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Fifteen-year-old Zoe is many things, but confident is not one of them. Perhaps that’s why she prefers the company of animals.

It’s the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha. A secret that looms over her family has reinforced her proud resistance to her family’s Indian identity.

Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results.

New Year’s 1955 is coming up fast, and eleven-year-old Vivian is determined to buy a snazzy new diary.

In a new town, in a new school, fourteen-year-old Terra is experiencing many of the trials and tribulations that face her peers.

Etienne is called on an adventure in the new world… In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure far from his family farm in Quebec.

Eva is a seventeen-year-old from Edmonton in 1979 who is experiencing a world of trouble at home.

This newest anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy and hip to old, bald and bad.

Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birth

This gentle and humorous story gives youngsters the reassuring message that the world cherishes children.

Josiah Hensons life is an epic tale of one mans battle against evil and ignorance. By the time he was six, Josiah had been sold three times.

Fifty-Two Sundays: From the Pulpit of the Padre is a response to the many requests for copies of David Rowland's sermons and addresses. Selecting has not been an easy task.

"This is the story of a man and his owl. But what a man and what an owl!

From drawing rooms of Victorian Britain to Ontario kitchens, rituals of afternoon tea have always delighted.

Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries.