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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 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 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 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...

Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are?
  • Author(s): Alice Munro
  • 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...

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