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Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Current
From Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett comes a healing and heart-warming fantasy with magic shops, rescue cats and a second chance at love. Agnes Aubert is very fond of making lists. These lists kept...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. Now a major NETFLIX series. ‘Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.’ Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and...
- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
Harold Macy’s newest book, a collection of short stories depicting life in British Columbia, resonates with the land and the people who inhabit it. Whether he’s chronicling the death song of a Douglas fir, the brassy orchestra of trumpeter...
- Location(s): Saskatchewan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing...
Amanda in Alberta:The Writing on the Stone
- Location(s): Alberta
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): present day
Amanda is delighted to show Leah aaround Alberta during her visit from England. They take in the Calgary Stampede, go on a cattle drive, visit Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, spend time with the dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and...
An Architect’s Address Book: Places That Shaped a Career
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Current
An Architect’s Address Book is memoir in 18 chapters of the places Robert Lemon has lived, studied, and worked over the past six decades. Some are of places that he has visited many times and are important to his...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl; her ever-charming husband – an academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture – is...
- Location(s): Prince Edward Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a...
- Location(s): Vancouver
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
On the telephone, Maxine Bleckner, frazzled single mother, is India McBride, voluptuous sex goddess. Left pregnant and penniless by a lying, conniving scoundrel, Maxine Bleckner has found an unorthodox way to support herself and baby Graham. Her alter-ego, India...
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast
- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990
A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors–in their fifties, and fraternal twins–own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the “gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused,” can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think...
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