Product Description: Sixteen-year-old Gray Fallon’s life is looking pretty good. His easygoing parents -- a university science professor and silkscreen artist -- are happy for him to entertain his friends in his suburban basement “sweet,” complete with TV, pingpong table, video games and access to the outdoor hottub...read more

Product Description: Unique in its honesty and depth, Great Expectations collects 24 moving stories in an anthology perfect for any parent-to-be. Lynn Coady describes her own traumatic teenage pregnancy and the anguish of giving her child up for adoption...read more

Product Description: Not for the faint of heart, the stories in this collection go to the heart of what matters as people relate to each other. There's humour, but it frequently has a darker, almost sinister, edge to it. There's a tired pessimism, but it's tempered with moments of grace and avenues of hope...read more

Product Description: Kennedy, newly 15, has a lot of questions. Is her annoying little sister really her sister, or only her half-sister? Did her family move across the country for her father’s job or because her free-spirited mother had something, or someone, she needed to get away from? Kennedy is reluctant to join the ranks of burdened adults, yet is frustrated by the timid passions of boys her own age, particularly her boyfriend Jordan...read more

Rendered catatonic in her grief over losing her husband and son in a car accident, former ballet dancer Kerry Taylor undergoes a controversial therapy approach that has been devised by her doctor for post-traumatic stress disorder victims of the September 11 attacks. Original.