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Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find?

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born.

A guide for Canadians on how to use real estate as an investment and retirement solution. Leveraging equity in a principal residence and using it wisely to purchase rental property is the solution to a safe, secure retirement for millions of Canadians. Many Canadians who own their home have never considered buying a second property. And nearly one-third of retirees are worried about running out of money.

“Why rent when you can buy?” More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership as a safe, attractive, and sure-fire path to personal wealth. This one-size-fits-all advice ignores the reality of Canada’s housing market. Canadians deserve better advice.

Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow - an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation - continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical information. Was abandoning the program the right decision? Did Canada lose more than it gained?

A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars.

Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive childhood behind her when she became the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. As she struggled for survival in the ultimate boys’ club, she called on her fierce and humourous spirit to push back against the whims of a domineering and patriarchal organization. Later in life, feeling unfulfilled in her post-military career, she realized that finding her true path forward meant she had to go back to the beginning and revisit the truth of what she had experienced all those years ago.

Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea that it would lead him on a two year odyssey, researching a man he had never heard of. Paralyzed as a child and told he would never walk again, George Washington Orton persevered, eventually becoming the greatest distance runner of his generation, a world-class hockey player, and a brilliant scholar.

Sadia wishes life in high school was as straightforward as a game of basketball. Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular crowd and has started de-jabbing, removing her hijab, at school every morning. Sadia's mom had warned her that navigating high school could be tricky. As much as she hates to admit it, her mom was right.

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees his life-or-death struggle echoed by the young bird.

Największe tajemnice drzemią w małych miasteczkach. Dwadzieścia lat po śmierci ojca Kaja Burzyńska wciąż otrzymuje od niego wiadomości. Zadbał o to, przygotowując je zawczasu i zlecając coroczną wysyłkę tego samego, pozornie przypadkowego dnia. Po czasie Kaja traktuje to już jedynie jako zwyczajną tradycję - aż do momentu, gdy w listach zaczyna dostrzegać drugie dno...

Największe tajemnice drzemią w małych miasteczkach. Dwadzieścia lat po śmierci ojca Kaja Burzyńska wciąż otrzymuje od niego wiadomości. Zadbał o to, przygotowując je zawczasu i zlecając coroczną wysyłkę tego samego, pozornie przypadkowego dnia. Po czasie Kaja traktuje to już jedynie jako zwyczajną tradycję - aż do momentu, gdy w listach zaczyna dostrzegać drugie dno... Tymczasem do miasteczka po dwudziestu dwóch latach wraca Seweryn Zaorski. Patomorfolog i samotny ojciec dwójki dzieci kupuje zrujnowany dom rodzinny Kai i rozpoczyna remont.

Ewa i Mariusz to małżeństwo z prawie dwudziestoletnim stażem. W ich związek wkradła się nuda, oboje mają wrażenie, że się od siebie oddalili. Pod wpływem znalezionego w sieci ogłoszenia decydują się na prawdziwą życiową rewolucję: sprzedają mieszkanie w mieście i kupują stare schronisko w maleńkiej miejscowości Podgórowo. Wydaje im się, że największą trudnością będzie przystosowanie się do nowych, dość surowych warunków życia oraz przedłużające się remonty, ale los szykuje dla nich wyzwania, których nie przewidzieli.

An old seventies trend was making its way back into the suburban homes of Montreal, Quebec. Husbands and wives were having consensual sex with other married couples and trying to keep the secret under wraps, unsuccessfully. Swapping. Swinging. An organized sex agreement; and to a thirty-nine year-old mother of two, like Valerie Matthews, the idea was riveting. With forty looming, Val wanted to spice things up by giving herself a birthday present - the sex life she desired, so she convinced her husband Ryan to join a club that would change their lives forever.

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 (PPD). The typical hold-and-release process in Ontario is seventy-two hours. She stayed eighteen days.

Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original - and surprisingly hilarious - memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List: Step 1: Stand, Step 2: Step, Step 3: Pee (Yes!), Step 4: Walk with walker, Step 5: Walk with sticks, Step 6: Walk without props Recreational interlude for sex Step, 7: RUN! Ruth Marshall - power-mom, wife, actor, and daughter - was in great health, until one day, her feet started to tingle.

Wielowątkowa, diaboliczna opowieść o tym, jak szlachetne idee indywidualnej wolności, w umysłach ludzi na wolność niegotowych, kształtowanych w uściskach carskiego samodzierżawia, przeradzają się w idee nihilizmu, bezwładne rewolucyjne ruchy i terroryzm. Gęste od mrocznych emocji, mieszaniny obłudy i szlachetności, nienawiści i współczucia, niewinności i amoralnego cynizmu, są "Biesy" krzywym zwierciadłem.

Czternastoletni Staś Tarkowski i ośmioletnia Nel Rawlison mieszkają w Port Saidzie. Ich ojcowie pracują w kompanii Kanału Sueskiego. Jako szanowani inżynierowie zostali zaproszeni przez władze prowincji El-Fajum, aby skontrolować prowadzone tam prace nad siecią kanałów. Wyprawa ma trwać około miesiąca, a dzieci mają do niej dołączyć z kilkudniowym opóźnieniem. Tymczasem w Sudanie trwa powstanie Mahdiego przeciw Egiptowi i Imperium Brytyjskiemu. Powstańcy rosną w siłę i Brytyjczycy są bliscy utracenia kontroli nad Chartumem.

A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises of masculinity, nothing went according to plan in the bedroom. Instead, Nellwyn had to learn to navigate the realities of sexual liberation, female empowerment, and masculinity all on her own.

TYM RAZEM BEHAWIORYSTA BĘDZIE MUSIAŁ ZMIERZYĆ SIĘ Z NAJGORSZYM KOSZMAREM. Półtora roku po tym, jak Małgorzata Rosa wyjechała do Warszawy, szefostwo stacji telewizyjnej chce, by dziennikarka wróciła do rodzinnego miasta. Ma przygotować materiał na temat ofiary gwałtu, której opolska prokuratura odmówiła pomocy.