**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER.From the #1 bestselling Canadian author of Looking for Jane comes a riveting novel about one journalist's harrowing journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women's prison—and the detective who uncovers her story decades later.**Toronto, 1961: Emily Radcliffe works as an editorial assistant at Chatelaine magazine, surrounded by the best female reporters in the country, whose articles tackle the controversial topics no other wo...

Some dreams should be stronger than our fearsFiona Easton is a contradiction - a ski instructor who's scared of heights, and a passionate woman who's afraid of intimacy.But a lost child, an approaching blizzard and a legendary Scot force her to face her fears, and re-examine her dreams. Dreams which are hanging by a cobweb-thin thread...Please note:British English spelling and grammarFear of Falling

A royal castle. A murder. The only witness? A horse.Izzy Paterson prefers horses to humans—and spreadsheets to small talk. By day, she trains horses at a Highland estate. By night, she moonlights as an I.T. consultant with a cybercrime past she'd rather keep quiet.But when a body turns up at Balmoral, the Queen’s summer castle, Izzy and her new friend Craig end up in the wrong place at the wrong time—and suddenly find themselves suspects in a royal murder.

All Taylor Clark ever wanted was a normal life and a traditional family, but so far she’s had neither. Having recently discovered her boyfriend was secretly engaged, and is now married to another woman, she moves to Charity, Montana to make a fresh start. The last thing she wants is to get involved with someone new.As an ex-con, Joe Collins knows a little something about fresh starts. Despite his determination to keep his head down and his nose to the grindstone, Taylor intrigues h...

Every child deserves the chance to learn, belong, and succeed. But what happens when the education system falls short?Lost in the Education System shares powerful real-life stories from students, parents, and educators who have experienced the challenges of today's schools. From special education and IEPs to academic struggles, limited resources, and families fighting to be heard, these stories reveal what can happen when a system designed to help children doesn't always m...

A Masterpiece of Imperfections is a raw and deeply personal journey through adversity, identity, love, loss, survival, and transformation. Drawing from six decades of lived experience, Gregoire Marshall invites readers into the moments that shaped him, from isolation and trauma to his experiences with love, family, AIDS, stigma, and the fight to reclaim his voice. Through vulnerability and unflinching honesty, he reveals how even life's deepest wounds can become sources of...

From a trip to New York City to a Hawaiian vacation, from a joyful wedding day to the heartbreak of losing a child, Our Happy Life is Frances Marshall's honest, deeply personal account of building a life and marriage across the decades. Told through the everyday moments that make up a real life family gatherings, health scares, tornadoes and floods, Christmas mornings, and quiet acts of faith this memoir traces one woman's journey through joy and hardship alongside her husband, Bi...

To Be Continued... is a quiet reckoning. A chapbook inscribed with the fingerprints of war, fatherhood, loss, and longing. These are not just poems; they are fragments of a life lived in tension: between chaos and stillness, between leaving and returning, between what was and what could still be.Marshall McGurk, a West Point graduate and Special Forces officer, is a man who has carried both rifles and regrets. His lines are light, yet stripped to the bone, and puls...

First come the tumours and then the unrelenting hunger.Every spring, Rachel Dunn must choose a new victim to consume so she can shed her decaying body and transform into her prey.For the past 130 years, she's carefully chosen her victims—those young and unattached so she can easily slip into their lives. She's studied Maggie for weeks, her routines and her habits. Maggie's life will end and Rachel's will begin.Again.But Maggie isn't as unattached as she thou...

Who knew riding a unicorn would be so much fun?If Scottish teenager Corinne MacArthur had known what the Feyland computer game really was, she might have found a different way to escape her everyday life... But, with a majestic faerie King, a magical unicorn and a handsome bard, why wouldn't she want to play?However, it's a game that comes with dangerous adversaries—like the Wild Hunt, who pick up Corinne's trail, their ghastly hounds bayin...

What is Violent Communication?If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's "good/bad" or what's "right/wrong" with people— c...

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of the Victorian period, and have come to embody a substantial part of what we mean by the term 'Victorian'. In Britain in 1859: Custom, History, Modernity, these enduring texts are read alongside key events of the year; other significant publications from authors such as Collins, Smiles, Mill...