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- Location(s): Ontario, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history...
- Location(s): Detroit, Vancouver
- Genre(s): Thriller
When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, she is unprepared for the memories...
It Isn’t Cheating if He’s Dead
- Location(s): Calgary, Canada, Vancouver
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day (2013 ish)
Jemima Stone waited four long years for her missing fiancé, Gerald, to come home, burying herself in her job and feeding the homeless in a local park. When Gerald is found dead halfway across the country, she drowns herself...
- Location(s): Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
A family saga, set during the Great Depression, when hope and opportunity clashed for all who tried to make a living off the land. Based on the true story of her grandmother’s trials, Diana Stevan continues the amazing tale...
- Location(s): Winnipeg
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...
- Location(s): Algonquin Bay
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer… But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s
One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...
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