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These dark and exhilarating narratives, reminiscent of Annie Proulx’s Wyoming stories, won the 2015 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award.

A historical work that chronicles the little-known true stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the rail lines.

Disguised as a man, Emily steals aboard Fly Austen’s frigate only to find herself up against unpleasant passengers, Atlantic storms, and battles with the Americans.

First published in 2014, the hardcover edition was shortlisted the following year for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Creative Non-fiction.

Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. The Creator’s Game focuses on the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities from the 1860s to the 1990s, exploring Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations and Indigenous identity…

“Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures.” –John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to…

Harrowing, humorous, and heart-warming, Second Summer of War is a tale of life on the sea in the summer of 1813, through England’s stodgy salons and horrific prison hulks, and into the bloody battles between the British and the Americans on the storm-tossed Atlantic.

Challenges popular beliefs about what happens after death with a lively defense of a literal resurrection of Jesus, exploring the human expectation of “new heavens and new earth” to share details about the existence of the dead who are awaiting a second coming of Christ. 40,000 first printing.

The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.