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Fifteen murderers buried in the yard of the jail where they were hanged. A detective haunted by their crimes. The facts are true. Their stories might be.Mysteries to be solved, lives to be imagined, crimes to be dissected. From 1872 to 1930, fifteen murderers were...
“Four drinks isn’t a binge. That’s après-ski on a Tuesday.”Alcohol has informed every phase of Veronica Woodruff’s life. Growing up, her parents’ addiction took the family from wealth and privilege to destitution and eventual homelessness. Bartending provided the income...
In this second volume of the Better Next Year collection of true stories, discover more dashed holiday hopes, Christmas catastrophes, and slender, heartbreaking shards of joy. Upon A Midnight Clear brings together emerging authors from across the country who share their...
Women have been playing hockey since the beginning—but their fights took place off the ice. Hockey wasn’t meant to include girls.Women attracted to the speed, finesse and physicality of the game had to overcome condescending attitudes, lack of resources, legal barriers...
Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life. In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis Nation begins negotiating terms for...
No one believes Marta can get better—not her sister, not her father—and she doesn’t care. But when a troubled, enigmatic acquaintance from her therapy group goes missing, Marta discovers what she does care about: finding Thomas Zimmerman.For...
Strange things done in the midnight sun . . . Ready for romance and adventure, two sisters take summer jobs as live-in waitresses on the edge of the Arctic Circle. The big-city girls soon learn that the Klondike still exists, and that everyone at the Hotel Beringia...
Christmas is trumpeted as a time of peace, joy, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when circumstances conspire against them.Recollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging voices from across...
Eva’s dad is dead. Her mother isn’t, but ought to be, says Aunt Mathilde. Time to move on . . . Moving from Nova Scotia, Eva tries not to care. She’s already dropped out of school and is washing dishes for a living. Despite her aunt’s...
When Lizzy is forced to move to the Adventist commune of Stillwater, she is sure the end times have begun. She’s not wrong.Sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite...
When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable ‘good girl’ discovers she’s a fighter. Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done what her loving but demanding multiracial family expects. Far from her Vancouver home,...
A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints.Set on the Canadian...
Is delivering a swift death really a higher calling? Or is it just government-sanctioned murder?John Radclive hates being called Hangman. He is no murderous thug; he is a highly trained executioner who relies on science to bring God’s mercy to condemned criminals....
For marginalized athletes past and present, achievement can bring celebrity without equality and recognition without opportunity.In many ways, Ontario’s Chatham-Kent region is a microcosm of Canadian multiculturalism. As a terminus of the Underground Railroad, it...
Man and mouse: comrades who together navigate a world of saints and sinners, and crimes both real and imagined.Spence is lost—the brief optimism of his early retirement and bold move from Vancouver to Montréal has devolved into a lonely round of French...
Shortlisted for the 2022 Hamilton Literary AwardsWhat would you risk to save your children?Jolie Phuong Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed after the communists took over in 1975. Identified as a...
A story for every misfit who ever thought they were the only ones without all the answers. Robert O’Brien loves cars. Growing up in Dublin, they provided a welcome refuge from the human interaction he found so difficult. His father’s race car, a BMW E30 M3...
How an ordinary family fell into the dark world of white supremacy, and how love ultimately triumphed over hate. As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she...
His only weapon was a cellphone. When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. He refused to return to Syria for compulsory military service and lived illegally before being deported to Malaysia...
A funny and poignant story about coming of age after you’ve already grown up. Sloane Sawyer had it all planned—she and her best friend Stephie would graduate from high school, get out of Tippett Valley and have dazzling complementary careers. She would also have a...
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