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Ambitious, emotionally resonant stories about the lives of women and girls in Vietnam over the past thousand years.

Ruth grew too fast.

An oil spill on the West Coast coincides with a loved one's death. An enigmatic young musician experiences the rise and fall of his career, as told through videos posted to YouTube.

In the early 1960s, a young girl and her brother move to their grandparents’ flourmill in Dodoma in newly-independent Tanzania.

Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on the Mariola. The Cruise is not just any cruise. It’s the whole shebang. It's around the world.

In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease.

In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape.

This is the story of Barry and Lupus. Barry, an exhausted newspaper owner physically and economically on the ropes, meets Lupus, a wolf-German Shepherd cross, at an animal shelter.

In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinic

Elsa is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the early 1960s.

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets.

Concise and practical, Fundamentals of Directing is a distillation of Ric Knowles’s twenty-five years of experience as a director, teacher of directing, and dramaturge across Canada.

Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town.

A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871.

Neuropsychologist Helen Harlow is an expert at understanding the functions of the human brain, and yet her own remains a mystery.