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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 NS, 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...

The Grey Wolf

The Grey Wolf
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

‘Intelligent, warm, familiar, gripping, and completely immersive. Ambitious in geography and scope, I relished every paragraph. The Gamache (and Three Pines) we love, but utterly fresh. SUPERB’ WILL DEAN Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August...

The Haunting of L.

The Haunting of L.
  • Author(s): Howard Norman
  • Location(s): Churchill, Halifax NS
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private...

The Heritage Heist (Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries Book 2)

The Heritage Heist (Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries Book 2)
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

A fall fair, a cornered craftsman, an heirloom heist. When an antique quilt that is a cherished part of Fenwater’s past disappears from the market before her town’s fall fair, it’s up to Lois to resolve the quilt quandary....

The Horseman’s Graves

The Horseman’s Graves
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Baker
  • Location(s): Canada

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