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Thirteen-year-old Simon and his friend Abbey become embroiled in mysterious and fantastical events surrounding the ancient Egyptian mirror of Simon’s elderly neighbor, Mr. Hawkins.

In Bronze-Age Crete, before horses were common on the island, potter's-daughter Clio continues to raise and train them even though an accident has left her unable to ride.

Dom has had a rough go of things so far.

There's no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner.

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear. In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future.

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond.

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridgeexplores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour.

As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music.

When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE.

This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and cap

Marilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island.

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and ge

American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home.

How does trauma affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog , Dr.