The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they’ve made a few unfortunate compromises to their membership, some of them aren’t getting any younger, and they’ve be...
Rolf the Ranger has a lot of problems for a nine-year-old boy. For one thing, he's ten feet tall and still growing. His size has its advantages, like when he helped out in battle on the Field of Snorre. But mostly his size means people won't ever und...
When 11-year-old Freya meets Morton  -- a peregrine falcon who has been stripped of his feathers  -- in the woods near her home, she has no idea what to make of him. What has happened to this poor creature, and what force has made him cross her p...
It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her dead boyfriend and agreeing to take a large sum of money from the young man's father to keep qu...
It’s 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice’s four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting -- Albrecht Dürer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary -- across the Alps to Pr...
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Woman's Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh, in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead. And, as it does,...
A family tree assignment leads an adopted girl to discover the different ways to be a family.When her teacher gives her class a simple family tree assignment, Ada is stumped. How can she make her family fit into this simple template?Ada is adopted. S...