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Malabarista

Malabarista
  • Author(s): Garry Ryan
  • Location(s): Calgary

Calgary police detective Lane is under investigation at work and his partner Arthur might have cancer. The couple also looks after 2 teenagers. He then is assigned a new work partner, Keely Saliba.

Once in a house on fire

Once in a house on fire
  • Author(s): Andrea Ashworth
  • Location(s): Manchester, Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s, 1980s

Given her start in life, it is all the more remarkable that Andrea Ashworth should have turned out to be an Oxford graduate with such a compelling memoir under her belt. Her father died when she was five, her...

Quarterdeck (5)

Quarterdeck (5)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1790s

Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank – or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only...

Shelter

Shelter
  • Author(s): Frances Greenslade
  • Location(s): Northern Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/1970s

Maggie’s father is ‘Mr Safety’. He knows the woods of Duchess Creek in Northern Canada like the back of his hand, and he has taught his daughter how to survive, how to find and make a shelter in all...

Stargazer

Stargazer
  • Author(s): Laurie Petrou
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a fine line between admiration and envy. Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted...

The Glenwood Treasure

The Glenwood Treasure
  • Author(s): Kim Moritsugu
  • Location(s): Canada, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After her marriage breaks down, shy schoolteacher Blithe Morrison takes refuge for the summer with her parents in the affluent Toronto neighbourhood of Rose Park. Blithe’s return home evokes memories of her lifelong sibling war with Noel, her golden-boy...

The Little Shadows

The Little Shadows
  • Author(s): Marina Endicott
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

MARINA ENDICOTT PRESENTS THE THREE GRACEFUL AVERY GIRLS THE SISTER ACT TO TAKE VAUDEVILLE BY STORM STARRING: AURORA, CLOVER and BELLA As they set off on the road to fame and fortune, the Avery sisters join a cast of...

The Restoration of Emily

The Restoration of Emily
  • Author(s): Kim Moritsugu
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Architect and single mother Emily Harada has structured a well-ordered existence around her work restoring historic houses and the parenting of her teenage son, Jesse. But her carefully laid foundation cracks when she develops a nagging ache in her...

The Unlikeliest Backpacker

The Unlikeliest Backpacker
  • Author(s): Kathryn Barnes
  • Location(s): Washington State, California, Canada, Oregon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

You reach a certain age. You have a lifestyle many would envy. Still, something doesn’t feel right. Life has become routine. You sense there is more out there to experience and explore with an urge gnawing away inside to...

Unless

Unless
  • Author(s): Carol Shields
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads...

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