"The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages...

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

Banished from her home at Buckshaw for her recent indiscretions, Flavia is shipped across the ocean to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Toronto, her mother's alma mater, there to be inducted into a mysterious organization known as the Nide. No sooner does she arrive, however, than a body comes crashing down out of the chimney and into her room, setting off a series of investigations into mysterious disappearances of girls from the school.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live.

Filled with backstage photos from his own personal collection, 18 and Life on Skid Row is the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of a band that broke up in its prime. It is the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then his home. It is a story of perseverance, wine, women, and song and a man who has made his life on the road and always will.

10 books. An extremely tall dyslexic is pushed away from his family's Washington dairy farm to join the Border Patrol, where he indulges his obsessions with birds and art while occasionally catching smugglers and illegal immigrants on the British Columbian border.

Collection of nine short stories. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl's practical joke. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. Men and women are subtly revealed. Personal histories unfold in rich detail of circumstances and feeling.

The off-the-grid town of Rockton is an isolated community in Canada, built as a haven for people running from their pasts. There's no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. Casey Duncan has been put in charge of Oliver Brady, a dangerous criminal, but the council doesn't have a plan to keep him imprisoned. The longer Brady stays in town, the more people seem to die around him. Evidence...