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Listen to the Child

Listen to the Child
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Howard
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

As Victorian London is over-filled with orphans living in poverty, stealing and begging, A charity worker comes up with the idea of sending some of these children to Canada where farmers need help and their wives need housemaids. The...

Lost Ottawa Book One

Lost Ottawa Book One
  • Author(s): David McGee
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Remember the Chickulator at the Science and Tech Museum? What about the Britannia Drive-In? The Green Valley Restaurant? The malted milks once sold in the basement of Freiman’s Department Store? If you answered Yes to any of these questions,...

Love M.D.

Love M.D.
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Alberta, British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

As an accomplished interior designer in San Francisco’s Bay Area, Zoë Jenkins is used to transforming empty spaces into masterpieces. She leaves little square footage in her personal life for anything outside of her thriving business and a renewed...

Manhunter

Manhunter
  • Author(s): Loreth Anne White
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Sergeant Gabriel Caruso arrived in the remote Yukon wilderness with one goal: to erase all memories of the serial killer who had ruined his life. But he soon discovered that the madman was hot on his heels—and after anything...

Mazie Baby

Mazie Baby
  • Author(s): Julie Frayn
  • Location(s): Canada, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Horror, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day (2014 ish)

When Mazie Reynolds was a young girl, she believed monsters lived under her bed. Now a grown, married woman, she discovers one sleeps in her bed. Mazie schemes to save herself and her daughter. Her plan will work, if...

Medicine Walk

Medicine Walk
  • Author(s): Richard Wagamese
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Growing up in the care of the “old man” he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters...

Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun
  • Author(s): Kat Martin
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Call Hawkins just wants to be left alone and leave the past where it belongs. The bleak beauty of Dead Horse Creek is a perfect place to get away from the world… a place where nothing exists to remind...

Monkey Beach

Monkey Beach
  • Author(s): Eden Robinson
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off...

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Moon of the Crusted Snow
  • Author(s): Waubgeshig Rice
  • Location(s): Northern Canada
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an...

Moonheart

Moonheart
  • Author(s): Charles de Lint
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Sara and Jamie discovered the seemingly ordinary artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim and distant place. A world of mists and forests, of ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards… and restless evil. Now, with their friends...

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