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- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A multi-cultural infusion following a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings in downtown Toronto, and the secrets they hide. Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artists and daughter of Vietnamese parents is in love with her best friend Carla, a bi-racial bicycle...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Named NOW Magazine’s Best Emerging Local Author Where We Have to Go is a luminous and sassy first novel about the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams. At once wryly humorous and deeply...
- Location(s): The Gaspé Peninsula
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
There’s only one thing more deadly than the storm… Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec’s remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for...
Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
House Parties. Pick-Up Trucks. Cherry-Vanilla Ice-Cream. Prom Night. Unrequited Love. Welcome to the spring of 1987 and the world of Stephen Shulevitz who, with three months of high school to go in the small town of Riverside, Nova Scotia,...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early to mid 20th Century
Imagine a world where everyone lives in harmony. A world where square miles of farmland are given to settlers in exchange for them agreeing to move there. A world of freedom, laws, and opportunity. That world is Canada, then...
- Location(s): Cape Breton Island
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
She knew high school would be difficult, but not like this… Dulci Oyselle is a 13-year-old girl living on Cape Breton Island, excited about the new experiences that await her in high school. Starting a Celtic music club and...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
the story is played out against the freezing cold of Northern Ontario. children are murdered and Detective John Cardinal is assigned to find the killer.
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
When recently-orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except for one small problem: his uncle is...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Criminal defence lawyer Bartholomew Crane is despatched to a small lakeside town in Northern Ontario with a brief to defend a schoolteacher accused of murdering two teenaged girls. He assumes it will be an open-and-shut case and that he’ll...
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