The Taste of Hunger

By (author) Barbara Joan Scott
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Shortlisted for the 2024 KOBZAR Book Award

A Quill and Quire 2022 Book of the Year

A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment ...

The Name I Call Myself

Text by Hasan Namir
Illustrated by Cathryn John
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A sweet and moving picture book depicting Ari’s gender journey from childhood to adolescence in order to discover who they really are, made meaningful by self-acceptance and unconditional love.

When Everything Feels like the Movies

By (author) Raziel Reid
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Governor General's Literary Award winner: a glamorous boy fends off the haters with dreams of going to Hollywood.

Governor General's Literary Award winner for Children's Literature; Canada Reads 2015 ...

Wingwalkers

By (author) Peter Pigott
Categories: Aircraft and aviation

With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada’s other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, ...

White Riot

By (author) Henry Tsang
Categories: General and world history

WINNER, Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC); FINALIST, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) ...

Wine from Raisins

By (author) Josef Svoboda
Categories: Biography: religious and spiritual

This remarkable memoir traces the life of Josef Svoboda—political prisoner, climate change pioneer, scientist, and a man of profound faith. From his earliest days in Czechoslovakia, Svoboda had to overcome ...

Vancouver Art & Economies

Edited by Melanie O'Brian
Categories: History of art

Since the mid-1980s, the once marginal city of Vancouver has developed within a globalized economy and become an internationally recognized centre for contemporary visual art. Vancouver’s status is ...

Chrysalis

By (author) Anuja Varghese
Categories: Short stories

Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Longlisted for the ...

How We Gather Matters

By (author) Leor Rotchild
Categories: Development economics and emerging economies

Grow your audience, shrink your footprint, change the world

Events can help educate, inspire, and connect us to our community, but all too often they escalate into resource-intensive glorifications of ...

Unhomely States

Edited by Cynthia Sugars
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and ...