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- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th and 20th centuries
Waiting for Time, the sequel to Random Passage, completes the epic saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. Here, Bernice Morgan tells the story of the strong-willed and enigmatic Mary Bundle, one of the most beloved characters in Newfoundland...
- Location(s): Barbados, Canada, London, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Historical
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a...
- Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
- Era(s): WW2 and after
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...
- Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...
Whisky and Ice: The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada’s Most Daring Rumrunner
- Location(s): Hamilton
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1920s
During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the “King of the Rumrunners.” The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed...
- Location(s): Yukon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, ‘White Fang’ tells the story of a young wolf-dog’s journey...
- Location(s): Canada, Israel, Israel, Palestine, Palestine
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century to 1990s
White Zion takes readers into the worlds of 19th century Yemen, pre-State British Mandate Israel, modern Israel and modern Canada. You will hear the voices of a young boy marveling at Israel’s first air force on his own roof,...
- Location(s): Canada, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid‘, Alice Munro’s wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose’s life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. Born into the back...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
In an account of the author’s involuntary and highly entertaining encounters with the wildlife in her backyard she lets the reader in on the funny characters of the wild. Comical situations dominate the stories Bea W Meyer tells about...
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