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The busybody buddha
In the sequel to The Great Laundry Adventure, the three Lawrence children, Abigail, Jacob and Ernest (from oldest to youngest) again embark on a mysterious adventure, but this time, the adventure is initiated, it appears, by a small blue stone buddha that Ernest discovered in a mysterious shop.
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Help wanted: wednesdays only
Thirteen-year-old Mark Rogers knew that his Grandpa Luigi had Alzheimer's but he hadn't counted on it turning his life upside-down. He doesn't know, however, how strange Grandpa's behaviour has become or that the kids in his new school have a nickname for him: Crazy Luigi.
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The castle key
Twelve-year-old Moon lives with her father after her mother disappears, leaving her with nothing but a beautiful ring, which also mysteriously vanishes. After her mother's departure, her father has become depressed and moody. Moon, however, believes that she will see her mother again and develops...
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Quarrel with the foe
After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his career and a not entirely welcome opportunity to make his name on the force.
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A walk in the park
In a new town, in a new school, fourteen-year-old Terra is experiencing many of the trials and tribulations that face her peers. She isn't finding it easy to make new friends, nor leave behind her old ones. And while some of the new girls seem kind of exciting, is that the crowd she really wants ...
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Off the beaten path
A Windsor native, Hesman spent over 50 years in Ontarios Near North, and for over 35 years operated Little River Lodge in Golden Valley.
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Breakfast at the hoito
This regional classic brings together a collection of stories of northwestern Ontario.
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My home as i remember
My Home As I Remember contains literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Mtis women across Canada and the United States.
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The lumberjacks
This is definitive history of lumbering in Canada captures the vitality of the lumber camps and documents the evolution of a major industry.
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Call me true
An account of the life and varied careers of East York Mayor True Davidson a fascinating and indomitable woman who was always ahead of her time.
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The place in the forest
On a patch of Ontario wilderness that soon came to be known as "The Place," R.D. Lawrence and his wife built a cabin and studied the ways of the wild.
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Growing old together
Poems in tribute to the authors wife, Ruth and to Lady Grayl, the great gray owl Nero adopted in 1984 and who lived with the couple until her death in 2005.
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Pearls and pebbles
An unusual book with a lasting charm, with a broad focus ranging from observations on the natural environment to the early settlement of Upper Canada.
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Fergus
Ferguss founders, Lowland Scots Adam Fergusson and James Webster, gave all new streets Scottish names, a practice still maintained by the local council.
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The north runner
The North Runner is a true and moving story of the building of trust between a man and an exceptional dog that was half wolf, half Alaskan Malamute, and the resulting mutual affection and respect between them.
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Along the trail in algonquin park
This book, by the legendary "Mr. Algonquin," has delighted readers across Canada and the U.S. from the time of its first publication.
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Owen sound
Owen Sound begins with the Native Peoples of the area and moves through pioneer settlement to the creation of a city in north central Ontario.
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When we both got to heaven
James Atkey (18051868) arrived on the shores of Georgian Bay at the time of treaty negotiations between the First Nations people of the area and the colonial government.
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Vanished villages of middlesex
Once home to over 60 flourishing villages, Middlesex County, in the heart of southwestern Ontario, has a rich settlement history.
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Encountering the wild
Poison Ivy Acres, 250 acres of wilderness dedicated to the preservation of natural habitat, has been home to Carol Bennett McCuaig for many years. Her keen powers of observation, coupled with her insights into wildlife behaviour and her evocative writing style, have produced this captivating coll...
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Heading for home
Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale.
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My dearest wife
The Edgars lives symbolized the increasing complexity of Toronto society as older generations gradually gave way to a new generation of "outsiders" seeking prominence.
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Travels in the shining island
A chronicle of the life of Methodist missionary James Evans (1801–1846), who created a Cree alphabet still in use today.
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The consummate canadian
This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada's heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation's growth.
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Bliss pig
This collection represents the formidable writing talents of two members of the popular trio of poets known as Uncritical Mass.
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The canadian kings of repertoire
A phenomenal success on the vaudeville circuit, the Marks Brothers of Christie Lake, Ontario, performed throughout the late nineteenth century and into the 1920s.
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Behind bars
Travel across Ontario and visit Ontarios heritage jails, ranging in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail.
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After the hector
The arrival of the Hector in 1773 sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. This extensively documented book is a must for historians and genealogists.
