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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle
  • Author(s): L M Montgomery
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As...

The Break

The Break
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

Even the most familiar stories have two sides… After fleeing revolutionary violence in colonial Massachusetts, Susannah Mills is trying to put the pieces of her shattered life back together. When the safe haven that she and her father sought...

The Bride Ship

The Bride Ship
  • Author(s): Deborah Hale
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th century

A ship full of women could only cause trouble! Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way...

The Bridge Club

The Bridge Club
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back over 4 decades

Eight women. Four decades of friendship. One unimaginable request. Where can you find a story about friendship, laughter and the good things in life that also touches on alcoholism, infidelity, porn addiction, illness and grief? For many women, it’s...

The Brutal Telling

The Brutal Telling
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critically revered mystery series Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is...

The Corpse with the Golden Nose

The Corpse with the Golden Nose
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A world-famous vintner is dead. And when a heartfelt plea to look into the matter is paired with an exclusive gourmet event in British Columbia’s stunning wine country, overindulgent foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan cannot resist. Cait is sure...

The Cruellest Month

The Cruellest Month
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead… When C. I. Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec arrives the next morning, he faces...

The Displaced

The Displaced
  • Author(s): Frieda Watt
  • Location(s): Louisbourg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Torn between clashing empires and contentious families, Marie Levesque fights to find a place in the unforgiving frontier of Canada. As a young woman, her life is just beginning. Her friendship with Pierre promises of something more. But the...

The Diviners

The Diviners
  • Author(s): Margaret Laurence
  • Location(s): Manitoba
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, mid-20th century

This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process—putting distance between herself and a world that...

The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s/early 1970s

Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn’t count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion....

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