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- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible...
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
In his first novel, poet and short-story writer Michael Crummey reaches far into Newfoundland’s past to tell one of the colony’s most tragic stories: the extermination of the Beothuk people. Through the lives and reminiscences of some of the...
- Location(s): Calgary
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 2013
It is 2013 and Calgary’s Bow River is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a...
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
- Location(s): Alaska, Arctic, Canada, Norway
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): 2000
The author describes experiences as close to the edge of catastrophe as in any adventure book, but she rides them all out with grace, judgement and muscle, and her self-awareness, humor, and feeling for the animals, landscapes and forces...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a...
- Location(s): Whistler
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jen is turning thirty and has spent her entire life jumping from man to man. So, when her latest relationship ends in disaster, she decides she needs to stop pleasing others and focus on herself. And where better to...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Inspector Ellie March of the Ontario Provincial Police is called in to investigate when a man from the village of Sparrow Lake is found shot to death, execution style, in a farmer’s field in rural eastern Ontario. Leading...
- Location(s): Michigan, Ontario, The Great Lakes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern and future
From the Inside Flap DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Now and the near future
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden—and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who’d...
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