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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.

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.

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.

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.

In poignant and insightful interviews, Anrénee Englander presents the voices of ten pregnant teens as they discuss their experiences and choices around motherhood, adoption and abortion.

In I AM NOT EMMANUELLE, thirteen-year-old Adele impulsively steals a pack of gum, launching her into a rambling monologue about her inability to live up to the “perfect” sister who died.

Two years have passed since Roan fled the destruction of his village.

The narrator of TRAIN WRECK is looking back at the year she was 15 … She is in love with a bad boy named Johnny.

When Roan’s parents and the people of Longlight perish in a raid, Roan is filled with rage.