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An unstoppable force
In the late eighteenth century, Scottish emigration became an unstoppable force. Campey examines the causes of the exodus and traces the colonizers progress across Canada.
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Adjust your set
Adjust Your Set adds a further dimension to the impressive body of work by one of Canadas finest and most popular poets.
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I saw santa
Little Dwayne grew up in rural Jamaica. When Canadians visited his school and a tall white man with a white beard got off the bus, Dwayne just knew this was Santa Claus.
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See you next summer
Vintage postcards illustrate these stories of an earlier time in Sparrow Lake.
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The house of ontario
Beneath the history of Ontario lies a myriad of fascinating but little-known stories. This book has an important caveat: All of these stories are fictitious.
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Growing up in the oil patch
This book chronicles the adventures of a cast of colourful, ambitious people: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries, and developers, all participants in the growing oil patch!
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Canoeing north into the unknown
A significant book about 100 years of canoeing Canada's most remote and fabled rivers – the rivers that flow north to the Arctic.
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The cabin
Noted environmentalist Hap Wilson takes us along a wilderness trail replete with snags and pitfalls, through mishaps, tears, and laughter.
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Our dry cellar
Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardship and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Military logistics in the Canadian Armed Forces have long suffered in a dry cellar, as the under-ap...
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Unto the day
Life changes dramatically for suffragist Anne Brown after her husband's death.In the spring of 1880, wealthy politician and Globe editor George Brown was at the height of his career when he was shot by a disgruntled poet who worked in the newspaper's boiler room. Brown left an undeniable legacy a...
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101 fascinating human body facts
101 facts about the human body that will surprise and amaze you.Did you know: That you shed approximately six hundred thousand skin particles every hour? That yawning cools the brain? Or that the appendix plays an important role in gut health? The human body is a marvel — one that can grow, repai...
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Food junkies
All you need to know about food addiction and recovery.Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia — Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspective of a medical clinician and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? Is it ...
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I am heartily ashamed
In this second installment in Gavin Watts Revolutionary War series, raiding was resumed and a new British ministry announced a cessation of arms in July. Frederick Haldimand discovered, though, that the treatys articles threatened Canadian security and made no provisions for the Natives or the lo...
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Little emperors
JoAnn Dionne, who travelled to China to teach elementary school, offers a funny, poignant glimpse of a nation undergoing rapid transformation.
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Oak island obsession
For nearly six years the Restall family lived on Oak Island digging for the treasure of the infamous Money Pit. In 1965 their quest ended in tragedy.
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Out of darkness
Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award From the moment three-year-old Jeff Healey first laid a guitar across his lap in what was to become his signature style, it was clear he was no ordinary kid. Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff, a ...
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Jan rubes
Jan Rubes, a leading performer and director, emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1949 and became an important part of the history of the performing arts in Canada.
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A mom like that
“A brave and lyrical exploration of motherhood and mental health … as terrifying as it is riveting.” — Susannah Cahalan, NYT bestselling author of Brain on FireEarly motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi, those early days were ruined by terrifying, delusional thoughts about her...
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La fonction de général et l'art de l'amirauté
Cette collection fait état de l’expérience unique des Forces canadiennes et donne un aperçu des changements dont le commandement au sein des forces armées a fait l’objet.
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Reinventing brantford
In Reinventing Brantford, Leo Groarke revisits the grandeur of Brantfords past, explores its economic collapse, and tells the story of the arrival of Wilfred Laurier University, its early struggles, its commitment to historic restoration, and its ultimate success as a catalyst for urban renewal.
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Kate
A moving tale about a young woman experiencing the best days of her life, all the while aware that the time she has left is rapidly disappearing.
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Day nine
A harrowing memoir about a woman’s struggle with postpartum depression. Nine days after the birth of her daughter, Amanda was involuntarily admitted to a Toronto psychiatric ward for postpartum depression. The typical hold-and-release process in Ontario is seventy-two hours. She stayed eighteen d...
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Lion's head revisited
When a young autistic boy disappears while on a camping trip on the Bruce Peninsula, investigator Dan Sharp comes up against multiple possible kidnappers, as well as his own past.
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House inside the waves
In an era of packaged paradises and cyber surfers, Taylors mid-life blues seduced him into recapturing his youthful romance with surfing.
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Claptrap
Claptrap is a grand satire of the colonial mentality that governs the theatre festivals of Canada.
