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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau.

The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture.

An exploration into Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada’s most outstanding artists.

A Winnipeg Free Press Bestseller!

CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2017) Selection • 1996 Sheila A.

On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A.

A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.

At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong.

Canada’s past is rich with high-flying adventures — whether it’s pilots fighting in the skies or the King of the Rumrunners fleeing the feds! Read their stories in this two-book collection.

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 As Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation’s voice. Power.

New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all.

#1 Calgary Herald Bestseller An investigation of the history and demise of the most controversial North American energy infrastructure project.

A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on. Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope.