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Zoe Du Plessis's story unfolds against the backdrop of 1996 South Africa, caught in the...
Summer of the Dancing Bear is a historical novel about the "rite of passage"of 14-year-old...
Max has been a freelance reporter dodging bullets in Latin America, a small-time newspaper editor...
Joe Fiorito spent 18 hours in total, over the course of three days, on the...
Drawing on history and family legend, Anthony Di Renzo presents a tale of progress and...
Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in a neighbourhood of American draft dodgers and new Canadians. In a span of a few weeks his world seesaws. He is befriended by Rollie, one of the draft dodgers who takes on a fatherly and writing mentor role. Johnny's mother is threatened by the “children's warfare society.” Meany Ming, one of the characters by the rooming house is found murdered. He suspects...
"The police stayed on the street until it was dark. They put yellow police tape around the house. I was going to tell mother about the fight between Meany Ming and the Catwoman but she gave me some thing. It was a letter. She said it was from my useless... "
