**FINALIST FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONCANADIAN BOOK CLUB AWARD WINNERWORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBy the author of the award-winning The Ghost Garden, a bravely imagined, deeply empathetic novel of two adolescent boys, bound by friendship and a terrible secret. With love and sex so deeply entwined with betrayal and abuse, how does a boy grow up?**Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the m...

A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned.Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past ten years, some of the people who cycle in and out of the severely ill wards...

**FINALIST FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONCANADIAN BOOK CLUB AWARD WINNERWORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBy the author of the award-winning The Ghost Garden, a bravely imagined, deeply empathetic novel of two adolescent boys, bound by friendship and a terrible secret. With love and sex so deeply entwined with betrayal and abuse, how does a boy grow up?**Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the m...

Word Guild Award for Best Young Adult fiction 2016Grace Irwin Award 2016Literary Classics silver medal for Y/A fiction 2016Shortlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award-Ottawa Independent Writers Literary Classics silver medal for High school fiction 2017Set in 1936 Montreal, A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow...

A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned.Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past ten years, some of the people who cycle in and out of the severely ill wards...

Embark on a profound and captivating journey through The Gift of Time Poetry Collection, a poignant compilation of forty soul-stirring poems that capture the fragility and beauty of life and the different life stages and experiences that define our humanity.Reflect on each word where every moment is a precious gift. Through vivid imagery, from the enchanting rainbows to the serene moonlit skies and the magical cascade of a waterfall, experience the breathtaking beauty of n...

The River of Life Poetry Collection is a book of thirty poems created over a few years. The poems are not based on any real life situations. However, reflection, observation and imagination, would inevitably have played a part in their formation. The words have not been forced but gently flowed, outlining the beauty and wonder of life, recording precious moments but also noting life’s fragility and value. Readers may find that the language used within some of the poems resonates with their...