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A collection of music and lyrics that form the last unpublished work of one of Canada's most remarkable poets.

1901: Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful to live where no one knows her secrets. Soon, Ada realizes that something beastly lives in the heart of Lowry Bridge, and it both beckons and repels her. As her own grip on reality loosens, Ada wonders if the real horror is her.

Character argues that while competencies reflect what a leader can do, character determines what a leader will do. Character combines the insights from the authors' scholarship and interviews with leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen.

A heartbreaking portrait of Bria, a teenage girl slipping into addiction despite loathing what the same drugs have done to her family. In the middle of a heat wave, Bria must deal with a bear that wanders into town, unsolicited dick pics texted from a mystery number, and a creeping dependence on what Bria should hate most of all.

Featuring interviews with everyone from Savage's neighborhood friends to his high school teammates to minor league teammates, tons of wrestlers and even extras on Spider-Man, Jon Finkel writes the definitive biography of "Macho Man" Randy Savage.

Arthur Beauchamp writes a memoir that he hopes will set the record straight about a spectacular murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966.

This is queer psychological horror, tackling important issues of mental health, in particular eating disorders, in the way that only horror fiction can: by delving deep, cracking them open, and exposing their gruesome entrails.

Throughout his career, Police Superintendent Merith ran headfirst into the institutionalized racism of the York Regional Police. Here, he lays out his career, lived experiences, and passion for systemic change and social justice reform and shows the reader what it's like to be a Black man charged with a duty to serve.

Veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman and his sniffer dog, Pippin, are back to solve a mystery involving the poisoning of a team of sled huskies, a floatplane crash, and a murder. A locked room mystery that will keep you guessing right up until the end!

Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel is creative nonfiction that combines the social history of trains and personal travel memoir with a broader meditation on the meaning, importance, and symbolism of traveling.

Chronicles a year in the life of a septuagenarian sheep farmer as she observes and reflects on the cycles of life on land she's tended for over half a century. Barbara shepherds her flock and spins their wool into fine yarn, plants, harvests, and prepares beautiful food, and writes about the local community and how it's changed.

From bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz, a new collection of bite-size pop science essays that allow curious readers to understand the science behind everything from plastic-wrapped cucumbers to head transplants.

From flash fiction to character studies to autofiction, these stories turn over the rocks of everyday experience to reveal the psychological truths underneath. While the stories range geographically across the breadth of Canada, from Nova Scotia to the Yukon, they are universal in theme, exploring loss, infidelity, faith, mortality, and love.

In a stimulating book originally published in French, Lebold presents an in-depth discussion of Cohen's life and work. Fans old and new will love this refreshing take on the singer's engagement with the broken heart and the laws of gravity.

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Combining skateboarding history and memoir, Right, Down + Circle explores how a video game starring the most famous pro skater in the world brought skate culture -- and its ever-shifting markers of music, subversion, and coolness -- to the masses and ultimately transformed the culture it borrowed from in the process.

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