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As a pregnant teen, Y. Vonne Beck questioned her very existence-she saw no reason to live. Personal loss, abandonment and humiliation had left her hopeless and alone. The birth of her son gives her life meaning, and that new love triggers her courage to not only keep living, but to thrive. A chance meeting in…

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is…

From Governor-General’s Award-winning writer David A. Robertson comes this special edition of the timeless graphic novel that introduced the world to the awe-inspiring resilience of Betty Ross, and shared her story of strength, family, and culture. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, who tells him her story. Abandoned…

First published in 1952 and 1955, and called the greatest Canadian biography ever written, this edition includes a new introduction by Creighton’s biographer, Donald Wright, and by Peter Waite, Creighton’s very first doctoral student.

Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Ed O’Loughlin returns with an exhilarating technothriller and modern spy novel reminiscent of William Gibson and the golden age of panoramic international espionage fiction. Alice and Michael meet at university: she is a young computer prodigy, he is a hapless engineer. First love is followed by a rift, and then Alice…

From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw…and the treasures of the gods come at a price. This is the age of storm and murder. After the old gods warred and drove themselves…

Despite the urban sprawl, industrialization and endless highway construction, Ontario possesses many hidden corners and lonely roads where the remains of earlier settlements, often constructed with immense effort against impossible odds, now lie forgotten. Some are no more than a few decaying foundations and collapsing houses, while others are littered with the remains of the…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller. Karin Slaughter is back with her first nail-biting standalone since 2018!

A taut, suspenseful new novel from award-winning thriller author Belinda Bauer in which a woman being menaced by a knife-wielding home invader is connected to a string of burglaries in a quaint bedroom community, and the brutal murder that left three children motherless three years before.

“[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism” (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”–and its 5,000 years of unified history–is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day China’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people,…