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My Cousin’s Cousin

My Cousin’s Cousin
  • Author(s): Susana Cory-Wright
  • Location(s): Spain, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s-to present day

My Cousin’s Cousin follows the lives of playboys Emil and Rafael whose carefree existence is disrupted by the arrival of their much younger cousin Ino. Over the next few years, the seemingly glamorous lives of all three will change...

Nine Birds Singing

Nine Birds Singing
  • Author(s): Edythe Anstey Hanen
  • Location(s): British Columbia, Mexico, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Nine Birds Singing is a poignant coming-of-age story. Readers travel back to the swinging 60s in Vancouver with Maddie, a young woman breaking free of her religious upbringing. Follow Maddie’s journey from Vancouver, to Mexico, to the Gulf Islands...

North of Normal

North of Normal
  • Author(s): Cea Sunrise Person
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness–a searing story of physical,...

Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
  • Author(s): Jean-Paul Dubois
  • Location(s): France, Canada, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

***WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT*** Paul Hansen is in prison. He’s been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a huge Hells Angel with a fear of mice and an intense love of Harley...

On Traigh Lar Beach

On Traigh Lar Beach
  • Author(s): Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
  • Location(s): Canada, East Coast USA, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Erica Winchat, a young writer overwhelmed by the stress of her first book contract, discovers thirteen curious items tangled in the flotsam on the Scottish beach of Tràigh Lar. Erica tells the intriguing story of the owner of each...

One Good Hustle

One Good Hustle
  • Author(s): Billie Livingston
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The child of two con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner. After a hustle gone dangerously wrong, her mother, Marlene, is sliding into an abyss...

One in a Million

One in a Million
  • Author(s): Margaret Gayle
  • Location(s): Paris, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

Marcy Telford’s life as a struggling copywriter changed overnight when she won a fourteen-million-dollar lottery. Nearly every kook in Canada besieged her. Twenty-four-hours later she found herself in Paris with Josh McQuade, her big-hearted bodyguard. Marcy wanted to forget...

Open House: A Life in Thirty-Two Moves

Open House: A Life in Thirty-Two Moves
  • Author(s): Jane Christmas
  • Location(s): England, Canada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she’s moved thirty-two times....

Out of Options

Out of Options
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

Out of Options is a prequel novella to the Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries series, and introduces Lois Stone and her companions, Raggs and Ribbons, a pair of perceptive calico cats. A dry district, a shocking secret, a missing person....

Patrimony

Patrimony
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 60's and early 70's

During the turbulent sixties, the call for Quebec independence created a political and social maelstrom in Canada. For nearly ten years, riots, bombings, labor strikes and violent street scenes were part of everyday life in Montreal, the epicenter of...

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