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"In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation w...

"Like many Overseas Filipino Workers, Mary Grace Concepcion has lived a life of sacrifices. First, she left her husband, Ale, to be a caregiver in Hong Kong. Now, she has travelled even farther, to Canada, in the hopes of one day sponsoring Ale and having children of their own. B...

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

Peter Rogers serves as a signalman aboard the HMS Arum throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. This is the story of his part in the battle, and his quest for revenge on one U-boat captain in particular.

Provides information on World War I including the Canadian perspective on the war.

A prairie classic, Gully Farm is a vivid account of settling the western frontier, as seen through the eyes of young Mary Pinder when she accompanied her family to the Canadian Prairies. At turns funny, tragic, and enlightening, this wonderful true story of homesteading tells of ...

'Missing from the Village' is the tragic story of the disappearance of eight men - the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur - from Toronto's queer community, and the failures of the social and political systems which allowed the cases to go unsolved for so long. Ling lives in ...

Franklin puts on a magic show for his friends, but finds that his disappearing trick doesn't work. His father teaches him some easy tricks, so his next magic show is a success.

"The history of the Toronto Blue Jays professional baseball team from its inaugural 1977 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments"--Provided by publisher.

Phyllis McCormack writes in her diary about the struggles to survive in Ireland during the great potato famine.

"Set in the sweltering summer of 1943 in Toronto, The Paper Birds, is a novel about Gemma Sullivan, who works in a top-secret government codebreaking unit in Mimico, Ontario, during World War II. Gemma is an orphan, who was raised by her elderly aunt Wren after the death of her p...

"Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and t...

Franklin loves to play soccer and with practice he and his teammates learn how to have fun even if they do not win.

"An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women-- overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds-- have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of ...

Franklin the turtle searches his room desperately to find his cardboard sword so he can go play Knights in Armor with his friends, but his room is so messy he can't find it. His parents make a suggestion that will help young Franklin be cleaner and neater in the future.

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

"From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the m...

"From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off f...

An introduction to the Toronto Blue Jays major league baseball team.