Pre-order The Seven Nations of Canada now Free shipping in North America; Available Oct. 1 Wendake, Odanak, Wôlinak, Pointe-du-Lac, Kahnawake, Kanesatake, Akwesasne, Kitigan Zibi are communities located all along the St. Lawrence River valley and its tributaries and are known as the Seven Nations of Canada. They have been home to descendants of the Huron-Wendat,… Read more »
BY LOUISA BLAIR Pre-order now; Free shipping in North America; Pub date Nov. 1, 2023 Muddy boots, cold hands, a pocket full of fossils, a mind full of existential questions. These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore,… Read more »
Pre-order Blacklion now; Free shipping in North America; Pub date Canada Sept. 1; US Oct. 1 , 2023 Bloody Sunday (1972) catapulted the Irish “troubles” onto the world stage, exacerbating suspicion in US intelligence circles that the IRA might turn to the Soviets for guns. South Boston native Raymond Daly, just off a CIA stint… Read more »
Order now — Free shipping in North America When Major-General Déogratias Nsabimana, Chief of Staff of Rwanda’s Army, was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six children found ways to overcome the rupture of their family—and their country. This is their story. Major-General Nsabimana, nicknamed… Read more »
Pre-order now; Free shipping in North America; Pub date June 1, 2023 Why does Louis Riel matter? Simply because this man of words and action is regularly enlisted, nearly 140 years after he was hanged, to support a wide variety of causes. And sometimes to combat the very same causes. Louis Riel left behind a… Read more »
Not one to rest on her laurels, Jewelle Joseph is determined to add the new VP of Sales and Distribution to her list of accomplishments. But she’s not the only International Sales Executive reaching for the brass ring. From the glitzy office towers of Toronto to the glamorous world of the international television market in… Read more »
Questions surrounding his parents’ deaths have haunted Noah Lamarck for almost thirty years. Now he copes with a grandfather suffering from dementia and an overwhelmed grandmother, the two people who raised him in Cape Breton. Money is tight and problems multiply. After relocating to Toronto to help his estranged wife care for their son, Noah… Read more »
Free shipping in North America Stephanie Chitpin was born in Hong Kong to unwed parents. A few days later, an infant girl in a woven straw basket was transported illegally to the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa by Ah Pak, head nun of a Buddhist temple with the help of Mr. Chui,… Read more »
Pre-order Cities Matter — available Oct 1 Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve the problems of our time? Cities Matter answers those questions and more. Jane Jacobs is… Read more »
Shaf, a physics teacher and a philosopher, fought as a partisan in the Balkans during the Second World War. He has not been heard from for 40 years. How could such an ubiquitous and expansive person disappear? Did the murder of his mother and girlfriend Nika by fascists during the War spark his sporadic displays… Read more »
