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"Ableism is everywhere, and we cannot continue just burying our heads in the sand. To not stand up to ableism is to contribute to the exclusion and discrimination of Disabled People."Think you know what ableism is? Think again.Welcome to Unlearning Ableism, the book rips the lid off outdated myths, exposes the hard-hitting stats, and prepares you to be the Disability inclusive ally we know you are!Written by people who get it, this book is a call to action from Disa...

Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Sharma Shields's debut short story collection unveils the truth behind every monster with wit and tenderness.

In this instant bestseller, the Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet romantasy novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woo her. So when her grandmother whisks her away to the...

Saskia returns to Ivory Hall to train in bone magic, determined to stop Latham from gaining the power of all three Sights—past, present, and future. But danger lurks within the fortress’s marrow. Trials are underway for the apprentices, and the tasks feel specifically engineered to torment Saskia, which is exactly what Latham wants.As she grows increasingly more suspicious, her thirst for revenge becomes all-consuming. Together with the friends she can trust and the boy she loved i...

"Brave and heartbreaking... will resonate with all parents." Jen Pastiloff, author of On Being HumanAs a young suburban mother in the early 1980s, Cathy had a loving husband, a sweet toddler, and a vision of life laid out before her. Pregnant for the second time, with twins, she imagined creating the warm, affectionate home she'd craved as a child. Her family would flourish, and she would be the calm, unflappable mother at its center.But the univer...

“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publi...

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeBorn in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a n...

Sandra Shields and David Campion are a married couple who collaborate on numerous narrative/photographic projects, including the book Where Fire Speaks, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2003. They live outside of Vancouver, BC.John Ralston Saul's numerous books include Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictorship of Reason in the West, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century,

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times.Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love co...

Part V of the Of Vinegar and Honey romance series.He was still flipping listlessly through channels. Careful not to disturb him, she set the tall glass of juice on the small table beside him. With her mind and thoughts already anticipating meeting James, she didn't notice how his aristocratic nose moved as he caught the scent of her perfume.He arched a brow as he moved his eyes up while she was busy adjusted the position of the glass on the table. She was still oblivious to ...

Part 10 of the Rory and Madelaine saga.After kidnapping her, Bishop Reid takes Madelaine back to the house where James returns and finds them.With a renewed sense of independence and empowerment, James steals her away from the priest and rushes her to a safe place, but Madelaine has fallen into a coma.It's now, more than ever, when Rory's infamous fearlessness and passionate determination become Madelaine's only hope when they could mean the difference between her l...

Rory is nothing if not stubbornly persistent!Although Madelaine had successfully escaped him - and yes, he knows that's exactly what had happened - he can't let her go. After all, he knows better than anyone he has a lot to make up for.But as he uses his vast resources and sets in the hunt to find her, following her back to her hometown in Freeport, he discovers along the way a sinister plot is unhatching around her with the real possibility it could do her harm.Now...