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A Student of Weather

A Student of Weather
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ottawa, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There...

Bone & Bread

Bone & Bread
  • Author(s): Saleema Nawaz
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods — and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their...

Cold Mourning

Cold Mourning
  • Author(s): Brenda Chapman
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead. New...

Daddy, Daddy and Me

Daddy, Daddy and Me
  • Author(s): Sean Michael
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When Jeff agreed to be the sperm donor to his best friend Beth, he never expected a tragedy to leave his newborn and three year old motherless. That’s exactly what’s happened, though, and it’s totally thrown his life into...

Fall

Fall
  • Author(s): Colin McAdam
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Award-winning author Colin McAdam’s second novel takes place at St. Ebury, an elite Ottawa boarding school. It’s a place of privilege and hollow rules, of newly minted “traditions” and the barely restrained animal instincts of the boys. A handful...

Garbo Laughs

Garbo Laughs
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child, Harriet Browning forms a Friday-night movie club with three companions-of-the-screen: a boy who loves Frank Sinatra, a girl with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after...

In High Places

In High Places
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

As events bubbles to a scalding boil, leaders of two great nations fought in desperate secrecy to keep the lid on the world. Bartering, backstabbing, browbeating, bribing…and praying for a little more weight to throw on the delicate balance...

Jack of Kinrowan

Jack of Kinrowan
  • Author(s): Charles de Lint
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

A faceless gang of bikers on Wild Hunt through the streets of present-day Ottawa hurtles young Jacky Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land of Faerie. There, to her dismay, she is hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan,...

Learning to Swim

Learning to Swim
  • Author(s): Sara J Henry
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into...

Lost Ottawa Book One

Lost Ottawa Book One
  • Author(s): David McGee
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Remember the Chickulator at the Science and Tech Museum? What about the Britannia Drive-In? The Green Valley Restaurant? The malted milks once sold in the basement of Freiman’s Department Store? If you answered Yes to any of these questions,...

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