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In a land called the Whykatto, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames toward the western horison. As the sky turns fiery, two figures appear, a boy and an old woman.

Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics.

In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them.

"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's m

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime.

With her multiple-award-winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander, Gil Adamson established herself as one of our preeminent fiction writers.

A dazzling portrait of twenty-somethings who grew up on text-messaging and the war on terror.In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling

Toby, Rebecca and Sandra are on holiday north of Auckland when a woman from another time begins to communicate with them through an old photograph.

In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another.

Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.

From bestselling novelist Lynn Coady comes an unforgettable, unflinching story of a life gone wrong.

In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Stat

Here are poems written by Laura between the ages of six and nine, poems about zoos and pets, parents and little brothers.

Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation and the ReLit Awards As a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curs

Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food cos