Signature Editions imprint: 69 books

by John Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

In this fifth installment of the Aliette Nouvelle mysteries, Aliette is now, officially, Chief Inspector Nouvelle. After a difficult breakup with former boss and boyfriend Claude Neon, the inspector is transferred from an urban beat in Alsace to the south of France. She is given command of a small...
by Cora Siré
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017

After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at his university on the tragic Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, a writer with a cult-like following known...
by Judith Alguire
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010

Autumn returns to Ontario cottage country. Leaves redden. Pumpkins ripen. And Trevor and Margaret Rudley, proprietors of the Pleasant Inn, expect nothing more than a little Halloween high jinks to punctuate the mellow ambiance of their much-loved hostelry. However, the frost is barely on the pumpkin...

Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School

A Year in a Montreal Pastry School

by Denise Roig
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008

What happens when a 56-year-old fiction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year? In writing that brings to mind the work of journalist/chef Michael Ruhlman, Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School tells the story of eleven months of whipping, spreading...

Out of Grief, Singing

A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss

by Charlene Diehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But her too-brief life is spent in the neonatal intensive care unit, and...

Writing in the Time of Nationalism

From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis

by Linda Leith
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011

Montreal was the literary centre of Canada in the 1940s, a hotbed of literary activity in both English and French crowned by the international success of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute. With the rise of nationalism in both English Canada and Quebec, Toronto emerged...

Tracks

Journeys in Time and Place

by Genni Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents, from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born and spent her early years, to Canada and Mexico, and through Asia, where she has travelled many times, both reconnecting with her sister and witnessing the emergence of new political...

Homo Erectus

And Other Popular Tales of True Romance

by Joel Yanofsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

About one million years ago, when Homo Erectus decided to walk on two legs, he must have sensed that things would never be the same for him again - -that he could kiss his old ape habits goodbye. No more swinging from tree branch to tree branch, no more throwing his feces around. He would have also...

Finding Home in the Promised Land

A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile

by Jane Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying conditions that could allow this to happen in a country like Canada. Finding Home in the Promised Land is...
by John Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011

Pearl Serein is the most desired woman in town. Her lovers are the city’s leading men. She breaks up marriages, and after she dumps her lovers, their careers go down the tubes. Celebrity gossip scribe Tommi Bonneau chronicles Pearl’s every romantic move in the morning paper, Le Cri du Matin.  And...
by Steve Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010

Divorced, approaching forty, Jeff Mott leaves his ex and young daughter behind in Canada and travels to China. He starts teaching in a small town north of Beijing, and meets a young woman, Wang Bian Fu, and falls in love; however, as they get to know each other, Bian Fu’s family life and emotions...
by Margaret Macpherson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011

Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America. The story takes a life-defining twist...
by Susan Zettell
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

Holy Days of Obligation is a collection of short stories which weaves together the family history of a working-class Catholic family. Set in industrial Ontario, the stories are narrated by Bertie, who is the oldest of nine children. Bertie uneasily straddles two worlds: that of her parents, Frank...
by Endre Farkas
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Set in post-war Communist Hungary, in the fictional town of Békes, Never, Again is the story of seven-year-old Tomi Wolfstein, the son of Holocaust survivors who have never told him anything about their past experiences in the concentration camps. The story opens in the fall of 1956, when Tomi is...
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