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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...

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
  • Author(s): Diana Stevan
  • Location(s): Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A family saga, set during the Great Depression, when hope and opportunity clashed for all who tried to make a living off the land. Based on the true story of her grandmother’s trials, Diana Stevan continues the amazing tale...

New Girl in Little Cove

New Girl in Little Cove
  • Author(s): Damhnait Monaghan
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): 1980s

When a new teacher arrives in a tiny fishing village, she realizes the most important lessons are the ones she learns outside the classroom. It’s 1985. Rachel O’Brien arrives in Little Cove, Newfoundland seeking a fresh start after her...

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...

Sweetland

Sweetland
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package the sole stipulation being that everyone...

The Bleeding

The Bleeding
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec, Paris
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… FIRST in a bewitching new series ‘The Bleeding begins...

The Coral Bride

The Coral Bride
  • Author(s): Roxanne Bouchard, David Warriner (translator)
  • Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world. But Moralès...

The Master

The Master
  • Author(s): Dora Ilieva
  • Location(s): Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Three years after her father’s tragic death, Kossara receives a mysterious phone call and a lucrative job offer. Eager to relaunch her academic career, she silences the voice of caution and accepts the proposal which requires that she return...

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
  • Author(s): Annie Proulx
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land...

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