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Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfill

Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and ReLit Award (Novel)Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of histo

Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin.

Wit and comedy, Abigail Wendover's thwarted romance and marriage to a fortune hunter. Light and entertaining reading.

A CNQ Editors’ Book of the YearDoes faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania?

A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from s

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her.

Neil Boyd does not spare his own blushes as he gives a lively and authentic account of his initiation into priestly life.

Former journalist Bill Tyrrell charters his yacht to a charitable organisation which takes juveniles out of prison and out onto the sea.

One year has passed since Roan, Alandra, and the children escaped from the Brothers.

Leslie can’t seem to avoid trouble, whether it’s at school or at home. Just as life seems at its lowest, Jason McCready, the exceedingly cool new guy at school, enters her life.

Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about flying back to his parents’ research camp in the African savanna.

Two people are determined that Gillian will not claim her inheritance.

Louella hates her name. She’s obsessed with colors and when she gets upset, she yells herself hoarse.

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry.