If you're wondering what to read next this summer, this list of fiction books featured on the first season of CBC Radio's Bookends with Mattea Roach is a good place to start.

If your house is anything like mine, “Mom, tell me a joke!” is a daily request — right up there with snack demands and ...

Yuri is a 16-year-old orphan who lives simply with her religious aunt in a big, old house in Communist Cuba in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yuri’s parents had named her after the ...