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After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in Hong Kong prison camps before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same.

Impossible Parenting outlines how cultural systems, messages, and pressures are negatively impacting the mental health of parents of infants and young children, and provides practical solutions for parents who are struggling to meet these impossible standards.

Evangeline Gibb and her heroic horse, Kazzam, team up to solve a horrific crime where treachery, deception, intrigue, and suspense weave together in a hoof-pounding race to save the missing girls before it's too late.

Superstar female impersonator Craig Russell and Lori Russell Eadie, his wife, were unusual misfits who thrived on stage and screen through waves of change in Canada. They were talented and successful, yet they struggled with mental illness, abuse, and trauma.

A boy falls from a tree and his best friend feels responsible. Loss and guilt bind them as they grow to adulthood. When the two boys meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, their destinies intertwine.

Searching for an uncle missing for thirty years, Amanda Doucette traces unsettling connections to the recent discovery of human remains in the remote Alberta badlands.

Based on progressive nineteenth-century penal reform principles, Toronto's Don Jail never lived up to its potential, deteriorating into a place of brutal violence and death. Along with the architecture of this Toronto landmark, The Don covers the politics that swirled around it for over 150 years and the crimes that took place inside.

The Toronto Book of Love brings the city's history to life with tales of romance, marriage and lust. From adulterous movie stars to faithful rebels and heartbroken spies, it explores Toronto's evolution through those who have fallen in love among the city's ravines, church spires and skyscrapers.

Age of Unreason tells the shocking story of how hatred can become a cause and how we must stand together against it no matter the cost.

In 1870, Colonel Garnet Wolseley set off for Red River with 1,100 soldiers to end the rebellion started by Louis Riel. Two reporters accompanied the military expedition, the Daily Telegraph's Robert Cunningham and the Globe's Molyneux St. John, as well as St. John's wife, international burlesque star Kate Ranoe.

June watches and worries as her husband, Tony, gradually changes his interests, goals, and behaviour. The signs of dementia are all around, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's takes seven years. Four Umbrellas provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease.

Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from crushing his final exams to military school to a career in the air force. But his family's tragic past and its complicated present have caught up to him, and his marks are slipping, jeopardizing all of his plans.

In a very different 1933, self-styled detective Elias Roche and his robot partner, Allen, immerse themselves in the criminal underworld to find the killer and hopefully prevent war on New York's streets when a murder occurs that not only threatens both the police and the mafia but appears connected to Roche's past.

When an oil baron and his son go missing in the foothills of Alberta, ex-cop Lacey McCrae joins the search-and-rescue operation, sending her on a risky chase across dangerous terrain in pursuit of a killer.

The Book of Sam is the story of the unchosen one, a kid with no prophecy to fulfill who ventures to Hell, a fantastical world of falling cities and strange creatures, in search of his best friend.

The lines in the sand become blurred as Sesha comes to know and respect the Hyksos, and she wonders what she can do to prevent them from going to war with her people.

Maggie, Gillian, and Cole figure nothing could possibly go wrong when they test out the old Ouija board they find in the attic, but are shocked to discover themselves on a whirlwind journey they may never return from.

Going to the cottage is like going to school, only better. You learn interesting and important stuff every day. As well as fun and relaxation, cottage living throughout the seasons is a reminder that all of us, even the most urbanized individual, are part of the natural world.

Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey, revealing Jelfs' well-hidden tracks and the reasons for his double life.

Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life.

Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.

In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near Victoria, British Columbia. For years she wouldn't talk about her past. It wasn't until daughter Patricia explored archival records and shared them with her mother that a home-child saga emerged.

From his humble beginnings in Musgrave Harbour, Harry Steele became one of Newfoundland's most successful entrepreneurs.

Jennifer Pan seemed to be fulfilling her immigrant parents' dreams: a straight-A student working towards a pharmacology degree. In reality, her golden life was a carefully cultivated facade, covering up an explosive secret life. When her deceptions started to unravel, Jennifer's desperate escape plan left a city in shock.

The trial and conviction of Louis Riel has been the subject of historical comment and criticism for over one hundred years. A Rush to Judgment challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial.

Eleven-year-old Warren is flip-flopping between trying to fit in at a new school and being the protective brother of Bennie, who has Down syndrome.

Dr. Shawn Jennings shares his experiences in the struggle for recovery and acceptance of his new life after suffering a brain stem stroke.

After decades away, Tulla Murphy returns to her hometown and reconnects with childhood friends. Old hatreds resurface, mysterious deaths occur, and foreboding grips the town. Can the friends protect each other?

Ready to Come About is the story of an improbable year sailing the North Atlantic, through which author Sue Williams grew to believe that there is no gift more precious than the liberty to chart one's own course and that risk is a good thing ... sometimes, at least.

A whodunnit on horseback, Swimming with Horses blends equestrian sports, teenage nostalgia, political tensions in new and old South Africa, and a modern take on Canadian identity, all rolled into a taut literary thriller.