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It's summer 1950, and for 11-year-old Sophie, Camp Latona promises bliss -- until she has to buddy up with a strange, unfriendly Jewish refugee girl named Ginette.

You will find history of psychism in Canada, frequently asked questions, how to evaluate a psychic, and how to develop your own psychic gift.

Bliss heads to the Cote d'Azur on an undercover mission so secret even he doesn't know why he's there. While there, he unravels two of history's greatest mysteries.

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Rescued from the dangers he faces in a Latin American military dictatorship, writer Carlos Romero Estevez is given a new life in Vancouver. His rescuers, a benevolent group devoted to aiding oppressed writers, believe they've found a poster-boy. Carlos things he's found a new life, new freedom, and new, powerful friends. But soon everyone's illusions are dispelled, and Carlos finds life in exile to be a new kind of prison.Shortlisted for the G...

Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French-Canadian girl about to move to British Columbia with her family in 1949.

This is old-fashioned travel writing, with vivid prose and bizarre characters. But it also freezes some important world events for close inspection.

Ust n Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country in this unique blend of memoir and travel literature.

Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion of men fathers, brothers, lovers in search of memories long faded in the wash of fast-running streams and firelight.

Bowering delivers poems that blend of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.

John Bacher uncovers frightening facts about the world's oil industry and explores the potential for global conflict.

A sequel to The Hunger, this is a stirring and engaging account of an Armenian girl and a Turkish boy during the Armenian Genocide.

In this fourth installment the popular mystery series, Canadian detective Mike Phillips asks Inspector David Bliss to help solve a baffling case of stolen identities.

When radio made its debut in the early twentieth century, it brought people together as no other communication medium had ever done.

A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canada's cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.

Why are golf assistants called caddies? Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right? Why is football played on a "gridiron, " and a leg injury called a "Charlie horse"? The answers to these questions and the origins of hundreds

Lilith Boot uses visions to help Toronto police find missing children, while her daughter, Lemon, struggles to distinguish herself from her quirky mother.

McLean's memoir chronicles her struggle for independence in the repressive 1950s.

Flight remains one of humanity's most spectacular triumphs, and Canada especially has much to be proud of.

After her marriage breaks down, shy schoolteacher Blithe Morrison takes refuge for the summer with her parents in the affluent Toronto neighbourhood of Rose Park. Blithe's return home evokes memories of her lifelong sibling war with Noel, her golden-boy older brother, now a diplomat posted in England. But when Blithe befriends a lonely 11-year-old girl and takes on a local history project, she uncovers truths about a long-rumoured buried treas...