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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...

Peak

Peak
  • Author(s): Eric Sparling
  • Location(s): The Himalayas, Nova Scotia, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Phil Truss is dying of cancer. The wealthy amateur climber wants to stand on the summit of K2 before he goes. To achieve his dream he hires one of the planet’s best alpinists to organize and lead a team....

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage
  • Author(s): Diana Davidson
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, “Spirit Lake” has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey...

Please Join Us

Please Join Us
  • Author(s): Catherine McKenzie
  • Location(s): Colorado, Canada
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

At thirty-nine, Nicole Mueller’s life is on the rocks. Her once brilliant law career is falling apart. She and her husband, Dan, are soon to be forced out of the apartment they love. After a warning from her firm’s...

Postcards from Goa

Postcards from Goa
  • Author(s): Simran Silva
  • Location(s): Goa, Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945-47, 1998

Goa, India 1945 India sought to reclaim her land from 400 years of Portuguese rule. Amidst the turmoil, and hatred, a friendship is born between two people from opposing sides. As the forbidden friendship deepens, could anything destroy the...

Property Values

Property Values
  • Author(s): Charles DeMers
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The worlds of urban gentrification, overpriced real estate, and gang violence collide in this wry and sardonic crime novel by author and comedian Charles Demers. As a shaky truce between suburban gangsters starts to unravel, schlubby civilian Scott Clark...

Random Passage

Random Passage
  • Author(s): Bernice Morgan
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage from Weymouth, England to unknown prospects, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing: a fresh start in a distant country, New Found Land. There,...

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