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Fight Night

Fight Night
  • Author(s): Miriam Toews
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NPR Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist * Indie Next Pick * Amazon Editors’ Pick * Apple Book of the Month From the bestselling author of Women...

Kicking the Sky

Kicking the Sky
  • Author(s): Anthony de Sa
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction

One in a Million

One in a Million
  • Author(s): Margaret Gayle
  • Location(s): Paris, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

Marcy Telford’s life as a struggling copywriter changed overnight when she won a fourteen-million-dollar lottery. Nearly every kook in Canada besieged her. Twenty-four-hours later she found herself in Paris with Josh McQuade, her big-hearted bodyguard. Marcy wanted to forget...

Reproduction

Reproduction
  • Author(s): Ian Williams
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible...

Scarborough

Scarborough
  • Author(s): Catherine Hernandez
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary 

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a...

Station Eleven

Station Eleven
  • Author(s): Hilary St John Mandel
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Now and the near future

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is...

The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s/early 1970s

Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn’t count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion....

The Gilded Beaver

The Gilded Beaver
  • Author(s): Margaret Lindsay Holton
  • Location(s): Hamilton, Muskoka, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Winner of the Hamilton Book Awards, 1999. What happens when a talented and up-and-coming Canadian fine furniture female designer, Iris, accepts a mysterious commission from a enigmatic and eccentric billionaire from Toronto who says he wants “good chairs”? The...

The Language of Secrets

The Language of Secrets
  • Author(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada’s Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he’s surprised when INSET, Canada’s national security team, calls him...

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...

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