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Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather.

How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us?

In this lavishly produced hardcover volume, Plaskett has created an autobiography as colourful as his finest paintings.

The second volume in the trilogy that revisions Homer’s Odyssey is once again told from the viewpoint of Alexi, the young Trojan boy.

This biography explores what drove William Smith to change his name, in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, to Amor De Cosmos.

This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr.

This historical time-travel novel, for children ten and up, is the third volume in Cathy Beveridge's ongoing series on Canadian disasters.

Falling in love creates an enchanted time, and when it’s on the magical Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during WWII, it is never to be forgotten.

In his fifth book about language, Howard Richler moves from A to Z with a specifically chosen word for every letter of the alphabet.

This bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin's ground-breaking novella. Alone in exotic Naples, an impassioned François anticipates the arrival of girlfriend Hélène.

In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders.

Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of d

In the Sedgewick lecture for 2012, Professor Deborah Cameron investigates the age-old question of whether men and women are different kinds of beings, both physically and intellectually.

An old joke goes like this: What’s the difference between a good girl and a nice girl?

In Outlaw in India, the fifth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog begin their exploration of India with a piece of bad