Chef AJ's Sweet Indulgence

By: Chef AJ
Contributions by: Glen Merzer

As delicious as their more traditional counterparts, these sugar- and gluten-free desserts are filled with nutrients rather than calorie-dense ingredients. These are desserts that you can not only enjoy eating but feel good about serving to family and friends.

Felt

In this story of a son, his mother, and her Alzheimer’s disease, a small Maritime town transforms into the loom on which the shared and contested memories of three generations are woven, unraveled, and rewoven.

Polestar Family Calendar 2025

Edited By: Ruth Porter

For more than thirty-five years, this award-winning agenda has proven indispensable for many thousands of busy families. It provides a flexible, spacious format for recording the entire family’s daily activities.

Powerful Thinking

Ready-to-use thinking strategies that helps student connect, question, visualize, inform, and transform their learning across the curriculum. Explicit, targeted lessons to foster literacy development and nudge student learning as students construct meaning, build knowledge, and think more deeply about content-area learning.

Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness

Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is an iconoclastic romp through the end of the twentieth century. The misfit characters in this funny, poignant collection of stories find themselves adrift in an increasingly absurdist world, a world they must reinvent for themselves in order to find hope.

Claws of the Panda

In this expanded and updated edition of Claws of the Panda, Jonathan Manthorpe explores Canada’s ongoing relationship with the Chinese Communist Party – and the collapse of this relationship in light of the CCP’s attempts to infiltrate and influence Canadian and global politics.

On the Edge of Being

Painful and shocking, the stories in On the Edge of Being manage to convey hope. Sharing her own experiences, and those of women and girls around her, Sharifa Sharif navigates what it means to be a woman in Afghan society, to live in the margins and yet—against all odds—retain a sense of identity and individuality.

Who by Fire

Dame Polara has spent her adult life in the shadow of her father, a shady private investigator. Now, she must rely on the skills he taught her if she’s to protect herself and the people she cares about most.

Autokrator

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.

Journey

This journal offers the questions, insights and tools you need to begin a profound exploration of self. Drawing upon her lived experience and invaluable training as a mental health nurse, Katherine Stetson guides readers into an inquiry of their beliefs, behavioral patterns and identities, shedding a new light on who they are.

Giaci and Me

A mother’s story from the early days of her son’s Autism diagnosis through to the unusual, the exciting and the uplifting. A narrative of her most innermost thoughts, realizations and fears, this memoir serves as a much-needed resource to support parents of autistic children to be inspired, feel better and know they are not alone.

Surviving Vancouver

This book asks and answers two questions. What’s survived in Vancouver? And how do you survive in Vancouver? Michael Kluckner explores the contested space of Metro Vancouver, using his classic watercolour images from the past 25 years.

Motherlike

In this candid, entertaining, and poignant account of new motherhood, Leyton weaves her own observations with historical research and cultural commentary on everything from the history of the birth control pill to the risks of labour and the realities of being post-partum. A personal story that reflects a larger picture of ourselves.

The Sulphur Springs Cure

Eighty-four-year-old Violet’s unexpected return to the scene of a murder she was inadvertently involved with seventy years earlier brings up long-buried memories, a much-missed girlhood friend, and of her own sexual awakening. But the past brings hurtful truths, leaving Violet to think that perhaps some mysteries are better left unsolved …

Messing Around with Math

Provides a wide range of ready-to-use problems around key concepts in math: numeracy, mental math, fractions, addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, measurement, spatial sense, financial literacy, equations, and graphing.

Magdaragat

Since first arriving on Canada’s shores over 150 years ago, Filipinos have contributed invaluably — though too often invisibly — to Canadian society. This anthology by members of the Filipino-Canadian community explores Filipino-Canadian identities, histories, presents, and futures, and serves to re-enforce their cultural contributions.

Radio Daze

When acclaimed comic writer Aaron Zevy began to collect vintage radios, his friends and family hoped they might get a respite from the barrage of short stories which had been filling their inboxes. After all, how much trouble can one man, no matter how unusual and prone to social and dating mishaps, get into?

Going Steady

Created to help couples break free of the fantasy of relationship “perfection,” Going Steady invites conversations, laughter, and revelations as couples work to build a healthy (and happy) future together. Filled with fun and meaningful exercises, the book sets couples up for success in their lives together.

Breathing the Page

Breathing the Page reflects on the history and animate nature of writing materials, conceptualizes the largely unnamed forces that throb beneath the language of craft. With five additional essays, the new edition deals with working with vexing proximity habits, investigating questions of narrative position, and more.