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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): Southern Ontario
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life. In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country she travels, with her...

Burn Country

Burn Country
  • Author(s): Michael J McCann
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The latest in a series of barn fires in Leeds County turns ugly when a body is discovered inside the burned-out husk of an old hay barn near the village of Elgin. When the victim turns out to be...

Consolation

Consolation
  • Author(s): Michael Redhill
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

It is 1856, Toronto. Unable to make a living in the New World from his trade, English apothecary J. G. Hallam takes up the new science of photography, and embarks on a grand project to document the bleak young...

Crow Lake

Crow Lake
  • Author(s): Mary Lawson
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo Morrison are born in an Ontario farming community of only a few families, so isolated that “the road led only south.” There is little work, marriage choices are few, and the winter cold seeps...

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...

Halcyon

Halcyon
  • Author(s): Rio Youers
  • Location(s): Lake Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Halcyon is the answer for anyone who wants to escape, but paradise isn’t what it seems. A self-sustaining community on a breathtakingly beautiful island, Halcyon is run for people who want to live without fear, crime or greed. Its...

His Whole Life

His Whole Life
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim...

Indian Horse

Indian Horse
  • Author(s): Richard Wagamese
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he...

Kicking the Sky

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

Murder at Lake Ontario

Murder at Lake Ontario
  • Author(s): Kathy Garthwaite
  • Location(s): Lake Ontario
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a woman is killed after a party on Canada Day, a seasoned detective struggles to stay focused on the investigation. The body of a local shopkeeper is found dead on the beach. There is no question it is...

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