Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the w...

**By the bestselling author of Midnight at the Dragon CaféA Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection**Focusing on the Chinese community in Canada, these vivid and poignant stories tell us something about the place of home and memory in our lives. Whether her characters find themselves caught between the life they left behind and the lonely realities of their new life in Canada, or torn between the traditions of the past and a desire to shape their own fu...

“Rhymes to Count On” is a great story to teach young learners counting from 1-20. Filled with 14 nursery rhymes and classic songs, including: “One, Two Buckle My Shoe,” “This Old Man,” “Ten Little Bluebirds,” “Ten In The Bed,” and much more! Engaging sound-effects and fun music will entertain pre-readers as these rhyming nursery rhymes reinforce early literacy skills needed for school success. With this perfect combination of education and entertainment, kids and parents alike will enjoy l...

“Rhymes to Count On” is a great story to teach young learners counting from 1-20. Filled with 14 nursery rhymes and classic songs, including: “One, Two Buckle My Shoe,” “This Old Man,” “Ten Little Bluebirds,” “Ten In The Bed,” and much more! Engaging sound-effects and fun music will entertain pre-readers as these rhyming nursery rhymes reinforce early literacy skills needed for school success. With this perfect combination of education and entertainment, kids and parents alike will enjoy l...

This Old House is a metaphor of my conversion in Jesus Christ. This was the condition of my heart and the response to the amazing love and light that I received through his word and by His grace.This book brings to light the transformation that takes place in the new relationship beginning with my encounter with God. The light of His power through His word brings the reader into the birth truths that ground us in the position of Grace in Christ. (Continue on last page of book)

In the tradition of The Concubine's Children and Paper Shadows, a probing memoir from the author of the acclaimed novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe.An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives.Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of ...

“Rhymes to Count On” is a great story to teach young learners counting from 1-20. Filled with 14 nursery rhymes and classic songs, including: “One, Two Buckle My Shoe,” “This Old Man,” “Ten Little Bluebirds,” “Ten In The Bed,” and much more! Engaging sound-effects and fun music will entertain pre-readers as these rhyming nursery rhymes reinforce early literacy skills needed for school success. With this perfect combination of education and entertainment, kids and parents alike will enjoy l...

“Rhymes to Count On” is a great story to teach young learners counting from 1-20. Filled with 14 nursery rhymes and classic songs, including: “One, Two Buckle My Shoe,” “This Old Man,” “Ten Little Bluebirds,” “Ten In The Bed,” and much more! Engaging sound-effects and fun music will entertain pre-readers as these rhyming nursery rhymes reinforce early literacy skills needed for school success. With this perfect combination of education and entertainment, kids and parents alike will enjoy l...

Digger, an 85-kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete’s dream – winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Both athletes are nearing the end of their careers, and are forced to confront the question: what happens to athletes when their bodies are too worn to compete? The blossoming relationship between Digger and Sadie is tested in the intense months leading up to the Olympics, which, as both of them are painfully aware, will be the r...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett**WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times...

Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays. When Edal Jones can't cope with the casual cruelty she encounters in her job as a federal wildlife officer, she finds herself drawn to a beacon of solace nestled in the valley under ...

Winner of the Governor General's Literary AwardJuliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town -- the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people -- and it’s easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century -- old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping storie...