When the Grand Master recalls Albia's best agent from active service and appoints her Vice Principal of the Academy, she's convinced he has an ulterior motive. He does, but it's not what she thinks. Someone's trying to kill her, and the Grand Master wants her safe at home in Veridurum; she is his daughter, after all.Academy Principal Fergal O'Connor is a man with a mission. He'd rather not have it; he's already fully occupied with undergraduate spies, an unbalanced colleague, unobt...

Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress Shotoku of Japan who in 764 ordered the printing of one million Buddhist prayers; from the story of Hulagu, Ghengis Khan’s nasty brother who destroyed the library of Baghdad to Bowdler and th...

**Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fictionHonor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12****Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year2003 winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award Seal****Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fictionIncluded on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Hon...

National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best BookA fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was so clearly bound for a glorious future that some young friends even carefully preserved his letters. And everyone remembered their encounte...

Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was the very epitome of the "man of letters," a term he abhorred. Best known for his Deptfor...

Father Tom Christmas moves to the picturesque English hamlet of Thornford Regis to become its new vicar and to seek a peaceful haven. But inside the empty village hall, the huge Japanese o-daiko drum that’s featured in the May Fayre festivities has been viciously sliced open—and curled up inside is the bludgeoned body of Sybella Parry, the daughter of the choir director. Realizing this village is not the refuge he’d hoped for, Father Tom comes to a disturbing conclusion: Sybella’s...

Before internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden penned his bestselling novel Three Day Road and his Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, Through Black Spruce, he published a powerful collection of thirteen stories about modern Aboriginal life that made readers and reviewers take notice. These stories of love, loss, rage and resilience match virtuosic style with clever wit to turn stereotypes on their head and reveal the traditions and grace of our First Peoples. R...

What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews

In this extraordinary account of life as midwife in 1950s London, Jennifer Worth recounts her experiences - and those of the women she helped - in all their stark, colourful and at times shocking reality.Life in London's East End in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bomb sites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were...

Explore the true resilience of the heart and our raw determination to find goodness in a world fraught with adversityOne Woman’s Courage in the face of personal tragedy is at the heart of Heather A. Clark’s debut novel. Thirty–three–year–old Nicky Fowler thought her whole life was mapped out — a rewarding career as a third grade teacher, an adoring husband, and the perfect house in the suburbs — but complicated fertility issues lead to a devastating tragedy. Nicky’s marria...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon**, Jeannette Walls’s gripping coming-of-age novel about two sisters “transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away” (O, T...

WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD FOR BEST FICTION & BEST AUTHORSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGER WRITERS' TRUST FICTION AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Historical fiction at its best' Sunday TelegraphA mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller...