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.
Nothing Trivial
John Haney, one of the creators of the beloved board game Trivial Pursuit, walks us through his life — his hockey career, his time in Europe, his theatre career, and much more — and how it all led him to acquire the plethora of knowledge that later became the fodder for quality cutthroat game nights around the world.
