Lorimer imprint: 307 books

Isaac Brock

Canada's Hero in the War of 1812

by Cheryl MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012

Isaac Brock is the best-known figure of the War of 1812. He is widely credited as the military leader who frustrated the United States in its ambition to invade and take over Canada. Brock was born in the English Channel Island of Guernsey, where his limited combat experience did nothing to...

Canada under Attack

Irish-American veterans of the Civil War and their Fenian campaign to conquer Canada

by Cheryl MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015

Most history books make a joke of it, but Canada faced a serious military threat in the 1860s -- and came under multiple attacks by military forces based in the United States. It took the combined effort of British troops in Canada and the Canadian militia -- plus some good luck -- to repel the invaders...
by Jacqueline Guest
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012

Aiden is the roughest player on his Calgary hockey team, as likely to be in the penalty box as on the ice. When he hits another player after a game, however, he's charged with assault and sentenced to one hundred hours of community service. He's bored and annoyed when he's forced to help Eric,...
by Faye Harnest
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012

Zadie thinks she's tough and indestructible, like the superheroes she draws in her graphic novels. She'll fight any girl who dares to take her on, and she always wins -- until, one day, she loses. Beat up and riled up, she quickly gets her revenge and hospitalizes the next girl she challenges. Scared...
by Ann Duffy, Julianne Momirov
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014

Family violence is hard for most people to understand. The fact that we are more likely to be killed or assaulted by family members than anyone else seems incredible. Yet for many Canadians the family is a dangerous place, far from the haven of love and security that we would like to believe. In...
by Teresa McWhirter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

Ever since Ariel's mom has been too sick to work they've been moving to progressively lower income neighbourhoods. Then they seem to hit rock bottom--Vancouver's downtown east side, Canada's poorest postal code. Here Ariel gets on the wrong side of a gang of tough girls at school after receiving unwanted...
by Christine Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

D'Arcy is a 16-year-old overachiever and a budding newshound. When her classmate Zania's mother goes missing, D'Arcy thinks she's found the mother of all scoops. She's determined to solve the mystery and capture it all on film. But Zania's troubles are no game. She suspects her mother's drug-dealing...
by Michele Martin Bossley
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012

When Zach Thomas broke his wrist going into the boards early in the hockey season, he thought he was done for the year. But as his Cochrane, Alberta, Pee Wee team gets ready for the play-offs, his doctor tells him he's healed-up enough to pay. Zach isn't so sure. His fear of being checked hard...
by Cristy Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Bullied at school and ignored at home, Travis has a secret: cutting himself with a razor blade is the only thing that lets him control the pain in his life and find some peace. When he becomes friends with Chyvonne, a new girl at school, he doesn't know how to get close to her without revealing his...

The Reconciliation Manifesto

Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing. Manuel and Derrickson...
by Kelsey Blair
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Jazz Smith-Mohapatra is the toughest and best player on her basketball team -- and this year she's determined to lead the team to a championship win. But in the last game of the regular season, Jazz sets an offensive move called a pick and roll. A player on the other team doesn't see it coming; she...
by Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system,...
by Steven Barwin, Gabriel David Tick
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

Mason's basketball team, the Cabbagetown Raptors, is going co-ed after seven successful seasons. He's pretty open-minded about the change, especially after he meets Cindy, a really top-notch player. The other guys aren't so sure. Before long everyone has taken sides, and the Raptors' chances...
by Sandra Diersch, Gerri London
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012

Skin Deep is a sincere and heart-felt look at a teenager's struggle to come to terms with her mother's mortality while struggling with her own ideas of beauty. When her mother suddenly announces that she has breast cancer, Cori's world seems to end. Things that once seemed so important to her...
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