This compilation of 76 World War II veterans' stirring recollections presents a remarkable array of stories from all of the major theatres of the w...

Jo, an Italian-American woman, moves to Italy to connect, on a spiritual level, with her nonno, the grandfather she never knew, along the way, she ...

Curtain in two minutes... one minute! Curtain in one minute! Well, here goes. I have been waiting until the very last moment to put on these damn c...

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...

Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...

1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Sco...

At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white ...

In 1934 international entrepreneur and filmmaker Charles Bedeaux hired a team of Canadian men to trail blaze from Edmonton, Alberta, to Telegraph C...

Here is a travelogue for those whose idea of a perfect vacation doesn't involve amusement parks and tourist traps, a guidebook for fans of horror a...

Crimes & Capers; Mobsters & Rumrunners; Canadian Crime Investigations

New England has an alarming underbelly of mystery, murder, and chilling unsolved cases that will shock you. Delve into 20 unsettling incidents of h...

A generation of men who fought for our freedom looks back at their lives; some with melancholy, some with unforgotten energy, and other with reluct...

Experience 42 horrific stories about the world's more extreme killers in this comprehensive tome of grisly lusts and depraved pleasures of people w...

This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...

Much more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of h...

This book documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enoug...

Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money s...

See the North as few have seen it -- through the eyes of author Rick Ranson as he worked on the DEW Line and drill ships in the Arctic. In 'Working...