Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.
We've all heard of the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot and The Abominable Snowman (they're all here) but around the world there are many many other mysterious creatures regularly being reported and entering into folklore.
A Treatise of Human Nature, first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text.
Alien Invasion is the first critical look at the past eight years of Tory rule in Ontario.
What happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm.
H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.
Neil Young is one of Canada's great exports, his contribution to rock music.
Although society is becoming more tolerant of gay people, and even accepting of them in some places.
There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.
I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.
In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.
Man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts.
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.
In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.
Ancient Hindu scriptures proclaim that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world.
Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.
Enlightenment for Beginners is the simple account of how and why you've been imagining yourself.
The joke? Toronto thinks its the centre of some multicultural universe.
An old adage says "numbers don't lie." But how do you know if they do lie?
Sandra Gregory was caught smuggling heroin through Bangkok airport in 1993.