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		Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an exposé of Phasmatia, the world’s first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.
		In Come Looking for Me, a mysterious young English woman named Emily risks a crossing of the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for the promise of a new adventure in Canada. But she never arrives.
		Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf.
		Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.

		This story of one Canadian town’s library reveals universal patterns in love for reading and battles for books as librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists and avid book readers mix it up for more than a century.
		Entrapment of the very poor is not an act of nature, nor is pillaging of natural resources, policing that sees no crime, or officials who do not enforce rules, but one Canadian MP has a plan to fix this widespread corruption that is so debilitating us all.
		A startling debut novel, this page-turning story reveals the conflicts of a young Anglo-German Canadian smuggled into Germany during the First World War to discover the Imperial General Staff’s top-secret plan to break the deadlock on the Western Front.
		Gerald Archambeau’s courageous life along the frontiers of race relations in Jamaica, Canada and the United States is portrayed through humor and irony as well as important social history on every page of this true-life story as he blazes a new path for equality.
		This surprising memoir by Treasa O’Driscoll draws together her circle of celebrated musicians, poets, teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar drunkards in a single tapestry of poetic writing held together by the magic of the soul.
		This artful and rich account of Jim McRuer’s eventful life reveals how a determined and intelligent individual seeking justice through decades of battles created an enduring legacy with laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.
		Beautifully written and witty, this is the story of ideas about education, character and the global empire of English-speaking peoples as lived through the astonishing life of influential George Parkin, once perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.
		This collection of writings displays a woman’s “optimistic realism” with the grace, concern, intelligence and wit of a perceptive community leader who infused her articles with learning from literature and astute sensibility to human psychology.
		This powerful and true account of conditions in China today documents the repression by the Communist regime of Falun Gong practitioners through the experiences and deaths of members of the Bai family who, like others, defiantly stand for freedom to honour truth.
		When the Canadian north was being transformed forever in the mid decades of the twentieth century, no one saw it more extensively or described it more movingly than Leonard Budgell whose letters to a young woman are made public here for the first time.
		International investment broker Paris Smith is the star of his firm until the loss of his wife shatters his soul and affects his money game. Now, in a high-stakes gamble to save his career, he must close a complex $100-million bond deal. Travelling halfway around the world to do so, he finds new hope and love even as treachery from unexpected quarters threatens to collapse his financial arrangements like a house of cards.
		Colourful characters, drama, humour and rich historical detail abound as Meg Wilkinson, one of Canada’s first female veterinarians, experiences the wild confusion of gold rush Yukon and discovers the wolf-like nature of humans and the human nature of wolves.
		Sharp and clear, this startling exploration of birthing and memory is a poetic chronicle of experience between generations as bread is baked and preserves put up, exploring tactile experiences of the human world and the memory of what was after its reality is gone.
		Yaroslaw's Treasure is a thrilling suspense story set against the gripping drama of the Orange Revolution, the 2004 popular uprising that saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in Ukraine to overthrow a corrupt government and reinforce democracy in a land long occupied by repressive and foreign regimes.
		A root cause of terrorism in far-away countries, Canadians are told, is poor, desperate young people who turn their frustrations and anger on their “rich oppressors.” Uprising brings this scenario home to Canada.
		Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peace—fighting all the way. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option. His life reveals how uncaring Canada was about those to whom this land had always been home.
		Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid’s behind-the-scenes self-portrait about bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable.
		Magic Carpet Flying traces psychologist Pamela Ryan’s journey through her life’s adventures, from the rapture of achievement to the personal anguish of loss.
		A Novel of the Canadian Election that Vanished in Muskoka's Backwoods. Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.

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