Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award for Fiction A much-praised collection of short stories about old woman, from acclaimed writer Sharon Butala Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of…

In a climate-ravaged future where the secrets of the past have been lost and knowledge is forbidden, Mordecai Crow must solve a mysterious murder. Mordecai Crow is a drifter, stuck between two worlds and belonging to neither. While searching for his long-lost family, he becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy when he seeks refuge in…

Based on decades of research, advocacy, and engagement with research ethics policy at all levels, Will C. van den Hoonaard chronicles the negative influence of medical research-ethics frameworks on social science research-ethics policies. He argues that the root causes of the current ethics disorder in the social sciences are the aggressive audit culture in universities…

Everyone can live a happier life, especially those with chronic illnesses. Brian Orend’s smart and accessible guide for people with illness, injury, or other challenges provides both a satisfying look into happiness as well as practical steps for living a measurably happier life. When Brian Orend began having debilitating seizures that his doctors couldn’t explain,…

By examining how writers and performers have conceptualized and negotiated issues of personal identity in their work, the essays collected in Selves and Subjectivities investigate emerging representations of self and other in contemporary Canadian arts and culture.…

This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind. The main narrative describes the deterioration of a long-term relationship, interweaving poems dealing with the loneliness of immigration and the anxiety of separation…

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose—or are forced—to leave home and familiar places. Migration. A transformation of time, place, and being . . . WHO ARE THE SHADES WITHIN US? We are called drifters, nomads. We are…

Book 1 in the trilogy introduces a world much like our own but with magick and those with the power to control it, for good and for evil. In this first tale we meet Shame, discover the unique circumstances of her creation, and follow her choices as her true nature is revealed.…

When the purest woman on earth allows herself one selfish thought it is enough to conceive the most evil woman the world has ever known.…

The third book in this acclaimed series finds Virtue once more a prisoner of her daughter, Shame. Her only ally, Merritt, is firmly under Shame’s enchantment, and Slur’s plan to unleash his demon hordes from hell seems certain to be put into action. Can Virtue outwit Shame and save the world from becoming hell’s plaything?…

About the Book Faith and facts collide on a Creationist themed golf course when the daughter of a widowed creationist falls for the adopted son of a gay palaeontologist. Unbeknownst to the lovers a prehistoric dino-shark has emerged from hibernation leaving a trail of death and destruction. Will the creationist and palaeontologist settle their ideological…

Meaghan Marie Hackinen’s follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire North American continent from Oregon to Virginia. Without the aid of a support crew, Hackinen must rely entirely on her wits, ingenuity and sheer determination to finish this…

Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. Capelotti details Leigh Smith’s five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.…

The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and poets who have been labelled by the world-teachers, parents, and peers-as shy. Here, they proudly own up to their shyness, and their message is clear: they don’t need to be “cured”! Why…

When Jennifer Towers, a young professional with a promising career in dentistry, is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the tag to find its artist—and the victim’s killer. In the fourth and darkest novel to date from mystery author Garry Ryan, a perplexing murder investigation leads to the distressing…

The case studies of this volume point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of working class interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role—that of a modernizing force advancing…

This book addresses the history of social work in Africa, particularly Ghana; the domination of western knowledge in the field; and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs relevant to the current African context.…

Marguerite Pigeon takes readers on a roundabout tour of locations around the world in this wonderfully not-boring collection of stories. From the multi-talented author of Inventory and Open Pit comes a new collection of short stories, filled with lost souls drifting through exotic locales, reinventing themselves on the fly.…

South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hackinen battles with the elements in Vancouver Island’s dense northern forests and frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and…

A’isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery and sentenced to death. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious young Canadian journalist who meets A’isha and writes an impassioned article about her plight. But when the article sets off waves of outrage and violence, Sophie is forced to come to terms with the…