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The Maid’s Secret

The Maid’s Secret
  • Author(s): Nita Prose
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Molly the maid is no stranger to secrets… She sees everything behind closed doors at the Regency Grand hotel: wiping away the dust and grime of guests passing through. But one secret lies much closer to home. An old...

The Memory Collectors

The Memory Collectors
  • Author(s): Kim Neville
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over...

The Nature Of The Beast

The Nature Of The Beast
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny. Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to...

The Nymph and the Lamp

The Nymph and the Lamp
  • Author(s): Thomas H Raddall
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

The poignant story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and sensitive woman, and the men in her life. Set in the 1920s, the story unfolds against the wild desolation of a wind swept island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The Only Café

The Only Café
  • Author(s): Linden MacIntyre
  • Location(s): Lebanon, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1980s

Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death–a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native...

The Orphanage Girls Come Home

The Orphanage Girls Come Home
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910/1919

‘These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.’ – Lancashire Evening Post London, 1910 When Amy is chosen to be a...

The Other Side of the Bridge

The Other Side of the Bridge
  • Author(s): Mary Lawson
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father’s character;...

The Painful Side of Love

The Painful Side of Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Alberta, British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Mistakes. We all make them. But when is a mistake too big to forgive? What happens when the consequences of our mistakes are so disastrous, they cause excruciating pain to everyone we hold near and dear? San Francisco’s Dr....

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London
  • Author(s): Henry Chebaane
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1864 - 2024

WILL HER STORY CHANGE HISTORY? Alex Campbell is a Canadian musician struggling with a conflicted identity, a tragic past and repressed supernatural abilities. Orphaned at a young age, life was never easy on her and is about to get...

The Perfect Family Man

The Perfect Family Man
  • Author(s): M M DeLuca
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too. I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me...

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