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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...

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf

The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf
  • Author(s): Timothy Taylor
  • Location(s): Paris, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything. Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular...

The River

The River
  • Author(s): Peter Heller
  • Location(s): Northern Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two friends Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of literature and the great outdoors. The adventure of a lifetime When they decide to take time off...

The Rough-Face Girl

The Rough-Face Girl
  • Author(s): David Shannon, Rafe Martin
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Mythological

This moving adaptation of the classic children’s story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by Lake Ontario near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife,...

The Rush

The Rush
  • Author(s): Beth Lewis
  • Location(s): Dawson City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me… Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawson City has become...

The Scent Keeper

The Scent Keeper
  • Author(s): Erica Bauermeister
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of...

The Simple Wild

The Simple Wild
  • Author(s): K A Tucker
  • Location(s): Toronto, Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new...

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