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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...

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...

Trillium

Trillium
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • Location(s): Beamsville, Grimsby (Ontario), Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Ontario, St Catharines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1750 to 2001

Starting in the mid 1750s, three very diverse young men arrive to the southern shore of Lake Ontario to start new lives. Thomas Hartford, a young British foot soldier is the first of the three to admire the magnificent...

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...

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
  • Author(s): Charles Siebert
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Québec
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods?...

Black Rock

Black Rock
  • Author(s): John McFetridge
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount....

A Town Called Solace

A Town Called Solace
  • Author(s): Mary Lawson
  • Location(s): Northern Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1972

Clara’s sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Seven-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents’ efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered....

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