The Y Chromosome
The Y Chromosome challenges the reader to meet an all-woman society of the future, where the few remaining men live in hiding. When one of these men is discovered, the resulting conflict threatens both worlds.
The Band of Merry Kids
Twelve-year-old Pip idolizes Robin Hood and dreams of becoming one of the Merry Men. But to everyone else, Pip is the son of Aldwin of Nottinghamshire, a seller of wool blankets.
A Secret Music
Lawrence knows in every fiber of his soul that he was meant to be a famous concert pianist, but the road to his pinnacle of success—performance on the stage at Carnegie Hall—is a steep and winding one, full of obstacles and family tragedy.
Celia's Song
The people of a small reserve on Canada's west coast grapple with a horrific crime, the result of inter-generational trauma caused by the residential school system, and overcome it by means of their traditions and own system of laws and punishment.
Earth and High Heaven
What happens when Erika Drake, protestant and of a wealthy family, falls in love with Marc Reiser, a young Jewish lawyer in anti-Semitic Montreal in 1944, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
From Tolerance to Tyranny
A case study of how a diverse, multicultural society became an autocratic state. 1492 was the year that concluded the efforts of Ferdinand and Isabella to drive out all Jews and Muslims from Spain, forcing it to be a unified nation with one religion.
Luminous Ink
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Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and twenty-five of some of Canada's best-known writers discuss the purpose of writing in the 21st Century.
Molly O
A novel about a man's obsession with his missing sister and the alternative film star he believes she has become.
Out Standing in the Field
A no-holds-barred memoir about a driven, dynamic, and natural-born leader's struggle in a military still governed by a sexist ethic.
The Black Peacock
A work of poetic prose in which two overs orbit each from their first meeting in university in the 1960s to being reunited in the Caribbean.
The Family Took Shape
A teenage girl describes her life in the Hindi community in Toronto, with a widowed mother, an autistic brother, and an auntie whose cooking show is something of a joke as she herself does not know how to cook.
The Jane Loop
A story of sexual self-discovery by a young man growing up in the Toronto suburbs in the early 1960s.
The Pain Tree
In these ten stories, the great award-winning Olive Senior explores characters whose lives have been shaped, or twisted, by the African diaspora and centuries of colonization.
The Unfinished Dollhouse
A memoir in which the author learns to love her child through a difficult journey in which her child rejects the traditional gender roles she projects on to him.
The Darkhouse
In this novel for teens, a girl discovers that her father's amateur science experiments have sinister goals.
Delicate
A YA novel that deals frankly with the land mines and pitfalls of teen relationships and sexuality through the lives of two complex but relatable characters.
Transferral
A YA speculative fiction novel set in an alternate universe where sick people are made healthy by transferring their illnesses to criminals.
The Tiffin
Middle-grade novel about a boy in India who tries to find his birth mother years after he was separated from her by a message gone astray.
Live to Tell
A psychological thriller about a girl who wakes up in the hospital and must reconstruct the events of an evening she can’t remember.
