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A modern guide to understanding your menstrual cycle, breaking through shame and stigma, and reclaiming your fifth vital sign through holistic nutrition, lifestyle, and self-advocacy.

Ten Canadians make one powerful argument: we cannot shy away from failure if we hope to succeed. Canadian Failures gathers experts at the top of their field, all of whom have grappled with failure, including astronaut Robert Thirsk; Olympic gold medalist, wrestler Erica Wiebe; and Tom Jenkins of OpenText Corporation.

Caught between cultures, immigrant families from a Bengali neighbourhood in Toronto strive to navigate their home, relationships, and happiness.Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, the eight stories in Home of the Floating Lily follow the lives of everyday people as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict. A young woman moves to Toronto after getting married but soon discovers her husband is not who she believes him to be. A mother reconciles her heartbreak when her sons defy her expectations and choose their own paths in life. A lonely international student returns to Bangladesh and forms an unexpected bond with her domestic helper. A working-class woman, caught between her love for Bangladesh and her determination to raise her daughter in Canada, makes a life-altering decision after a dark secret from the past is revealed.In each of the stories, characters embark on difficult journeys in search of love, dignity, and a sense of belonging.

Human behaviour is lopsided. When cradling a newborn child, most of us cradle the infant to the left. When kissing a lover, we tend to tilt our head to the right. Our brains influence our actions and habits more than we know.

Cautious and polite Brenda Barnhart is fascinated by the new-kid-on-the-block's wildness and unruly family. Brenda feels she should show Maureen the proper way to behave, but the only thing she gets from the friendship is the feeling of walking on a tightrope.

Borderline Shine is the unflinching story of the life of a survivor who decides to pursue a career as a mental health therapist in order to help others.

Sumaiya Matin was never sure if the story of the Shaytan Bride was truth or myth. At first the bride seemed to be the monster of fairy tales. However, in the weeks leading up to Sumaiya's own unwanted wedding, she discovers the story -- and the bride herself -- are closer than they seem.

Industry, academic, and government experts present a roadmap for radical change in how we govern. Learnings and recommendations point the way forward for governments in an age where standing still and doing nothing equates failure.

Caught between a younger man that doesn't promise anything, her older former lover, and her senile mother, Josephine travels to a haunted quarantine island, where she meets an enigmatic, beatiful man with a haunting story.

Reluctant celebrity Tony Vicar discovers that opening his dream pub in the small town of Tyee Lagoon isn't without surprising challenges. With the unwelcome appearance of gossip journalist Richard X Dick and uncomfortable questions on the home front, Tony fears he might be cracking under the pressure.

Two survivors of a family massacre share the horrific true story of how a former church minister slaughtered every woman in his family save one over the course of one blood-spattered evening in 1963.

Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women's activities were -- from owning taverns, schools, and market gardens to working as doctors, musicians, and butchers.

Eve lost her young son in a tragic accident, and now she struggles to protect the one child she has left: a teenage daughter who may be pure evil.

Energy commentator Dennis McConaghy takes an in-depth look at the public policies surrounding decarbonization in Canada and the costs and sacrifices it will take to get to net zero. He then lays out a more balanced approach that maximizes global human welfare while still using hydrocarbons optimally.

Grace DeRoche suffers from dissociative identity disorder after escaping childhood abuse at the hands of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church. When other escapees die under suspicious circumstances, one of her alter personalities is the prime suspect. As evidence mounts against her, Grace must determine if she's a murderer or the next victim.

A comprehensive new look at the life and times of Canada's fifth - and least understood - prime minister, including the January 1896 coup where seven of Bowell's cabinet ministers forced his resignation so Sir Charles Tupper could lead the Conservatives into the ill-fated June 1896 election.

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she's suddenly alone. Michelle documents from falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything messy in between, finally finding life and hope in the aftermath.

A fascinating, personal story of the adventures, romance, and recovery of renowned classical guitarist Liona Boyd. After her divorce and departure from Beverly Hills, Boyd reinvented her career, became a singer-songwriter and the pen pal of Prince Philip, and turned a devastating diagnosis into a new chapter in her life and career.

Paula Mallea sets out suggestions for a complete overhaul of Canada's incarceration model of criminal justice. In its current state, incarceration promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety, is highly discriminatory, and is ruinously expensive.

On film, on the page, in fashion, and in a host of other areas, female desire is routinely shown as subordinate to male desire - when it isn't suppressed altogether. In a series of rebellious, humorous, and well-documented essays, Lili Boisvert sketches the contours of what could be true sexual liberation for women.

Raising children can take a wrecking ball to your ambitions, your finances, your relationships, even your health. Harried mother of three Shantelle Bisson guides readers through it all - breastfeeding, staying romantically connected, screen time, discipline, even helicopter parenting - and helps them to keep their cool throughout!

The Complex Arms is the story of thirteen tenants whose lives are dramatically changed by the force of nature in one afternoon in Edmonton in 1987.

Before he was hanged, Captain Kidd claimed to have hidden a vast fortune in the Indies. Harris concludes there is much to justify his claim.

With insightful interviews, thorough reporting, and colourful storytelling, The Voyageurs takes readers inside the renaissance of the Canadian men's national soccer team, detailing how a generation of growth of soccer in the country led Canada's team from darkness to the world stage.