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Kamouraska

Kamouraska
  • Author(s): Anne Hébert
  • Location(s): Kamouraska
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d’Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for...

Kicking the Sky

Kicking the Sky
  • Author(s): Anthony de Sa
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Kingdom of the Blind

Kingdom of the Blind
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. When Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the former...

Kings of the Yukon

Kings of the Yukon
  • Author(s): Adam Weymouth
  • Location(s): Canada, Alaska
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019** ‘Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a...

Knights of the North

Knights of the North
  • Author(s): Bobby Hutchinson
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Constable Christine Johnstone joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police looking for travel, adventure and promotion. But working undercover has put her life in danger, and the best way to protect her is to hide her in plain sight—as a...

Landslide

Landslide
  • Author(s): Desmond Bagley
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Geologist Bob Boyd, who works in British Columbia timber country, has no memory of his past following a terrible accident, which only he survived. Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new...

Late Nights on Air

Late Nights on Air
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): Northwest Territories
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though...

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...

Life Eternal

Life Eternal
  • Author(s): Yvonne Woon
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the she died last May, and was brought back...

Life in the Court of Matane

Life in the Court of Matane
  • Author(s): Eric Dupont, Peter McCambridge (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1980s

Nadia Comaneci’s gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook—as...

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