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Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad.

Fiction writer Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a.

Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus takes an in-depth look at the critical questions and debates surrounding the issues of patient autonomy, confidentiality, morality, and genetic engineering, amon

The book is a collection of short one-act plays written by students in the Creative Writing Program at UBC and produced at the annual festival, Brave New Play Rites, for public performances.

An irreverent, tragicomic, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind—and growing up On his eighteenth birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital, progressi

"Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters.