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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...

The Piano Man’s Daughter

The Piano Man’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Timothy Findley
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother’s own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man’s Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie’s mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued...

The Poisoned Pawn

The Poisoned Pawn
  • Author(s): Peggy Blair
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Detective Mike Ellis returns home after he is cleared in the death of a young boy while on vacation in Cuba, only to discover that his estranged wife, Hilary, is dead, and that he’s the main suspect. Meanwhile, Inspector...

The Reluctant Nude

The Reluctant Nude
  • Author(s): Meg Maguire
  • Location(s): Cape Breton Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fallon Frost’s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practical, ordered life...

The Republic of Love

The Republic of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Shields
  • Location(s): Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There’s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has...

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