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The celebrated poet hailed by Ursula K. Le Guin as a "storyteller, truth-teller, and visionary" gives us a mesmerizing new collection of poems that are funny, wise, moving, and surprising. How many gods can dance on the head of Lorna Crozier's pen? The poet Lorna Crozier has always been...

Michael Cooper has his life together. He is the successful lawyer all his friends turn to when they find themselves in trouble, and he and his beautiful wife just welcomed their newborn daughter to the world. In just under two years, he went from a cocky bachelor to a quintessential family man with...

Life Brings so Many Questions... Who has the answers? “Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?” High school seniors Johnny and Julie ask these questions as they search for their true identity. Facing what they think are unsolvable family problems, they meet a strange old man...

Verdict in Blood is Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into – and out of – trouble. In...

First print-published by Wildside Press in 2000 Claire came to the English village to find her best friend, Melinda, who’d vanished after performing in a play which re-creates a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial. What she found was a murder mystery—and a man. A man who, like her,...

From the author of Boys, Bombs, and Brussels Sprouts and The Tumbling Mirth: Remembering the Air Force comes yet another uproarious ascent into high-altitude insanity. And this time, J. Douglas Harvey includes delightful anecdotes sent to him by “WDs” -- as enthusiastic and proud as any member...

Why does evil exist in this world? If God is all powerful, why doesn't He prevent it? Or does He have a reason for staying His hand? Do the choices we make in life really matter? Shelly is about to experience the turmoil of these questions as her faith in God is challenged. She and her...

A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets. The poems in Lorna Crozier's rich and wide-ranging new collection, a modern bestiary and a book of mourning, are both shadowed and illuminated by the passing of time, the small mechanics of the body as...

Ramblings of a Middle Aged Drag Queen is a short play about an over-the-hill drag queen who is interviewed by a young reporter in a Toronto gay bar in the 1990s. Running time is approximately 12 minutes.

Billy Penland began his life as a soldier at the age of twelve when he went with his father and other East Texas ranchers to eliminate a band of rustlers in 1880. His father died shortly thereafter, and his mother remarried to a drunkard who beat his wife. When Billy nearly shot his step-father for...

A Tale within the worlds of the Ancient Breeds series. This story takes place before Black Pyramid.Myaten and Kiros travel through time to find Atlantis in the hopes of an alliance to fight the BloodSeekers. Will Queen Larissa unite her elite warriors in a war not of her Time? On this journey, Kiros learns about his past which will ultimately change the course of his life.

Sara Jeannette Duncan’s classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by “the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated...

Paul Vermeersch examines the forces that divide us and isolate us as individuals in both the natural and man-made worlds, at the moments when those worlds intersect, and in the places where we live and work. During a violent row between teenage boys, a starling explodes like a hand grenade. A clutter...

You can turn your child’s terrible twos into terrific twos. Tantrums are so common among two-year-olds that parents often expect the "terrible twos." But parents can help their toddlers (and themselves!) avoid the frustrations that lead to tantrums. An experienced educator and parent shares simple tips that can turn the terrible twos into the terrific twos.