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Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey, revealing Jelfs' well-hidden tracks and the reasons for his double life.
Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life.
Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.
In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near Victoria, British Columbia. For years she wouldn't talk about her past. It wasn't until daughter Patricia explored archival records and shared them with her mother that a home-child saga emerged.
From his humble beginnings in Musgrave Harbour, Harry Steele became one of Newfoundland's most successful entrepreneurs.
Jennifer Pan seemed to be fulfilling her immigrant parents' dreams: a straight-A student working towards a pharmacology degree. In reality, her golden life was a carefully cultivated facade, covering up an explosive secret life. When her deceptions started to unravel, Jennifer's desperate escape plan left a city in shock.
The trial and conviction of Louis Riel has been the subject of historical comment and criticism for over one hundred years. A Rush to Judgment challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial.
Eleven-year-old Warren is flip-flopping between trying to fit in at a new school and being the protective brother of Bennie, who has Down syndrome.
Dr. Shawn Jennings shares his experiences in the struggle for recovery and acceptance of his new life after suffering a brain stem stroke.
After decades away, Tulla Murphy returns to her hometown and reconnects with childhood friends. Old hatreds resurface, mysterious deaths occur, and foreboding grips the town. Can the friends protect each other?
Ready to Come About is the story of an improbable year sailing the North Atlantic, through which author Sue Williams grew to believe that there is no gift more precious than the liberty to chart one's own course and that risk is a good thing ... sometimes, at least.
A whodunnit on horseback, Swimming with Horses blends equestrian sports, teenage nostalgia, political tensions in new and old South Africa, and a modern take on Canadian identity, all rolled into a taut literary thriller.
Clementine is ready to conquer the high-flying world of New York City fashion and become a blogging sensation, but will online abuse ruin her dreams?
Clementine Liu is heading to Shanghai on an exchange. But with cute boys, drama at home, and a cutthroat local blogging scene, can she stay true to herself?
Missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out Toronto slaughterhouse. His search for a killer takes him deep into Toronto's underworld.
The Millennial Mosaic provides an unmatched examination of Canada's youngest adults, unveiling the news that they are an upgrade on older Canadians, and what it means for the future of Canada.
The last thing Zach expected was to find the girl of his dreams at Gamer's Haven. When a brutal storm hits Saskatchewan, he learns that strategy is the key to winning over the girl and saving the day.
After surviving childhood abuse, abandonment, and attempted suicides, Joanne Vannicola came out, won an Emmy, and discovered herself. She also learned how to love and let go.
Father Sweet is a timely and moving story about Canada's complicity in religious child abuse, unveiling not just personal family secrets, but a large-scale conspiracy.
Pica and Scruff must navigate the challenges of friendship in order to survive in the city.
Aspiring DJ Dizzy Doucette, must learn how to navigate life when her mother's identity as a famous singer is revealed to the world.
Being Prime Minister sheds light on the lives of prime ministers as ordinary people, examining them through a variety of experiences most Canadians share.
Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada's leading writers.
Cullen and Cobb are back to investigate the 1965 disappearance of a folk singer. Kidnapped from the alley behind a folk club, her bandmates shot and killed, Ellie Foster's whereabouts have remained a mystery for fifty years. Hired by Ellie's granddaughter, Cullen and Cobb travel into the past to unearth long-buried secrets.
World leaders addressing the House of Commons show us Canada through foreign eyes, in light of Canada's maturing role in world affairs. Foreign Voices in the House gathers, for the first time, sixty landmark speeches by world leaders and luminaries, with photos and background written by parliamentary veteran J. Patrick Boyer.
John Laschinger, Canada's only full-time campaign manager, opens up about the fifty campaigns he has worked on around the world. From smoke-filled backrooms to social media, Laschinger gives unflinching detail on everything in a campaign manager's arsenal.
Laurie Gough's son was a regular, bright, unicycle-riding kid, until the day his grandpa died, when a tidal wave of uncontrollable thoughts consumed him. He became an echo of himself, a near-stranger dominated by bizarre rituals dreamed up to bring his grandpa back to life. Gough's family took on the battle against OCD and won.
Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island off the coast of Seattle. But once the band and their eclectic entourage arrive, a dark secret emerges from their past to haunt them as, one by one, the guests begin to fall prey to a mysterious fate.
A jaded ex-cop struggles to protect her oldest friend from an unknown danger while looking into the mysterious disappearance at a local charity event of an up-and-coming pro hockey player.
A funny and touching memoir of how a TV reporter dragged his unwilling wife and daughter to London and how they learned to live in and love the world's greatest city - despite a falling ceiling, ruinous costs, and quirky Brits.
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