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Here you will encounter gamblers, adventurers, conmen, and liars. Scalawags, the lot of them. But not all adventurers, conmen, and gamblers are scalawags.

"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another.

Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in.

<p>When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

No one is more surprised than Rennie to hear that his late grandfather, whom he hardly knew, has left a mission for him to fulfill.

Rennie is in Uruguay when his cousins discover a secret cache at their dead grandfather's cottage. Thousands of dollars in foreign currencies. A mystifying notebook.

Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she's ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspap

"Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again.

In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Kenzie's dog is stolen by a dog-fighting operation. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

In this mystery for teen readers, Riley Donovan uncovers the truth about the death of a popular high school football player.

In this middle-grade novel, Rennie ends up on a ski trip with Grandma and stumbles on a murder plot.

In this chilling graphic novel, Truman, the prime suspect in his girlfriend's murder, struggles to find the truth.

The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises.

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight.