Part memoir, part ‘secrets of the sculptor’s craft’, part celebration of Canadian culture and talent Life and Bronze is the story behind Ruth Abern...

Paul Cairns, the narrator of this story, is a young journalist with a penchant for the occult. Prompted by a mysterious recurring nightmare, he see...

It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing ...

When her mother takes her own life after her father leaves her, therapist Marcy Jordan vows to open a clinic helping the broken-hearted. Although h...

Love can move mountains and overcome all obstacles. But can it survive death? As this new collection shows, love beyond the grave is often more pow...

Rostam is Iran's greatest mythological hero, a Persian Hercules, magnificent in strength and courage. As recounted in the tenth-century Book of Kin...

In 15th-century Florence, a frenzy of artistic creativity produced some of the world's greatest masterpieces in architecture, sculpture, and painti...

For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renown...

These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy's chest, a sto...

What is the soul? asks Rumi, the poet. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. Rumi and the Red Handbag...

Living in 2002, Stella Mante can remember back two thousand years when she was a ten-year-old girl named Mary whose best friend is a boy she nickna...

When asked by a friend why he recently he had been writing only poetry, Marvin Cohen, octogenarian author of many novels, stories, essays and plays...

In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale's Back presents a host of Eastern Canada's brightest literary talen...

Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, twelve-year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away. His new foster par...

At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritari...

Russian Folk Tales: A Reader is designed for English-speaking students of Russian language and literature. Each of the eight texts, which are grade...

Bill Trevillian is as ruggedly handsome as he is bold and brave. Kip Lee is as strikingly beautiful as she is fiery and fearless. And they've got s...

Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...

They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mex...

In Samara the Wholehearted, Bauer transports her readers to the slightly tilted world of Summerland, a communal summer retreat, where a series of u...

What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa...

This book is the republication of the authors earlier work of the same title. It covers Steenburg's investigations of the ongoing Sasquatch questio...

Text in Arabic. Four men, all worlds apart, come together to plan to robbery unlike anything ever attempted in Swedish history: Sami Farhan, the Ir...

Can the Chinese foil a US oil grab in the Middle East? This topical spy thriller captures the turmoil of the War on Terror and weaves agents of the...

The Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books o...

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short ...

Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes...

After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Sas...

Fans of the horror genre will enjoy this enthusiastic romp through the pantheon of great and not so great films of terror. A.S. Mott examines the m...

A fun collection of twisted stories just perfect for reading aloud. Here are a few examples: Tempted by an alluring payoff, a teenager delivers a l...

An ambitious future surgeon on his psychiatry rotation is assigned a patient who reveals to him information about an organized plot to control the ...

For SF and fantasy enthusiasts who love to escape to unknown worlds. As a master of the art of narrative and one of the leaders in the Golden Age o...

In 1915 the father of modern science fiction contributed to the long list of adventures of the 18th century super-hero, Baron Münchausen. Hugo Gern...

Illustrated by Alan Lyons. In 2060, Scotland was annihilated in a series of merciless nuclear strikes from Luxembourg. In response to a curious pub...

One afternoon, a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village. The local police tell her mother and the villagers she has been taken by a wil...