(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A picaresque, absurd depiction of the perfect Nazi soldier separated from his battalion and manipulated by everybody.

(Paperback, 2nd)

A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America. "This is so far the best anthology of Latin American women's literature in translation published in this country. Highly recommended."-Choice

(Paperback)

Life isn't easy for 12 year old Peter Kim. The super and other thugs in his neighbourhood are out to get him. His best friend suddenly hates his guts. And he's stuck wasting his summer babysitting his weirdo little brother. Things hit rock bottom when his family's apartment gets burglarised and he loses his most prized possession.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Last Pages brings together some of the most thought-provoking and engaging works of Oscar Mandel, a noted Belgian-American playwrite, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and scholar. Comprising essays, a novella, a one-act play, and poetry, Last Pages dances through Mandel's archives with wit, sharp intelligence, and sometimes controversy, as with his essay on Judaism, "To be or not be a Jew."

(Paperback)

Linked short stories based on the paintings of Alex Colville and haunted by supernatural elements.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback, 1)

Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can't thaw the community's collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. Weaving in an

(Paperback)

Introducing an unforgettable heroine for our times, Nina de la Mer's bold and unflinching novel captures the mood of an urban generation, seduced by celebrity and fuelled by drink, drugs and pornography.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.

(Hardback)

Therese Wolley is a mother who has made a promise. She works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two girls. She doesn't dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless, mostly because her own father abandoned her before she was born and she has done just fine without him.

(Paperback)

Therese Wolley is a mother who has made a promise. She works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two girls. She doesn't dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless, mostly because her own father abandoned her before she was born and she has done just fine without him.

(Paperback)

This is a deeply affecting, sprawling, beautiful novel about finding one's way in life and the world. Lemniscate - a line that travels continuously outward as it travels continuously inward.

(Paperback)

Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her.

Lasante's would be considered a gourmet grocery store. Its tin ceiling and hanging cast-iron fans seen as retro ... [but] it was a vestige for the few Italians who remained in the neighborhood, and for their adult children who drove in from Long Island before holidays and special occasions to reclaim some remote flavor of ethnicity.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anythinglie, steal, killto get the perfect story.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Guy Mankowski's portrayal of the ballerina Yelena is wholly convincing, taking us inside her thoughts and feelings as she describes the course of her life, from harrowing childhood to professional success, punctuated with turbulent emotional crisis.