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Allison, a retired music teacher and lifelong musician, was advised in 2011 that she had a "giant" brain aneurysm, after experiencing olfactory hallucinations. In a twelve hour operation the aneurysm was "clipped". Following surgery Allison had severe cognitive and physical deficits. This is the story of Allison's remarkable recovery.

Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.

Arab-Canadian writer and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, a gay man who grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Yemen, delivers a courageous, brutally honest, engaging and often funny memoir of family life over six decades. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West in the 1980s, his once-liberal family fell slowly in with hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping the Arab world at that time.

The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal, is finding his way to Canada and to a gripping unexpected encounter with his lost family.

Rubenstein offers a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course--and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it.

"Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life. So did Ronald Reagan in the United States. Now Canada has experienced a similar, dramatic shift to a new kind of politics, which author Donald Gutstein terms Harperism. Among its key tenets: A weakened labour movement--and preferably the disappearance of unions--will contribute to Canada's economic prosperity. Cutting back government scientific research and data collection will improve public policy-making.

"Charlie is a compelling account of an English boy who is sent to an orphanage following the death of his father because his heartbroken mother is too poor to feed her children. Separated from his family, Charlie works his way out of poverty to eventually become a high-ranking member of the RCMP. Charlie’s story, like many others, is an inspiring part of our Canadian heritage, and will fascinate adults as well as children." --from publisher

"At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped and others dreaded.