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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Mira Achary''s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care and longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to parent. As much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her. Only when Mira is older does she realizes a truth she has been missing all along: though her family's experience may be unusual, what holds them together is universal.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The recipient of a prestigious Gunter Fellowship, Jessica leaves behind Jamaica, the only country she?s ever known, for Cambridge, Massachusetts, near the end of the twentieth century. In her fellowship year, she is to write a memoir about her father, a professor of mathematics at the University of the West Indies. Attuned to watching for meaning below the surface of things, Jessica learns about the women with whom she shares her year, twenty women, all in middle age, all accomplished ? considerably more accomplished than her slim volumes of poetry and one memoir allow her to feel. Amidst the academic, artistic, and scholarly life of the Gunter Center, Jessica finds comfort and solace in a deepening friendship with her landlady, a retired economist whose life story she hears and records over the course of her fellowship year.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Shortlisted for the 2022 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction Corbin Hayes has felt alone for as long as he can remember. His mom?s illness means lost jobs, constant moves, new schools and friendships that never get to grow. There?s a gap in his life that?s been waiting to be filled. So, when a classmate offers Corbin the talking bird she can no longer keep, he?s stoked. But when things begin to spiral out of control, Corbin can no longer get his mom ? or himself ? through the dark period. At his lowest moment, he?s forced to do the one thing he fears the most.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Award When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph?s reaction to the horse and calls out to him. Over the course of a morning?s worth of hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph and the homeless man talk and Ralph remembers a troubling moment from his childhood when an odd little girl, Danielle, drew the most beautiful and intriguing horse on his mother?s Everything Wall, winning the competition set up for children on the Otter Lake Reserve. Ralph has lived with many questions that arose from his eleventh winter. What did the horse mean ? to him, his sister, his best friend, and, most importantly, the girl who drew it? These questions have never left him. Chasing Painted Horses has a magical, fablelike quality that will enchant readers, and haunt them, for years to come.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. P.I. Charlotte Frayne is pulled into a dangerous international plot when her boss provides shelter to a relative fleeing from Germany and whos privy to information that could change the future his country. Meanwhile, Charlottes estranged mother reappears, wanting her help to find a child she gave up at birth twenty years ago.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Shortlisted for the Governor General?s Literary Award Longlisted for the Toronto Book Award Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother?s struggle with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril?s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward?s story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward?s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada?s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Shortlisted for the Governor General?s Literary Award Longlisted for the Toronto Book Award Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother?s struggle with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril?s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward?s story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward?s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada?s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives. A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother?s attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca?s psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead-end telemarketing job. Pagé weaves together narratives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in a novel that echoes the works of Lynda Barry.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In an autocratic society where women ? Unmales ? have been relegated to the shadows, two of them break sacred laws, risking their lives, to achieve their goals. Cera vows to reunite with her son, taken at birth; Tiresius, seeking power, poses as male to rise through the ranks.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The dabbawallas of Mumbai deliver box lunches ? called tiffins ? to whitecollar workers all over the vast city. They are legendary for their near-perfect service: for every six million lunches sent, only one will fail to reach its intended destination. The Tiffin is about that one time in millions when a box goes astray, changing lives forever. When a note placed in a tiffin is lost, a newborn ? Kunal ? is separated from his mother. Twelve years later, Kunal lives as a virtual slave under the thumb of his foster father, Seth. With danger and oppression making it impossible to stay where he is, Kunal asks his friend Vinayak, an aging dabbawalla, to help him find his birth mother. Vinayak introduces Kunal to the tiffin carriers, and a plan is hatched. Along the way, Kunal learns what it means to be part of a family.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The dabbawallas of Mumbai deliver box lunches ? called tiffins ? to whitecollar workers all over the vast city. They are legendary for their near-perfect service: for every six million lunches sent, only one will fail to reach its intended destination. The Tiffin is about that one time in millions when a box goes astray, changing lives forever. When a note placed in a tiffin is lost, a newborn ? Kunal ? is separated from his mother. Twelve years later, Kunal lives as a virtual slave under the thumb of his foster father, Seth. With danger and oppression making it impossible to stay where he is, Kunal asks his friend Vinayak, an aging dabbawalla, to help him find his birth mother. Vinayak introduces Kunal to the tiffin carriers, and a plan is hatched. Along the way, Kunal learns what it means to be part of a family.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Caf , which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.…

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. The Compassionate Imagination is a radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in a modern democracy an inspirational, aspirational blueprint for a Canadian Cultural Contract that reawakens our instincts for empathy and kindness, and integrates the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winter 1979. Twelve-year-old Truly has settled in with Andy El at Eagle Shores Trailer Park, but the peace of her new life is shattered when her mother unexpectedly returns after abandoning Truly the previous summer, asking for a second chance. Has her mother really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Ever?s father passes away suddenly, she is devastated. Not long after that, her mom has a stroke and Ever?s anguish becomes almost too much for her to handle. That?s when she gets the idea to form a group she calls Boys and Girls Screaming. Along with her brother, Jericho, and her best friend, Candace, Ever wants to bring together kids from their school who have suffered trauma so they can share their stories and begin to heal. Although the other teens find solace in the group, Ever tumbles further into depression until she reaches a breaking point. As the group learns the true source of Ever?s pain, they jump into action to help her find a way out. Boys and Girls Screaming tells the story of a generation of teens finding the support they need to process their trauma in their own ways. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the 2021 Governor General?s Literary Award for Young People?s Literature ? Text Winner of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children?s Book Award Firefly lived in the park across from her mother?s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But where is ?home?? What is ?family?? Who is Firefly, for that matter ? and which costume is the real one.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. NEW, UNREAD.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books - at the local library.But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie guides her to a secret, magical room containing books that she can not only read, but that she can live. Silva finds herself in the worlds of the characters . who all turn out to be real people. People she knows.There's a catch, though: she soon discovers that the magpie has lured her to these books for selfish and dark reasons. Going back to the books could mean losing her soul .…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Trip, the clumsy but streetwise raccoon, has managed to survive the zombie apocalypse with the help of animal friends and a few kind humans. But he can't help but notice one thing: he's the only raccoon in his crew. In fact, he's the only raccoon he's seen in ages.Where have all the raccoons gone?The answer to that question is scarier than any zombie horde. People have discovered that raccoons are more than just rodents who knock over their garbage bins; they might be a tool for ending zombie-ism.And that is bad news for raccoons.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner of the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature - TextWinner of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book AwardFirefly lived in the park across from her mother's home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But where is "home"? What is "family"? Who is Firefly, for that matter . and which costume is the real one.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner, SYRCA Snow Willow Award 2024Winner, Forest of Reading - Red Maple 2025Winner, YA Dude Books Reviewers' Choice Awards 2025"[40 Days in Hicksville] is worth a read, and is a great example of the power of a well-written dual-perspective narrative." - Canadian Review of MaterialsKate doesn't want to spend one minute in the "Hicksville" her mother moved them to, much less the entire year she's stuck here in the decaying house they inherited from her grandparents. She misses her boyfriend and sneaking out at night to make urban exploration videos for her growing YouTube channel.Zach, the boy who lives next door, tries to befriend Kate even though she ignores him. But when Kate discovers her estranged grandfather lives nearby, she wants to meet him despite the small-town rumours of his violent past, and takes Zach with her. That's when they find the crevasse on her grandfather's property and the skeletons hidden inside. That's the day they find out Kate's uncle and his friend went missing as teenagers.Instead of counting down the days until she can leave Hicksville, Kate and Zach start working together to solve the cold case that has silenced her mother for thirty-five years.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award - English FictionThe comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn't know where her "pet" - human child Connor - has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The first book in the series, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Children's Book Prize and the Jean Little First-Novel Award.Winter rains have swept into Eagle Shores Trailer Park, and Truly is happily settling into a new life.A new home with Andy El, the Salish elder who took her in. A new responsibility to look after her new puppy, Gracie. A new passion for playing her not-quite-new guitar - gifted to her by Elvis Presley, the thought-to-be-dead King of Rock 'n' Roll and Truly's pen pal.But then Clarice returns, asking for a second chance at being Truly's mom.Has Clarice really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her? And if so, will she have to give up this new life with Andy El to move back in with Clarice?Truly has a lot to write to Elvis about this winter.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. "Details about the space station come alive as the story unfolds. A fun read and the 27 chapters move along at a quick pace. A perfect addition to the middle grade shelves." - Greg Pattridge, Always in the Middle.A spot on the International Space Station (ISS) has opened up, and Mortimer, is not about to miss his chance to become an intergalactic space rat. And that's just the first step in his master plan to prove that rats are much better suited than humans for a future mission to Mars. He packs his camera and prepares to take to the internet with his evidence of rat superiority. But when Mortimer's schemes go awry, he is forced to face new truths about dreams, friendship, and choosing the right thing to do. Maybe not everything is a rat race.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Missing jewelry, a false accusation, and a real thief. Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I. is on the case.The name's Shamus. I'm a special kind of dog known as a Rez Dog. That means I'm a mix of different breeds and I come from a reserve. I live in the city with Mom and the twins, Rainey and Cole. We are one of many Indigenous families on our block. Life is great - until Mom is falsely accused of stealing from the jewelry store she's worked at for years. When the kids and I set out to catch the real thief, we discover some surprising and, if I do say so myself, hilarious clues - including a false wall, a lucky bowling ball, and a vicious poodle named Hepzibah.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Winner of the 2021 City of Victoria Children's Book PrizeWinner of the 2022 Jean Little First-Novel AwardIt's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But not eleven-year-old Truly Bateman - because she knows Elvis is alive and well and living in the Eagle Shores Trailer Park. Maybe no one ever thought to look for him at on the Eagle Shores First Nation on Vancouver Island.It's a busy summer for Truly. Though her mother is less of a mother than she ought to be, and spends her time drinking and smoking and working her way through new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise as much money for herself as she can through her lemonade stand . and to prove that her cool new neighbour is the one and only King of Rock 'n' Roll. And when she can't find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park.…