Ron and Darlene Orlis are serving at the mission station near High Rock in Canada. The Indigenous people who live there do not want Ron and Darlene there. One of them, Guy Ferebee, tells them to leave. Ron and Darlene try to find a way to stay and share the Gospel but fail. To complicate matters, a forest fire rages nearby. What can they do? Sadly, they make arrangements to fly out of there and pack up their belongings. Why did God bring them there only to have them leave before anyone accepted Jesus as their Savior? What happens next is totally unexpected.

Kent Gilbert and his friend Bruce find themselves at a boys' camp and quickly become entangled in the mystery of an old gold mine. Their exploration of the mine disrupts their Bible studies, leading to mounting tensions with the camp leaders. The situation escalates when the boys get trapped inside the mine. Will they manage to escape? More importantly, will they find freedom from the spiritual bondage that has a hold on their hearts?

Danny Orlis and his cousin Larry navigate a series of challenges and tests of faith. From rescuing Larry after a perilous fall overboard, to facing the consequences of a fight, their time together is marked by hazards. Even as they strive to remain faithful to Jesus in spite of the pressures of high school football, they find themselves caught in a dangerous gambling scheme that threatens the integrity of the team. With courage and determination, they must expose the culprits while staying true to their convictions. Amidst it all, they discover the power of forgiveness, the strength of real friendship, and the importance of unwavering faith.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award In this stunning coming-of-age novel, the award-winning author of Women Talking balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better–looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada. This darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen–year–old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart. “Brilliant.” —New York Times Book Review “A darkly funny and provocative novel.” —O, the Oprah Magazine

Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn’t quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That’s where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey’s Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey’s literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey’s narratives in search of hockey’s heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.