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Two Weeks in Toronto

Two Weeks in Toronto
  • Author(s): Amelia Doyle
  • Location(s): Toronto, Dublin
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ciara Walsh is dreading the thought of boarding the plane from Dublin to Toronto alone to attend her sister Gabriella’s wedding. Also, successful dentist Ethan O’Leary could imagine better things to do than driving to Galway to celebrate both...

Old City Hall

Old City Hall
  • Author(s): Robert Rotenberg
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A talk-show host confesses to the brutal murder of his young wife. The evidence is cast iron. But when a determined detective, an ambitious rookie prosecutor and a defence lawyer keen to make her mark piece together the details...

Promises To Keep

Promises To Keep
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Lyon, Provence, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Falling in love with the south of France was no surprise to Katherine. Choosing to walk away from her past and start over was completely unexpected. Her future seemed full of promise. A new country, a new lover, and...

Wild Fires

Wild Fires
  • Author(s): Sophie Jai
  • Location(s): Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The only things Cassandra knows about her family are the stories she’s heard in snatches over the years: about the aunt and cousin she never got to meet, about the man from the folded-up photograph in one of her...

The Recession Groom

The Recession Groom
  • Author(s): Vani
  • Location(s): India, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Parshuraman Joshi, 27, handsome, Hindu-Brahmin, IT Professional, settled in Canada, earns a five-figure Canadian dollar salary ! These are credentials that would make any young man hot on the Indian wedding market, so it’s no wonder that Parshuraman’s family...

Ayesha at Last

Ayesha at Last
  • Author(s): Uzma Jalaluddin
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been overtaken by a demanding teaching job. Her boisterous Muslim family, and numerous (interfering) aunties, are professional naggers. And her flighty young cousin, about to...

Bellevue Square

Bellevue Square
  • Author(s): Michael Redhill
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 978-0857302670

Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn t rattle easily not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they ve seen her...

Fauna

Fauna
  • Author(s): Alissa York
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays. When Edal Jones can’t cope with the casual cruelty she encounters in her job as a federal wildlife officer,...

In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): Ontario, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction

It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history...

The Killing Circle

The Killing Circle
  • Author(s): Andrew Pyper
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A spine-chilling, mind-twisting new psychological thriller in which a writing circle is haunted by a serial killer, from the acclaimed author of Lost Girls Who is the Sandman: dream figure or killer? When Patrick Rush, journalist, single father and...

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