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Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him?

Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. Even so, the most recent of his five books of stories came out in 1988, and most are out of print.

Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way.

In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligatio

Young and beautiful Dorian Gray wishes that a newly commissioned portrait would age in place of his splendid body.

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.

A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.

For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known.

Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out.

Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd.

Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles.

Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic.