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El Niño

By (author) Nadia Bozak
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.

Honey hasn’t ...

This One Summer

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration

Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, ...

Devil in Deerskins

By (author) Anahareo
Afterword by Sophie McCall
Categories: Biography: general
Series: First Voices, First Texts

Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of ...

Gender Failure

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. -Rae Spoon

 

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender ...

Double Pregnant

Girl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies … but they need a little help. Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story of two lesbians ...

Skraelings

In this adventurous novel - set in the ancient Arctic, but narrated for modern readers by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator - a young, wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens ...

Conversations with a Dead Man

As a poet and citizen deeply concerned by the Oka Crisis, the Idle No More protests and Canada's ongoing failure to resolve First Nations issues, Montreal author Mark Abley has long been haunted by the ...

September 17

On the CBC Bookie Awards list 2014, Best Canadian Young Adult category

In July 1940, a British government-sponsored program called Children's Overseas Reception Board -- or CORB -- was set up to send children ...