Youth is wasted on the young - three Alberta university buddies embarked on a fun-packed, summer-long road trip. Undetered by the militant separatist movement, lack of money and questionable vehicle, they took maximum advantage of a university work exchange program in Québec. Whether being stared down by devout separatists or being taught to swear in French by supervisors, there were opportunities to create great friendships and share experiences in both languages as they left the 60s in t...

Three Alberta university buddies embark on a work exchange program with Laval University at the height of the Quebec separatist movement. They travelled, gained friends, get confronted for being English and even learned a bit of French. It turned into a summer-long road trip of adventures and misadventures driving from (almost) coast to coast.Caution: may induce the odd chuckle if you have a 70's sense of humor.

Delilah is a hard working divorced self employed Occupational Therapist. She has raised two wonderful twin daughters, who are both now in grad schoool. Delilahs contented with her life helping inner city kids with disabilities, whose parents cant afford long term therapy. But all that is about to change. When she meets a younger man in the neighborhood food mart and a near encounter with death in the parking lot, drove them together inadvertently. Life just gets a whole lot better.

The main character is a former corporate assisstant, who left the industry because she couldnt tolerate the cut throat tactics of the business. Now working as a food server she gets laid off her job unexpectantly . She has loads of unpaid bills and past due rent to deal with. And to top it all off, shes being denied her umemployment benefits. Until her best friend at her former job, calls to tell her he may have a job prospect lined up for her. One of her customers a seemingly snobby brit ...

***FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the ...

When Stryker answers an ad to work at a local clinic, it seems like the perfect job for him. It has all the elements of an easy job – a few hours a week, a salary that any man twice his age would envy, and best of all, sex. The physician in charge seems nice enough, but there does seem to be something a bit “off” about him. Stryker is too busy exploring the enjoyable aspects of his new job to pay much attention to the doctor, at first anyway.Excerpt:“Stryker...

Kate Hart and Dominic Knight's volatile love affair continues in the last book in the All or Nothing trilogy from C.C. Gibbs.Self-made billionaire Dominic Knight has always been the master of his destiny. From the boardroom to the bedroom, he takes charge of every situation, every impulse, every lover. But now he is ready to tie himself down-to one impossibly alluring woman...Kate Hart thinks of herself as strong and independent. With a brain any tech geniu...

     Children aren’t the same as kittens, as Miss Mary Mason is reminded when she volunteers to keep two orphans in her home through Christmas.  Ragged and dirty, their manners leave much to be desired.  Still, Mary perseveres, not willing to return them to a system that will certainly not meet their needs.  You won’t want to miss this remarkable story of the far-reaching power of love from internationally read author Annie Acorn!

Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis LiteratureIn this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyf...

There’s only one antidote to our speed-crazed, tech-obsessed, gluten-sensitive, password-plagued, financially-jittery, fitness-phobic, fatness-fearing world—and that’s laughter. He Who Laughs, Lasts takes the hassles and headaches of everyday life and converts them by alchemy into humour. This is the latest hilarious collection from Josh Freed, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour—and twice named Canada’s best newspaper columnist. Studies show laughter adds several years to your ...

In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveThe average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put...

Ivan E. Coyote is the author of four previous story collections (including 2008’s Lambda-nominated The Slow Fix) and the novel Bow Grip, selected as an ALA Stonewall Honor Book. Originally from the Yukon, she now lives in Vancouver.