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Rails Across Ontario
Explore Ontario’s rich railway heritage — from stations and hotels to train rides, bridges, water towers, and roundhouses.
Rails Across Ontario will take the reader back to a time when the railway ruled the economy and the landscape.
Read about historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines …
149 Paintings You Really Need to See in Europe
Visit some of Europe’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of a knowledgeable tour guide.
"Who can resist an art critic with attitude?"
– Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ian Binnie
"It was wonderful! Julian shared his enormous knowledge of the world’s best art with a panache that is irresistible."
– Justice Stephen Goudge, …
Festival Man
Maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette makes a final destructive bid for glory at the Calgary Folk Festival.
Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted panegyric to the power of strange music to change people from the inside out.
At turns funny and strangely sobering, …
Paikin and the Premiers
A unique perspective on Ontario’s most powerful political leaders.
Ontario’s fortunes and fates increasingly rest in the hands of the province’s premier. Critics say the role of premier concentrates too much power in one person, but at least that points to the one person Ontarians, and others beyond the province’s borders, ought to know al …
Hostile Seas
Set during a period of dramatically escalating piracy, Hostile Seas is a personal account of a mission on board a naval warship in the waters off Somalia.
In late 2008, piracy around the Horn of Africa escalated dramatically, threatening the passage of international merchant ships through a critical waterway. Not only were ships carrying goods to N …
Spooky Sudbury
The magnetic aura surrounding Sudbury, for both the living as well as the once-alive, is the backdrop for tales of mystery, wonder, and outright horror.
"I tried to leave" is a common theme for those from the Sudbury region. People often vow to move away, but something about the Nickel City keeps luring them back. Whether it’s the taste of fresh …
Corporate Asset
In his seventh appearance, undercover agent Jack Taggart is forced to play a risky game, making a deal with one devil to bring down another.
Corporate Asset takes undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies are being bilked out of millions of dollars. Multiple murders take place right under …
Projection
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
2013 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
Projection is the story of this mother-daughter meeting in Brazil, of how two strangers, connected by little more than blood, spent ten days together trying to build a relationship.
In 1977, Priscila Uppal’s fathe …
On the Rim
How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he’s leaving — and you didn’t see it coming?
Ellen is blindsided by her husband’s request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in his name.
Depressed and defeated, her life spirals out of control, until she impulsively decides to buy a …
The Great Escape
A unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it.
On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known …
Jack Taggart Mysteries 7-Book Bundle
Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first seven books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together, including the latest mystery, Corporate Asset.
"Ripped from the headlines … Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work." - Globe and Mail
"One of the best hard-nosed series in Canada." - Hamilton Spectator
"Swift action, …
Canada's Other Game
The story of Canada’s other game from its invention by a Canadian to its current struggle for popularity.
Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland …
Canadian Folk
An amusing collection of lives and stories from the eccentric side of Canada’s history.
A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.
They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate wa …
The Kindred of the Wild
Charles G.D. Roberts’s fame rests on a series of very popular animal stories.
Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry, romance fiction, and nature writing – making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface ele …
Metal on Ice
A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield.
Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium.
The road to …
The Art of Complaining
Defective cars, contaminated food, insurance company abuses, botched vacations, or government errors and indifference. The Art of Complaining evens the playing field.
Most people hate to complain and so they will put up with defective cars, contaminated food, insurance company abuses, botched vacations, and government errors and indifference. The A …
Jalna: Books 9-12
History flows swiftly on, and even the formidable family home of Jalna is swept up in its currents in this collection of books 9-12 of the Jalna series. Fortunes rise and crumble as older generations give way to the young, and the reins of tradition strain against the swift rush of progress reshaping the world. Follow the Whiteoak descendants thro …
Guerrilla Nation
A celebrated journalist finds himself reporting on the savage war in Vietnam while in combat with his own network.
In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an entire population had been trained for …
Barrett Fuller's Secret
Barrett Fuller’s privileged life is about to change radically … or else.
Barrett Fuller is a world-famous and very wealthy children’s author who writes under a pseudonym because he’s a self-absorbed womanizer and drug-user. His life changes when he receives an extortion letter, challenging him to live up to the morals he currently espouses …
The Crown and Canadian Federalism
More than ever Canada’s constitutional monarchy should be treasured as a distinct asset for the nation.
Following Queen Elizabeth II’s historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada and the roles of the queen, governor general, and lieutenant governor. Author D. Michael Jackson traces the s …
Kid Soldier
2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award — Shortlisted
A boy is thrown into the middle of history’s biggest war.
Fatherless and penniless, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller wants a bike, so Mr. Black, the baker hires him to help with deliveries. Mr. Black entertains him with army stories and teaches him Morse code. He invites Richard to attend the opening ce …
Scientific Parenting
The latest research on child development may hold the key to the parenting of the future.
Combining the expertise of its author – a celebrated expert in parent-infant mental health and mother of two – with the latest findings in gene-by-environment interactions, epigenetics, behavioural science, and attachment theory, Scientific Parenting desc …
Jalna: Books 5-8
Perhaps the most classic novels of Mazo de la Roche’s monumental family saga are these four, which were the first books written in the series, though they fall in the middle of her books’ multi-generation narrative. These, including the original novel Jalna, were the books that first established the world of Jalna in the minds of readers and de …
What Every Parent Should Know About School
An inside look at what our schools are like today and practical advice for navigating the educational system.
School is our children’s second home. They will spend more time there than anywhere else in their formative years. We all need to talk honestly about the nature of this environment, how it works, and how it doesn’t work. Our kids are de …
Contested Land, Contested Memory
2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize — Nonfiction Runner Up
The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel’s future possibilities for peace.
1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the mem …
Fiona Silk Mysteries 2-Book Bundle
This digital bundle of the Fiona Silk Mystery series presents Mary Jane Maffini’s celebrated sleuth stories Lament for a Lounge Lizard and Too Hot To Handle in a unique two-book edition.
Charlie Salter Mysteries 4-Book Bundle
This quadruple edition of the entire Charlie Salter Mystery series presents the complete stories of Eric Wright’s wry and much-loved detective Salter. This digital bundle includes The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, Death in the Old Country, and the fourth and final mystery, The Last Hand.
John Buchan
Soldier, spy, politician, bestselling thriller writer, and governor general of Canada — John Buchan was a man of many seasons and talents.
An accomplished Scottish journalist, soldier, head of intelligence, and Member of Parliament, John Buchan (1875-1940) is best known for penning thrillers such as The Thirty-Nine Steps. However, as Canada’s 1 …
Inspector Bliss Mysteries 8-Book Bundle
This ebook bundle contains the first eight novels of the Inspector Bliss Mystery series by James Hawkins.
Jalna: Books 1-4
Chronicling the early years of the formidable manor Jalna and the Whiteoak family who inhabit it, this bundle gathers together the first four novels in Mazo de la Roche’s treasured Canadian saga.
Includes
The Building of Jalna
Morning at Jalna
Mary Wakefield
Young Renny
Felix Taylor Adventures 2-Book Bundle
For the first time, the Felix Taylor Adventures are available as together in this two-book bundle.
Short-listed for the Snow Willow Young Reader’s Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award.
"An entertaining and thoughtful read that will please fans of sci-fi and historical fiction alike."
- Caitlin Campbell, CM magazine
Fortuna …
Parenting Your Parents
When our parents reach a certain age and have difficulty coping, we find ourselves wondering how to provide them with the kind of love, care, support, and attention they need - just as they have done for us all our lives. Parenting Your Parents shows, through case studies, that you are not alone and offers advice to help you along this difficult bu …