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After the sudden death of her husband, a woman unearths surprising revelations about the man she was married to for seventeen years. A compulsively readable, darkly funny, posthumous love story about loss, grief, and unresolved relationships. Jessica Waite's successful, charismatic husband, Sean, is on his way home from a business trip when he collapses in a Houston airport. Having begun the day as a wife, by noon she is a widow and the sole living parent to their nine-year-old son.

#1 NYT Bestseller – E.K. Johnston returns to contemporary feminist YA. This story of a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold is a perfect companion to Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. They've experienced the best of what their community has to offer, but they've seen the darker side too. Together, they've decided that it's time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to give.

"An unforgettable work of art." -The National Post. Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way.

Raw and honest - Bearskin Diary gives voice to a generation of First Nations women who have always been silenced, at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Carol Daniels adds an important perspective to the Canadian literary landscape. Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s.

Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Library Journal. A Kirkus Best of 2024 Nonfiction Pick — A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection — An Apple Books Best Book of March — A 2024 NPR "Book We Love" Pick — A SheReads and ELLE Most Anticipated Book of 2024 — An Esquire Best Memoir of 2024 — A USA Today Bestseller — Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction — A Great Group Reads of 2024 from the Women's National Book Association. Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss.

A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds. – 'If you've read The Women by Kristin Hannah I recommend you read this one!!!!' – The Canadian Globe & Mail Bestseller – 'Extremely compelling' – Historical Novel Society – 'Alward tells this story of the wounded survivors and the people who cared for them with affecting grace' – Toronto Star. 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than her sister's life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps.

Au grand plaisir des milliers de lecteurs qui ont dévoré son recueil Mes histoires paru en octobre 2018 — Jean Chrétien reprend la plume pour raconter d'autres épisodes de sa longue et prestigieuse carrière politique. Il n'a pas écrit ses mémoires — rappelle-t-il — ou encore un livre d'histoire. Il s'agissait plutôt de coucher sur papier toutes ces anecdotes et ces souvenirs qu'il aime partager avec ses proches. Dans plusieurs récits — l'humour est au rendez-vous.

Je me suis retournée pour jeter un dernier regard d'envie vers les troupes d'infanterie qui remontaient dans leur TTB. Pendant une fraction de seconde, j'ai songé aux conséquences d'abandonner mon unité pour les rejoindre, en espérant que personne ne le remarquerait. Mais tout le camouflage du monde n'aurait pas suffi à me dissimuler dans un bataillon uniquement composé d'hommes. J'ai couru vers mon camion et y suis montée. J'ai fait un grand sourire à mon caporal, qui me regardait du siège du conducteur.

Someday is a powerful new play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor's distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families. Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmastime 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than ever. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither women are fulfilled.

This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister.