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Canada
  • Author(s): Richard Ford
  • Location(s): Canada, Great Falls, Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to modern

Canada is divided into three untitled parts. The first, concerning the crime and its immediate fallout, is set in the mid-to-late 1950s in Great Falls, the Montana town that Ford has used as a backdrop in some previous stories....

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
  • Author(s): Diana Stevan
  • 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...

Ravenscraig

Ravenscraig
  • Author(s): Sandi Krawchenko Altner
  • 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...

The Republic of Love

The Republic of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Shields
  • Location(s): Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There’s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has...

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