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- Location(s): Nova Scotia, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1600s forward
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters – barkskins. René suffers...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
World-renowned painter Thom Tyler is murdered in Georgian Bay, Canada. The consensus is that Tyler had no enemies. Why would anyone murder him?Detective Sergeant Eva Naslund goes to work with a homicide team from OPP Central. They find no...
- Location(s): Portsmouth, Canada, Mexico, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the red rose drifted away in the sea with the ashes, it was not the end of the story. It was the start of a new spy thriller – “Beyond the Funeral” – a fast-moving story in which...
- Location(s): The Scottish Borders, Thunder Bay District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family’s estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal
- Era(s): Modern
Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable death, Vicki is forced to renew her tempestuous...
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today’s medical profession. Twelve interlinked stories introduce us to a group of medical...
- 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...
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
- Location(s): Southern Ontario
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life. In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country she travels, with her...
- Location(s): Alberta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life.
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War I
Set against a vivid backdrop of a world at war, “Burden of Desire” opens with a cataclysmic explosion that provides the novel’s extraordinary central metaphor. The blast and its aftermath, which devastates Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917, rocks the...
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