In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.
Elegant and edgy, vixen is a tense tango cutting through the jungle of the urban underground.
An old adage says "numbers don't lie." But how do you know if they do lie?
What happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm.
Kid Rex is the story of one womans struggle to overcome anorexia.
Thomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with.
The joke? Toronto thinks its the centre of some multicultural universe.
Dan Snyder narrowly escaped being cut from his junior hockey team for two years in a row.
Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. Hes a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston.
Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.
Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.
Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.
Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.
H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.
An Old West adventure set in the rugged Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.
The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre.
Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset.
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.