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- Location(s): Manitoba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant—and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her—Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
AN ENGROSSING MURDER MYSTERY FROM CANADA Many of the inhabitants of a Vancouver Island town are gathered at the local castle for the opening of a time capsule buried some forty years ago. But the event comes to an...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Gabrielle Roy’s classic novel follows a family living in the slums of Montreal during the Second World War as they struggle to overcome their poverty and attempt to find love. An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival.
- Location(s): Norfolk, British Columbia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present day
Life is for living and taking chances. Two single parents meet by chance and a spark is ignited but they live continents apart. They are made for each other but they have to take risks, take chances with family...
- Location(s): Mexico, Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Late 1960s
Yukon, Canada’s far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. The one his grandfather warned him about: “Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master.” In Mexico City,...
- Location(s): Prince Edward Island
- Genre(s): Romance
Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s...
- Location(s): Belgium, Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War I
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence,...
- Location(s): Ottawa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 20th century
Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can’t remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away from...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th century
The clouds of war have ravaged the continent, killing, starving, infecting every soul. The enemy is approaching, the promised bloodshed retribution for sins committed years ago. There is no escape, no choice, but to stand and fight against the...
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