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It's 1908, and 16-year-old Charlotte O'Dell is forced to move away from her great Aunt Ginny in Victoria, and live and work at the St.

The return of the western - with a definite Canadian twist. The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend.

First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening.

An explosive book that exposes the truth about breast cancer screening. For decades, women have been told that mammograms save lives. Yet many scientists say that this is in fact not true.

A gritty, Canadian Cormac McCarthy. A rich interplay between the characters and their surroundings, an environment that swarms the characters, sometimes inflicting harm. Drugs. Violence. Racism.

An Atlantic Books Today Editor's Pick. Lorna always wanted to stand out, but her career as a competitive swimmer was cut short by a knee injury.

The timeless story of an always-moving river.

The story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a wealthy banker.

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others.

Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors.

Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three young men from San Francisco -- Nick Spataro, his cousin Paolo, and friend Nathan Fein -- and their adventures as memb

Small Things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre.

This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto.

Part memoir of the author's early life--including his experience as a New York City cop and a US Border Patrol agent before he became a college professor--and part polemical discussions of a h

A Japanese detective agency in Midwest America; a sex triangle with the vampish Angela at its apex, and love-sick Pohl and lust-warped Burnett at the receiving ends; a Fat Man devouring a huge lunc