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Jade Is a Twisted Green follows the coming of age of Jade Brown, a young Black queer woman on the cusp of turning twenty-five. Her becoming story explores Jamaican Canadian identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss.

In the third book of the Walking Shadows series, an Automatic is charged with murder and Roche and Allen must prove his innocence, because failure would mean the eradication of all Automatics in America in this alternate version of 1933.

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.

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.

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Rattenbury, designer of the iconic Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his wife, Alma Rattenbury, and George Stoner, their chauffeur (also her lover and half her age), became one of the twentieth century's most sensational cases.

Filling a significant gap in resources and direction available to separating families, this book humanizes the otherwise clinical, impersonal process of negotiating co-parenting terms by reminding parents that while their relationship may have ended, they still have one mutual goal in mind: the health and safety of their kids.

Against the Seas tells how we have coped with rising sea levels since the end of the Ice Age - by moving, building defences, or magic. Flood stories in different cultures show just how traumatic those experiences were. But what happened in the past may help us in the future and gives hope that we will survive.

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.

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.

Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him into a shadowy world of obscure composers, megalomaniac artists, and real estate barons, where the lines between art, finance, and fraud blur and the stakes are existential.

Angeline Jackson stands up to the culture of homophobia in Jamaica by sharing the story of her sexual and spiritual awakening as well as her traumatic experience of "corrective rape.

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.

Humorous and heartfelt Christmas stories that illuminate the everyday magic of the season. Being with family. Basking in tradition. Pooping your snowsuit. Each tale is meant to be read out-loud, maybe with some rum and eggnog. But if you're out of eggnog, rum goes well with lots of things.

In Black Dad Matters, Casey Palmer relies on dozens of dads' experiences to show that diversity's more than skin deep. Despite a world often painting Black dads with a single brush, no two dads are alike, more than any one definition could ever do justice.

The inspiring story of a proud Black woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an ambitious immigrant who is determined to see possibilities where others see challenges. Always striving to achieve success even where failure might seem difficult to overcome, Mary Anne is guided by her belief in herself and her respect for humanity.

A collection of essays about father figures in popular culture, Dad Bod unpack the ideas that inform our collective image of fatherhood as it is found in movies, television shows, and video games. Follow a newly minted parent as he journeys to the heart of dadness to redefine what it means to be a father.

Babble On is a memoir about someone who is deeply conflicted and mired at the intersection of drug dependence, the criminal underworld, and mental health issues.

Explore parks and trails where colourful birds and turtles live. Behold wetlands where moose browse. Delight in vibrant butterflies and bumblebees that pollinate wildflowers. Discover all this and so much more as you travel across the province through the pages of Ontario Wildlife Photography.

The historic constitutional monarchy in Canada has shown considerable resilience and durability during the unprecedented seventy-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022, A Resilient Crown examines a broad range of topics related to the role of the Crown in Canada.

Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed forever after marrying rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. She participated in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1946-1948. Jackie Ronne dedicated her life to Antarctica and helped shape the narrative of twentieth-century Antarctic exploration.