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Queen and consort: elizabeth and philip
In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. This love story examines their outstandingly successful marriage.
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Mazo de la roche
De la Roches bestselling novel Jalna took her from poverty to riches, but the attention came at a price, as she struggled to escape the public attention fame brought her
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Writing history
One of Canada's best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world, Michael Bliss describes a life that has taken him from small-town Ontario to international recognition ...
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Coping with death in the family
A common sense guide for all age groups on how to live with the loss of a loved one.
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Dinosaur fever
Someone is stealing fossils at a dig in Alberta, and Adam is determined to track down the thief. But dinosaurs are big business, and Adam could be in deadly danger.
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Fever season
Its early 1919 in Montreal and a deadly outbreak of Spanish flu is killing thousands, including 13-year-old Davids mother. Knowing he has a long-lost uncle in Seattle, David lands a job with the Montreal Canadiens who travel to Seattle to play in the Stanley Cup Playoff. Will David find his uncle...
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The milky way
Architect Anne Martin is living the good life, until she witnesses a scene that causes a crack to appear in her life.
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Sarah's legacy
Sarah and her mother become the recipients of an unusual inheritance. A home of their own sounds too good to be true but the conditions that come with it are strange indeed.
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The new wedding book
Inspiring couples to plan their wedding in a way that is meaningful to them, The New Wedding Book debunks the "traditions," makes sense of realistic budgets, and confronts the crushing pressure for weddings to be perfect.
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Robertson davies
Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada's pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century. Best known for his Deptford Trilogy of novels (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders), Davies led a life as rich in character and colour as that found in his fiction and essays.
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Dynasties and interludes
A comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments, this book examines changes in the composition of the electorate, as well as the technology and professionalization of election campaigns.
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Until niagara falls
Cautious and polite Brenda Barnhart is fascinated by the new-kid-on-the-block’s wildness and unruly family. Brenda feels she should show Maureen the proper way to behave, but the only thing she gets from the friendship is the feeling of walking on a tightrope.
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Snakes & ladders
Thirteen-year-old Paige Morrow becomes concerned when the farmer who owns the property her family cottage is on hires a creepy tree doctor. When Paige befriends the arborist's troubled teenage daughter, Janine, and her group of rowdy locals, she is pulled into a maze of dark secrets and shocking ...
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Fortune favours the brave
Fortune Favours the Brave brings Canada's proud military history to life in a collection of essays that showcases the fighting spirit and courage of Canada's armed forces.
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Other americas
Once again Keith was following older brother Don, as he had all his life — but this time it was to a dangerous rendezvous in Colombia. Leaving the Ottawa Valley farm for the poverty and violence of Bogota, Keith gains a new perspective on his life, his home and country, and their roles in the world.
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Crazy lady
David Bliss rediscovers his true love in the South of France, while in Canada Trina Button and Daphne Lovelace investigate the murder of an RCMP officer.
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Loyal service
Loyal Service examines the service of a number of French-Canadian leaders and their contributions to the nation during times of peace, crisis, and conflict, from New France to the end of the twentieth century.
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Hold the oxo!
Canada was young. Twenty thousand underage soldiers left their homes to serve in the Great War. Jim, at seventeen, was one of them. His letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training horses, and the price of hogs. His letters rested ninet...
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The whiteoak brothers
The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare Renny's heart. Eden meets a persuasive mining broker who persuades the other Whit...
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Mysteries and secrets of the masons
The Fanthorpes explore the history of the Masonic Order, its aims, its influences, and its role today.
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William c. van horne
Born in Illinois in 1843, William C. Van Horne was lured to Canada in 1881 to become the general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Railway. He went on to become the company president. He was a man of prodigious energy and many talents who revolutionized Canada's railway service.
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Heirs of achilles
Alan E. Samuel examines core texts of Greek literature to show how they have formed our modern concepts of the nature of humanity and society.
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Reply to the report of the earl of durham
Born in 1796 in Windsor, lawyer Thomas Chandler Haliburton, was one of the first Canadian authors. A longtime member of Parliment, some critics have regarded him as the last of the exponents of Tory principles and this book certainly asserts this notion.
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In flanders fields and other poems
John McCrae, a doctor and poet who served in Europe during the First World War, composed "In Flanders Fields", one of the most enduring literary expressions of the horrors of war. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems ...
