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When Stella Crown hires a new farmhand to help run her Pennsylvania dairy business, she gets more than she bargained for in a Mennonite widow who arrives burdened not only with grief, but with rumo

Professional golfer Alan Saxon, finding himself short of money, is grateful to get an offer to fly off to Australia to take part in a prestigious Skins Game.

When Baron Herbert returns from crusade he grows increasingly morose and withdraws from his family.

In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin.

It is the end of the Great War and returning soldiers are bringing their shattered minds back home with them.

Cyclists is an exquisite collection of hundreds of candid photographs. This book is a selection of 150 men and women riding bicycles on Toronto’s streets in 2011 and 2012.

Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing speed and fragmentation of modern life.

It’s called a psychomanteum. A room entirely lined with mirrors. The walls, the floor, the ceiling. Everything. A dark but endlessly reflecting chamber. A reflection is a tricky thing.

The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost 60 years.

At Dempsey’s Lodge, nothing is what it seems. Dempsey’s Lodge is the perfect getaway for families and young couples: the fishing is good, the air is fresh, the scenery is breathtaking.

Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chester the Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principal responsible for his demise.

Hold the Note is a wide-ranging collection unified by a jazzy, syncopated writing style — dynamic, sometimes experimental, often playful, yet always passionately engaged, sensual and visceral.

The radio show celebrating Jack Layton is up on Gathering Voices.

In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminde

“There is a shadow of a boy walking within me. His spirit is lightning fire. He will not be shackled. At birth, I was labeled a girl. My name is Jazz.