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- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Maui, Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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