the history of both sides of his family, telling a story that is both timeless and universal."My grandmother’

How can the remains of long-dead dinosaurs help save a modern family farm? For Daniel, things can't get a lot worse.

Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference.

It is six years since Canadian forces began their long struggle to hold Kandahar province.

Eliza, now fourteen, has been studying magic and gaining a rep-utation for her power.

Tobin lives in two worlds. The son of a mayor, he must be loyal to the dominant Forenzian Empire, but he cares more about the ancient and suppressed world of Shadonia.

Millie's life as she knows it comes to a screeching halt, however, when her parents decide to separate.

Transported to medieval Germany, Jason and his friends Charlotte and Squid have to use their wits and the power of a magical bugle to help the people of Coburg fight for freedom.

Things aren’t as they appear at Government House, as Sam and J.J.

From one of Canada’s most exciting new Métis voices, Lisa Bird-Wilson, comes a book whose recurring themes include the complexities of identity, belonging/not belonging, Aboriginal adoption, loss a

13-year-old Nell Mackelwain has to share her mother, a Canadian peacekeeper, with the world, when she just wants her home in Edmonton, helping her deal with the bullies at school.