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Shortlisted, Thomas Head Raddall AwardWhen Stella disappears, leaving her toddler and husband behind, her mother Sonia, a widowed farm wife and former lighthouse keeper, struggles to face the possi

Shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOnce, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River

Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the FantasticLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary AwardFrom the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rol

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews the second-grade teacher of his son.

Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba ReadsShortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret

Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home.

Two French explorers arrive in Court to charm two ships from the English King. The rest, as they say, is history . . . Or perhaps not.

An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas.

In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naive 19-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town in the penal colony of New South Wales.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family’s wealth.

In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading.

Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and Frye Academy AwardShortlisted, CLA Young Adult Book Award, Red Maple Award, and University

On Berlin's Glienicke Bridge a captured US spy plane pilot was being traded for a senior KGB agent - a strangely unequal change. So why on earth had the Americans agreed to it?

An affair. A marriage. Accidental encounters. A secret spying mission masquerading as research for a short story on desire.

In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time