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Shortlisted for the Donner Prize and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardDroughts, floods, and contamination of fresh water in the american Southwest, in the Great Lakes region, in Australia, in

Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way.

The new reader's guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin's literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and

When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen.

The author, an outstanding cricketer in his own right, here sets down his experiences as cricket correspondent, political journalist, author, and cricketer of note.

One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again.

In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores.

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardFor the first time, the fu

When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns forty-five she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay with plans to transform it into a charming B & B.

Douglas Glover’s raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one month.

In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour tha

A Quill & Quire Book of the YearTen years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories.

When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever. Alone in London, she discovers a new-found freedom and her independence.

A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants.

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