For a postgrad study, Mel takes a job at the newly reconstructed historical site at Sainte-Marie-among-the-Hurons, where Jean de Brébeuf and seven other missionaries met their tragic ends. But when an obsessed admirer threatens to destroy her academic career, Mel soon learns that delving into Ontario history is no escape from her own past.

Kivelli lost everything in the Great Fire of Smyrna. Now stranded
in the Greek city of Piraeus, populated by gangsters, prostitutes, fortune tellers, and other refugees, she finds herself living in the broom closet of a brothel. Only her singing voice can provide a way to rise above.

Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block and harsh reviews. His best friend, Roy, is a theatre director with lung
cancer and six months left to live. In pursuit of fresh air and
great wine, they go on a road trip to the Okanagan Valley, where Roy rediscovers his passion for theatre. But when he decides to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a winery, disaster ensues.

In the summer of 1974 straight-laced Jay doesn’t like beer,
doesn’t do drugs, and finds the whole hip revolutionary concept
a little convoluted. It comes as no surprise that when she follows her high school crush from Victoria to the University of Toronto, expecting to fall in love, she is instead overwhelmed by throngs
of hippies, judgmental art teachers, and boy-crazy sorority girls.

It is 1933. A journalist travels to the small mining town of Rouyn
in northern Quebec — a community that has become a refuge for Russians, Finns, Ukrainians, Chinese, and Jews. While there, he crosses paths with famed Canadian Marxist Jeanne Corbin, who has come to rally a group of striking workers, and sees his life forever changed.

Eric, a three-year-old from Gaspésie, is a being who lives only for pleasure. Drinking from his bottle, he tastes sugar for the first time, and is immediately hooked. From that point on, Eric and his sister go to greater and more desperate lengths to satisfy their sweet tooth.

On a mysterious assignment at the famed Mexican resort, gay caballero Bradford Fairfax discovers he has far more to worry about than sand fleas and la turista, when a sultry diva sends out
a distress signal, and he is there to answer her call.

Toronto mayor David Miller relates some
of the most inspirational and powerful stories of ordinary citizens
to show how Toronto is a place where different cultures can live, work, and dream together as one community.

As a writer, broadcaster, and social activist, June Callwood made other people her business, trying to better the lives of those in difficult situations. In this collection, her colleagues and loved
ones pay tribute to the grace, charm, and unfailing generosity of one of Canada’s most beloved figures.

On honeymoon in Marrakech, Nazneen Sheikh and her
psychiatrist husband Cesar developed a spiritual connection to
the city. After his unexpected breakdown caused their marriage
to fall apart, she returned to Marrakech to write. Much remained seductive, especially Khadim, the tourist guide from her honeymoon. Little did she know that he, like Cesar, had a
hidden side of his own.

Jan Zwicky is one of Canada’s most innovative intellectual
figures. Yet despite academic and critical praise culminating
in nominations for two separate categories of the Governor General’s Literary Award in the same year, her work remains mostly unknown. This collection of twenty-five meditations from various contributors, comprising the first formal consideration of Zwicky’s philosophy, seeks to bring Zwicky back to the forefront.

A longtime advocate of the arts in Montreal, Brault has taken action to re-establish that city as one of the most culturally accomplished communities in Canada. No Culture, No Future
is part of his campaign to convince the people and governments
of cities across Canada that investment in the arts benefits all citizens.

Having been a contributing reviewer for The Globe and Mail for more than twenty years, T.F. Rigelhof knows good literature. This conversational survey of the novels published since 1984 presents his readings of well-known Canadian writers while bringing the work of newer and lesser-known voices to more deserving attention.

A must-read for students of creative writing. This collection
reflects on the history and animate nature of the objects we use
in the act of writing, and addresses the powerful forces at work beneath the language of craft. Warland shows that what ultimately determines whether a piece of writing succeeds or flounders is a writer’s ability to be humbled, overcome, or guided by these forces.

Therapist Jan Hatanaka uses seven stories from her casebook, as well as her own heartwrenching experience with recovery, to discuss the complex relationship between death, grief, and reconciliation, taking the reader through the Grief Reconciliation Process and explaining the steps taken by people who manage to find life in the face of grief.

In this sequel to 2007’s The Empress Letters, Precious
discovers she is pregnant, stirring up bittersweet memories of her time in Hong Kong with her Chinese father and stepmother.

Tracing the formative years of a teenaged girl in 1950s Montréal,Such a Good Education is a scathing critique of traditional values, exposing the ignorance and poverty that troubled many French-Canadian families during the mid-
twentieth century.