An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apartThe prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He
Like Reading Lolita in Tehran and Honeymoon in Purdah before it – an evocative exploration of the vibrant heart of Iran, and the paradoxes that reside in its history and contemporary life.Long fascina
Encompassing virtually every religious tradition, a compilation of twentieth-century spiritual essays includes the works of Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, Carl Jung, Ge
Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one’s longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sist
After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building a human-
Alexis’s long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood.Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andre Alexis’s sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwin
Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth’s singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging – and mostly oblivious – optimism. At once outmoded and
A trenchant analysis of the vast array of "bullshit" that is undermining twenty-first century life skewers everything from corporate communications and wartime propaganda to scripted political events,
Larry Mullet is your typical fourth grader. He's not the biggest kid or the smartest kid or the best looking kid. He rides his bike, plays baseball, takes the school bus, avoids cafeteria food, and--o
Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaught
Darker than her previous novels, Susin peoples this novel about the ultimate cost of bullying with a cast of fabulous characters, dark humour, and a lovable, difficult protagonist struggling to come t
Old Bear has been up in the attic for a very long time, but he hasn't been forgotten. Bramwell Brown and his friends Little Bear, Duck, and Rabbit attempt to rescue Old Bear from the attic and bring h
The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of charact
Shakespeare-loving hairless guinea pig Millhouse is abandoned after the death of his beloved actor owner and winds up in a dusty pet shop where he is reviled and targeted by fellow homeless rodents wh
What better way to introduce your child to the entertaining, action-packed world of hockey than through a new series of books aimed at the youngest of hockey fans? Published through the combined effor
An exciting new NASCAR series for the youngest of racing fans. Introduce your children to the early basic concepts through the exciting world of NASCAR in this officially licensed NASCAR series.
Learn All About Hockey introduces young hockey enthusiasts to the game and does so through interactive pages that provide young players with the opportunity to colour in pages, follow mazes, complete
The founders of influential think tank Samara ask former members of Parliament what has gone wrong with our democracy, and how it can be fixed.Talk to any Canadian about politics and you'll hear littl
The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri. 2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strik
Cynthia Holz's first novel with Knopf Canada is a spellbinding story that offers an intimate look at family, friendship and altruism, and unrolls a cast of characters you can't help but root for even
