“…art has a world of her own where science is not so absolute.” J.E.H. MacDonald (circa 1925), as cited in J.E.H. MacDonald Up Close: The Artist’s Materials and Techniques. Yet science does shine, as Kate Helwig and Alison Douglas escort the reader through the many layers that make up a sampling of J.E.H. MacDonald’s iconic …
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor is a rich, beautifully wrought family saga about love, truth and identity. Every family has stories that help to define who they are. The McNair family, struggling Irish farmers in southern Ontario, proudly trace their story back to their great-great-grandfather who fell in love with, and married, a …
In a coastal city, a displaced woman, having searched for her missing daughter in vain for weeks, throws herself into the ocean. Another woman, pregnant with her first child, witnesses the suicide. In the first part of the book, a spiral-like structure with the disappearance at its center documents the weeks before and after the …
Against the Machine: Evolution is a richly imagined story that also serves as a cautionary tale for what might happen if we don’t take better care of the environment.
A defiant, tender comic about coming home again, forgiveness, and trauma. Fire Monster is such an interesting graphic novel. Did I like it? Hmmm. A tough question to answer. It was mostly so interesting, so genre-bending, so creative in telling its story, that I’m not sure it even mattered if I liked it or even …
It’s November and a savage murder has been committed in an affluent Toronto neighborhood. The brutality of the murder and the severe lack of evidence appears to indicate the perfect crime.
Tony Vicar is wrestling against the ordinary patterns his life has fallen into, until dark secrets and a dangerous woman from the past threaten to upend it all.
Dorothy Borutti lives in the beautiful French seaside resort town of Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais with her British mother and Italian father, and vacations in the south of France each winter. Sandy MacPherson is a young Canadian lawyer, raised on the wide-open prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada in an era of economic, and environmental, ruin. Little do …
This is not a book about Vikings. Not really. It’s a memoir plus a medieval story, penned by a native of Newfoundland with a knowledge and passion for his birthplace.
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the twentieth century.
Prize-winning author Susan Fletcher’s new novel is an absorbing whodunnit that also looks at—and celebrates—the passions, regrets, secrets and adventures of one woman’s extraordinary and inspiring life.
A debut short story collection investigating the strange and unexpected intersections of loneliness and connection.
Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World’s Largest Syrian Refugee Camp offers an intimate encounter with Syrian food practices and traditions as they have been handed down through generations.
Featuring Sherry Pringle, Kevin Bickford, Pierre Arseneault, and Vanessa Hawkins
A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
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