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The unforgettable memoir of a family betrayed by a cruel deception. Pauline Dakin, a well-known CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run.

The 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Ten years later, questions are still being asked.

An important check-up on our health-care system--and what urgently needs fixing--from a respected doctor and passionate Medicare advocate. Dr.

Globe and Mail feature columnist Doug Saunders argues we need 100 million Canadians if we're to outgrow our colonial past and build a safer, greener, more prosperous future.

Big, skilled, mean, and nearly indestructible, Howe dominated hockey for decades. Today any bruising forward hopes to be compared with the guy who wore number 9 for Detroit for so many years.

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S.

The intriguing criminal cases of pioneer forensics expert John Vance, "Canada's Sherlock Holmes." Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John F.C.B.

In Sister to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten other brothers and sisters.

In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray.

Bringing together extraordinary stories of daring escapes from prison, POW camps, and other places of incarceration and confinement, this collection draws from every period of history and from ever

The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood draws on interviews with more than 350 local residents, including recent arrivals, descendants of pioneer settlers and the aboriginal inhabi

Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories.

These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild.

The fifth volume in the “Forging a Nation” series begins in 1791. The year a new province is created in the country that will one day be called Canada. The year Hope Cobman’s life turns around.

Philip Resnick’s Footsteps of the Past constitutes a powerful set of reflections on the modern human condition.