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Wizzo and the cookie babies
Wizzo the Wizard, who lives on the moon, becomes bored while his wife is away on a trip, so he decides to bake a batch of cookies. But he makes a mistake in the recipe and, when Ms. Wizzo returns, she finds the house full of real, live babies - one hundred and forty-four, to be exact!
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Law and disorder
Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of a ruthless criminal charged with a fatal firebombing.But when his sleazy counsel is found dead, it delays the proceedings. She soon learns the victim was not the only member of the legal profession whose death was heralded by a tasteless...
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The gargoyle overhead
What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? Its not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle who has lost his greatest friend. Gargoth's greatest enemy is prowling the city, and its a ...
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Singing towards the future
This book tells the the story of the famous Nova Scotian classical singers rise to fame. Illustrated with archival photos and sketches.
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Treasure at turtle lake
Joel leaves his mother's home in Toronto to live with his dad and stepmother in Turtle Narrows. On the way he meets a man who shows him a map with three clues. Joel shows fiercely independent ally Paige the drawings and the two team up to match wits with the man, hoping to discover the meaning of...
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One large coffin to go
When an opportunity arises to travel to England to attend a puppetry conference, Polly Deacon jumps at it. Trouble starts when someone tries to steal her luggage, by the time she arrives in Canterbury she knows someone's stalking her. When another woman is found dead, a mangled puppet nearby, the...
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The path through the trees
Thirteen-year-old Norah Bingham and her mother plan to spend Christmas in the country with Norah's great-aunt. Great-aunt Caroline has many secrets. Among them is the identity of the boy Norah sees in the backyard. Who is he? And why is he watching the house?
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A hole in the hedge
An expert at fierce scowls, 12-year-old Kaitlin presents a tough face to the world. Still dealing with the loss of her mother to cancer, Kaitlin is less than kindly disposed to her stepmother and bratty half-sister. Meanwhile, she has firmly fastened most of her antagonism on her next-door neighb...
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Bush poodles are murder
Belle Palmers employee discovers her boyfriend bludgeoned to death in his condo. Miriam is eventually charged with second-degree murder and a stalker now has Belle watching her back in the Northern Ontario bush she calls home. Will she find the killer before a bullet finds her?
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The deep end gang
Twelve-year-old Martin, teller of tall tales and other untruths, cannot understand his sister's objections to the family's move to small-town Ontario. With Dad in the military, moving is a fact of life. Martin is intrigued by a deserted house across the street and by an unfriendly neighbour, who ...
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Dead in the water
Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of water and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, the authors celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you.
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Red ice for a shroud
A young Québécoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days later, Meg Harris discovers her frozen and brutalized body.
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This thing of darkness
A controversial psychiatrist is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be merely a mugging gone wrong, but Inspector Green's complex investigation leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.
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Victim impact
Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results. Was his computer targetted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang?
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The fragrant garden
Jade is a curious nine-year-old who likes to help out at her family's Chinese restaurant, The Fragrant Garden, after school. Though she is often allowed to help set tables or clean up, she longs to be part of the more exciting tasks such as helping in the kitchen or using the cash register.
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Cue the dead guy
In the sequel to Down in the Dumps, Polly finds herself touring as set and puppet designer for a small rural theatre company. When the stage manager fails to appear for the first rehearsal, Polly has to step in and do the job. The police won't show an interest, so Polly investigates alone, unwitt...
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The river runs orange
Meg Harris discovers the skull and bones of a woman whose very existence takes the archeological world by storm. But when her neighbours, the Migiskan Algonquin, declare their rights to the ancient remains, Meg becomes embroiled in a fight that pits ancient beliefs against modern ones and leads e...
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Caring for a colony
This is a story of pioneering courage and compassion in the New World. Jeanne dreamed of devoting her life to caring for others. In 1641, she courageously gave up her comfortable middle-class life in France to journey to the French colonies, today's province of Quebec.
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Canada
Desmond Morton, one of Canadas most respected historians, has given us a short celebration of Canada with a depth of insight that truly helps us to know one another and all the regions of the country.
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Little boy blues
Camilla's looking forward to cutting loose at Bluesfest, Ottawa's huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail-end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then news comes from the East Coast. Alvin's younger brother has vanished in the midst of a Canada Day crowd i...
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And on the surface die
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? Or murder?
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The drowned violin
There was something floating in the water ahead of the canoe. It looks dead, whatever it is, someone said. Thats where the mystery begins, and eleven-year-old Alan and his friends are determined to solve it on their own, without adult interference.
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