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- 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...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
NPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * Amazon Editors’ Pick * Apple Book of the Month From the bestselling author of Women...
Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers
- Location(s): Romania, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1899-1907
The Fusgeyers were the thousands of Jewish Romanian men and women who, unwilling to tolerate anti-Semitism, left their country on foot between 1899 and 1907, and headed for North America. Destitute but resolute, they supported themselves by giving theatrical...
- Location(s): Halifax NS
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Nova Scotia 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Indigenous
- Era(s): 1960’s to present
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, looking back
A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled...
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage...
- 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...
Gazala: A Hopeful Tale From a War-Torn World
- Location(s): Kosovo, Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In the post-war scenario of Kosovo, the youngest nation of the world, Gazala couldn’t have ever imagined the things that happened to her. How outer twists in circumstances add to her inner turmoil, and never let her settle with...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1860s
1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air – until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters...
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