**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER | GLOBE & MAIL GLOBE 100: BEST BOOKS OF 2025 | CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NON-FICTION 2025 | NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025A moving culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family—and sustenance and survival—from a chef, award-winning Canadian journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.“I started crying on page one; a few pages later I burst into laughter. This beautifully written book takes readers on an emotiona...

Finding killers is Calgary Police Detective Janice Maidstone’sjob, for now, but her parents want her back on the short-grass prairie in southern Saskatchewan to take over the ranch. Janice must choose between the police service in a job she loves,or the life as a rancher to carry on the family legacy. The decision hangs over her head while she and her partner investigate their latest case involving a pregnancy, a playboy fiancé, a greedy business partner, and a jealous bride

A few Halloween Pranksters are causing a ruckus in a small midwestern town. The pumpkins are flying and the trick-or-treat candy is taken. Our very shy tomte, Finley, and his friends devise a plan to take back their town that is so perfect that the bullies run without really knowing what just happened.This is an epic chocolate caper that is thrilling and fun at the same time.

When the impish Mouse comes to spend the night, Bear is in for a rude--and very funny--awakening in this irresistible new story starring the unlikely pair. (Ages 5-7)Features an audio read-along! Bear must have absolute quiet when he goes to bed. He likes to set out his glass of water, adjust his nightcap, fluff his favorite pillow, and then drift peacefully to sleep. But the effervescent Mouse, small and gray and bright-eyed, finds it terribly hard to be as quiet ...

In truth and reconciliation settings, particular narratives are recounted by victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and legal experts, each employing distinct rhetorical strategies. Their testimonies, reported by the media and represented in various cultural forms, profoundly influence public understanding and collective memory in post-conflict societies.Authored by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars across the humanities and social sciences, policymakers and cultural p...

Contractor George Connelly can't seem to win.His wife walked out on him with no warning and suddenly, for a man who seemed to have it all, his whole life is in the dumpster. As he reels from crisis to crisis, he just can't seem to do the right things.His lawyer, the stunning Terry James, is just itching to sort things out for him, but for once, he needs to do it himself. If only he can solve the mystery of where it all went wrong with his wife Enid, he could get his life ba...

Injured veteran Mitch Cooper doesn't know what's missing in his life. Bartender Charlene Carver is just looking for some fun. When Mitch asks Charlene out, both thought it was for a night of dinner and maybe a little more.But, when an attacker viciously stabs Charlene in the middle of their date, any future they might have together is in jeopardy. Can caring for Charlene give Mitch the sense of purpose and reason to quit running from his past that he needs?Even after Charle...

"A Visitor for Bear has the feel of a classic, and it’s so cozy no parent could object to reading it aloud every night." — The New York Times Book Review (starred review)Features an audio read-along! Bear is quite sure he doesn’t like visitors. He even has a sign. So when a mouse taps on his door one day, Bear tells him to leave. But the mouse — who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places — just won’t go away! Cheery persistence wears down ...

Homeless and broken because her memory fussy, she told herself broken, the people she meets during her days of homelessness are unique, she finds that each person has something to offer.

Finding killers is Calgary Police Detective Janice Maidstone's job, for now, but her parents want her back on the short-grass prairie in southern Saskatchewan to take over the ranch. Janice must choose between the police service in a job she loves, or the life as a rancher to carry on the family legacy.The decision hangs over her head while she and her partner investigate their latest case involving a pregnancy, a playboy fiancé, a greedy business partner, and a jealous bride....

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Ms. Plum is the magical teacher every schoolkid wishes for!Everybody wants to be in Ms. Plum’s class. It’s not just that she teaches the usual things in unusual ways. There’s something more, something about Ms. Plum herself—and her mysterious supply closet. Whenever she asks her students to get her an eraser or a pencil or some paper clips, they come back with something . . . unusual. Who’d have thought a pinky-sized alligator, a big-mouth parrot, or a tiny wolf could teac...