Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause-his own. Europe is at war, and he'll fi...

Noah, the adopted Native son of a white ranching family is caught in the middle of his parents' war. Educated in Victoria he returns to manage the ...

The novel is based on the traditional Ukrainian folk song "Oi, ne khody Hrytsiu". The tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poison...

In On the Eighth Day, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the world's problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and ...

Sixteen-year-old Randy Watson isn't sure if the classmate he beat to a pulp will survive. Afraid of the consequences, he runs away from a town in n...

One Indian Summer tells the timeless story of a boy growing up on a farm in the 1950s. Steven Moar, a teenager with intellectual leanings, feels an...

Falling in love was never easy for Liam Kirk, until he met Valerie Walters. Their relationship -- if you could call it that -- was strained, least ...

Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world-they're here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback-a character...

It is 2025. Four astronauts undertake a nine-month mission to the desolate planet Mars with one goal in mind: to start a society that is more beaut...

This is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep...

El Salvador, 2005: a group of Canadian human-rights activists are taken hostage by a former revolutionary fighter who demands that a new gold mine ...

The doomed Chinese city of Shunkien was being systematically destroyed. Japan's war machine was pounding wreckage into ashes-wiping out a city that...

As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...

As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...

From his opulent office on Manchester Town Hall's top floor, Councillor Andy King pulls the levers that run the city. The consummate politician for...

A baby girl is born in the middle of the Second World War, and survives in a miraculous way thanks to the determination of her mother and the good ...

When one of Kuwait’s richest businessmen unexpectedly contacts author Taleb Al-Rifai’, he has an unusual request: write a biographical novel that t...

Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Fiction Award. Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners’ unions, Over My De...

Overnight Sensation is the independent and richly entertaining sequel to Colleen Curran's hilarious first novel, Something Drastic. Lenore Rutland,...

Told from the viewpoint of a closet in a summer house, this tale describes the passing of a year by telling the stories of those who come and go in...

The ancient hungry stones of Coptos in Upper Egypt have soaked up the stories of the inhabitants along with their blood. When archaeologists uneart...

This book, through interconnected short stories, follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton,...

A novel written halfway between poetry and prose, Paper Trail questions the rat race work ethic many of us adhere to, more often out of necessity t...

A novel in two voices, 'Parachute Silk' consists of letters between two women friends who discuss in depth their feelings and share their lives by ...

While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to...

She inspected her knitting. A yarn imagines itself, you know, she murmured, from separate strands. Every story is made of strands, too, of worlds t...

In the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton's mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave hi...

A story of love and loss, racial prejudice and the search for selfhood in two women from generations 170 years apart. The backdrop of the 1840 Fren...

A monography on the German Lutheran hymn writer Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676).

Now in its first paperback edition, this is a wickedly funny satire of the Hollywood film industry and its peculiar marriage of vision and ambition...

In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of t...

Julia Hoop, a twenty-five-year-old counselling psych student, is working on her thesis, exploring an idea which makes her graduate supervisor squir...

With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals othe...

In the Kastner affair, as it is known, a seemingly insignificant refugee from Hungary accuses an important member of David Ben Gurion s Mapai party...

In his eminence, his iconic status, and his masterful command of enormous fictional realms in several huge novels, Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966) ...