Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage. His legion of fans—the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out—...
Leacock Medal 2022
The Leacock Medal for Humour is an annual award for Canadian humour writing. For more information about the award, please visit the Leacock Associates website.
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Auteur:James, Ron.Sommaire: - Auteur:Critch, MarkSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The heartfelt and hilarious story of beloved Canadian comedian Mark Critch's journey from Newfoundland to the national stage—and back home again. One of Mark Critch's earliest acting gigs was in a Newfoundland...
- Auteur:Wilson, K.R.Sommaire:
When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for...
- Auteur:Austin, EmilySommaire:
This hilarious and profound debut for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, follows a morbidly anxious young woman - "the kindhearted heroine we all need right now" (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author) - who...
- Auteur:Jalaluddin, UzmaSommaire:
From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of "You've Got Mail," set in two competing halal restaurants. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden...
- Auteur:Zhao, Xiran JaySommaire:
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-...
- Auteur:Sasvari, Joanne, Postnikoff, DawnSommaire:
Plenty of people talk about farm-to-table dining these days. But on Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands, it's truly a way of life. And why not, when there is so much abundance to choose from? From the Comox Valley to the...
- Auteur:Mercer, RickSommaire:
Canada's beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time.
What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone's lips when the beloved comedian retired his hugely successful TV show after 15 seasons—...
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What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in...
- Auteur:Gordon, JamesSommaire:
A story about the power of stories! It's a novel. It's an album. It's "The Ark Of The Oven Mitt." A Reporter for a Canadian music magazine is asked to do a 'where-are-they-now' story about 'Miles and Myles', a popular band in the '80s....
- Auteur:Ozeki, RuthSommaire:
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Auteur:Myers, ChristinaSommaire:
At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend's couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David's ad...
- Auteur:George, K.Sommaire:
A little girl is always missing out on the wonderful things her family gets to see and do, just because she is the youngest and littlest. She misses seeing shooting stars because she goes to bed too early; she can't pick the first apple...
- Auteur:Morstad, JulieSommaire:
** IBBY 2022 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award Honor Book** An imaginative picture book that combines nature and play to talk about the passage of time.
- Auteur:McLennan, Bill, Wilson, Jordan, Duffek, KarenSommaire:
Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of "art" or "artifact"...
