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Fourteen-year-old Joey Philion's incredible survival from a fire that burned 95 percent of his body made him the second most famous Canadian of 1988. Yet Joey's survival took an enormous toll on him, his mother Linda, stepfather Mike, and younger brother Danny in the years that followed.

The story of Kanao Inouye, a Japanese Canadian born in Kamloops, B.C. in 1916, the "Kamloops Kid" moved to Japan where he became a translator assigned to a prisoner of war camp in Hong Kong where he took his revenge on scores of soldiers.

Ernest Hemingway is struggling. Will impending fatherhood and leaving Paris mean the loss of his fledgling writing career? But as a Toronto Daily Star reporter, he's sent to cover a daring prison break and becomes fascinated with the escaped convicts, asking: What is freedom? Duty? What stops a man from pursuing his dreams?

With her essay collection Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, Blizzard explores the spaces where art, music, spirit, ecology, race and culture collide. With prose and the tools of poetry, she negotiates the complexities of culture, geography and language in an international diasporic quest.

The Mosaic Myth shows how Canada's 1971 adoption of the cultural mosaic model was doomed by false assumptions. Author Domenic Diamante explains Canada's immigration history and analyzes key questions that informed the country's multiculturalism policy.

A memoir of creative non-fiction comprised of twenty-six letters written in poetic prose, Alphabet Soup dives deeply into the scalding heat of memory through a thematic approach that recalls and reframes love, death, joy, sorrow, victory, and devastation, then serves it piping hot in tantalizing doses to sate voracious literary appetites.

Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada's political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately lost control, leading to his downfall.

Shorter work hours are likely to lead to a happier, healthier, and more productive work force, as well as to reduced stress on the health-care system, since overwork is a key cause of mental and physical illness. Work Less proposes various ways for organizations to achieve shorter hours and offers policy options for use by governments.

An anthology of erotica by Canadian writers. The writers' names are listed on the cover, but the pieces are not individually attributed. The pieces vary from graphic to surreal. A snapshot of Canadian literary sex in 2024.

Gonzalo and Erica have one child and another on the way when they discover Erica has terminal cancer. Gonzalo's memoir explores reconciling hope with tragedy and doing your best when you're a widowed single father of two sons under two.

Ground-breaking research led to the creation of the Lucky Iron Fish, a unique device that tackles iron deficiency globally, propelled by the entrepreneurial spirit of Dr. Gavin Armstrong.

Ordinary citizens fought City Hall to have a suicide barrier erected around North America's second most "popular" suicide magnet, the Bloor Viaduct over Toronto's Don Valley.

The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. As we enter this new era of great-power competition, Canadians tend to assume that the United States will continue to provide global leadership for the West. Canada Alone sketches the more dystopian future that is likely to result if the illiberal, anti-democratic, and authoritarian Make America Great Again movement regains power. Under the twin stresses of a reinvigorated America First policy and the purposeful abandonment of American global leadership, the West will likely fracture, leaving Canadians all alone with an increasingly dysfunctional United States. Canada Alone outlines what Canadians will need to navigate this deeply unfamiliar post-American world.

Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.

Olympic gymnast Mary Sanders shares her journey of grief, financial struggles, battles with coaches, rivalries, and injuries, but also her reinventions, as a Cirque du Soleil acrobat, as an entertainment executive, and as a mother.

"In the year following her mother's death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner. It's the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mother's death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes-lover, the beautiful boy Alex. Both are from Newfoundland but move easily in this world of crowded patios and DIY movie shoots. When Sophie meets the glamorous poet Maggie, who is the downtown product of a hundred cool queer bars, she falls into a bewildered infatuation, but secrets emerge that threaten to crumble the foundation of her relationship with Alex and Maggie both. Moving from bohemian Toronto to an arts colony in a castle in France and then back to Newfoundland, Mudflowers examines the impact of family that one is born into and family one chooses, exploring new and unconventional intimacies."--

For every day of the year, there is Toronto Maple Leafs history to be celebrated or mourned. And with every turn of the page, Mike Commito brings you moments that are sure to remind you why you can't stop loving the Leafs. From the green Toronto St. Patricks to Auston Matthews scoring 60 goals in 2022, Leafs 365 has it all.

Shrinking newsrooms and an explosion in the ranks of spin doctors mean journalists are routinely being duped. Reporters often act as megaphones when they repeat a misleading press release or deceptive poll. Veteran investigative journalist Cecil Rosner exposes the problem and shows how we can do something about it.

All that's left of the Bliss clan is seventeen-year-old Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie, now that Gran passed and Gramps lies dead in the cold cellar. After Children's Aid pays a visit to their secluded farm, the unlikely trio head north, a dead body wrapped in the trunk.

In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family - and Cat doesn't handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to.

A journalist travels to the South on a mysterious mission to report on recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. Defending himself against unknown enemies, he spirals into a hallucinatory and haunting landscape. A mystical novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the nature of truth and forces that control us.

A history of the city through the lives of its leaders. From its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,600 residents to a metropolis of three million, this is the first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors: the good, the bad, the colourful, the leaders, the rogues, the scoundrels, and the reformers who have made Toronto what it is today.

Black Enterprize chronicles the entrepreneurship of remarkable Black men and women. Icons such as Marcus Garvey, Madam C.J. Walker, Aliko Dangote, Robert F. Smith, and many more take centre stage to showcase the historic achievements of Black people from Britain, America, Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special case. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Life goes on, after a fashion, but there are consequences to surviving.

We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.

Ontario's cottage country is littered with vanished villages, from railway whistle-stops to logging hamlets. Join Andrew Hind in exploring almost two dozen villages across Parry Sound District, northeast Ontario, Muskoka, Algonquin Park, Haliburton, and the Kawarthas.