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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....

The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
  • Location(s): Niagara Falls
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Ariah and Gilbert go to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. After Gilbert’s sudden death she carries a huge amount of guilt and goes on to conjure up a formidable family saga. Also pertinent is The Love Canal Incident (Love...

The Favourite Game

The Favourite Game
  • Author(s): Leonard Cohen
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. ‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal....

The Gilded Beaver

The Gilded Beaver
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • Location(s): Hamilton, Muskoka, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Winner of the Hamilton Book Awards, 1999. What happens when a talented and up-and-coming Canadian fine furniture female designer, Iris, accepts a mysterious commission from a enigmatic and eccentric billionaire from Toronto who says he wants “good chairs”? The...

The Girls

The Girls
  • Author(s): Lori Lansens
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as “the girls.” They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their...

The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel
  • Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel
  • Location(s): Vancouver Island, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the...

The GRAVESAVERS

The GRAVESAVERS
  • Author(s): Sheree Fitch
  • Location(s): Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Starts in 1873, comes up to present day

Historical fiction set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s classified as a “young adult” book, but it was a joy to read. Very well written. I had a much better knowledge of the history of that part of Canada. Made...

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