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GoldenEars: The Whispering Mountain

GoldenEars: The Whispering Mountain
  • Author(s): Jane H Wood
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Children
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mira lay deep inside her den, nuzzling her newborn pups. As the weeks pass, the unusual appearance of two of her offspring grows more pronounced and with that, the pack’s behaviour changes. A strangeness hangs in the air, compounding...

Gravity Is the Thing

Gravity Is the Thing
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Moriarity
  • Location(s): Sydney, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised...

Green Grass

Green Grass
  • Author(s): Thomas King
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Indigenous
  • Era(s): present day

Strong, sassy women and hard-luck men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American Tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King.

Halcyon

Halcyon
  • Author(s): Rio Youers
  • Location(s): Lake Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Halcyon is the answer for anyone who wants to escape, but paradise isn’t what it seems. A self-sustaining community on a breathtakingly beautiful island, Halcyon is run for people who want to live without fear, crime or greed. Its...

Hangman’s Beach

Hangman’s Beach
  • Author(s): Thomas H Raddall
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Napoleonic Wars (early 19th century)

Peter McNab has inherited his father’s island and manor house in the mouth of Halifax harbor. As laird, he has built up some healthy business in Halifax and a retinue on his island. One day a crusty old British...

Headhunter

Headhunter
  • Author(s): Michael Slade
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Horror, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The psycho’s victims are everywhere—floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, nailed to an Indian totem pole on the university campus. All are women. All are headless....

Heaven in His Arms

Heaven in His Arms
  • Author(s): Lisa Ann Verge
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 17th century

The illegitimate daughter of a courtesan, Genevieve Lalande struggles to survive on the dangerous streets of Louis XIV’s Paris. Desperate for a new life, she trades identities with a woman chosen to be a mail-order bride… and is soon...

Heaven’s Door, a Novel

Heaven’s Door, a Novel
  • Author(s): J Kilburn
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Horror, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1990's

Organized crime. An undercover police officer. A murder. An accidental witness. These are the elements of a unique story about love, loss, adventure, hope, and terror: Heaven’s Door, a Novel by J. Kilburn. Part noir crime novel, part historical...

His Whole Life

His Whole Life
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim...

Honeymoon for One

Honeymoon for One
  • Author(s): Rachel Bowdler
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A cancelled engagement. A non-refundable honeymoon. A Christmas Robin will never forget. Robin Ellis has had a year she’d like to forget. She’s tired, overworked and most definitely not ready to spend the holidays with her rowdy family in...

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