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When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research stati

Every now and then, readers find themselves fortunate enough to come across a writer whose work fits their lifestyle and belief systems so well that the relationship between writer and reader seems

Jasmina Odor’s rich writing invites us to step into the shoes of Croatian immigrants living in Canada, and the Croatian soldiers and families who remain behind.

Back from a year's sabbatical in New Zealand, P.I. Kate Kinsella is reluctantly caught up in a case which will challenge both her own skills and those of the local police force.

The gluttonous, jazz-loving character of Neil Connelly in John Lent’s So It Won’t Go Away can never get enough out of life, no matter how much he over-indulges his desires: “Drinking, smoking, sex:

Through the filter of the human condition, Strange Bedfellows – a new anthology from Thistledown Press – examines relationships at every stage, in stories and essays filled with humour, grace, and

Canada is a vast country defined by its untamed wilderness, diverse ecologies, and natural beauty.

Five guests sit around the breakfast table but this morning they are quite subdued, because the sixth guest has been murdered.

Shimmerdogs is the story of young Lester B. Hopkins — Mike to almost everyone except his mother, Master Corporal Alice Mackelwain.

Runaway teen Annabel, nicknamed Ghost, doesn’t speak.

Stephen Bett's 12th book, Sound Off: a book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current ja

Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for Quebec, is abruptly recalled from a course she is teaching at Quantico for a gruesome duty.

The characters from Susan Musgrave’s A Cargo of Orchids are back in this brilliantly engaging novel.

Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan M

After the move to Delwood, Matt Humphreys, sixteen, comes to understand that his father, Jack, is a broken man not looking to heal after the death of his wife.