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A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2...

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with...

"The last time I talked to my mother, she announced that she hated my father." So begins Brian Fawcett’s compelling new book about happiness and a...

From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone, comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her twenty-something over-adventurous...

This is a gripping, page-turning memoir of a US-trained Iranian fighter pilot who flew in the Shah of Iran’s and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s air force...

In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning noveli...

Visionary social entrepreneur David Pecaut’s life demonstrates how to make a positive impact on a community. City builder David Pecaut has been cal...

This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture b...

Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid’s self- portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman c...

Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O...

Finalist 2015 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-Fiction  Finalist 2015 Lambda Literary Award "It would be one thing for me to leave, anot...

Winner of the 2009 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousa...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field gu...

Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal...

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in th...

Mental illness doesn’t have to be a prison sentence. International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions s...

We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter mon...

During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collec...

Alfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of learning and social pro...

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction:In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah...