Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.
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Author:Bird, SarahSummary: - Author:Doctor, FarzanaSummary:
A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can’t forget. What’s it like when everyone’s dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is...
- Author:Kaufman, AndrewSummary:
All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to...
- Author:Thapa, ManjushreeSummary:
A beautiful story of strangers who shape each other's lives in fateful ways, All of Us in Our Own Lives delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid.Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer,...
- Author:Crichton, L. D.Summary:
Musically gifted seventeen-year-old Kyler and his new neighbor Lennon, who is crippled by her OCD, discover that the strength to survive, live, and love can be found in unexpected places.
- Author:Asher, Mark J.Summary:
Every dog deserves a forever home, and after being mistreated and given up several times, Wrigley has finally found his. The good-natured, smart mutt now spends his days as the house dog at SunRidge Assisted Living, comforting and...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of...
- Author:Uswak, SabrinaSummary:
A tragic accident, and two brothers are left to cope. Ben reads, obsesses. Charlie struggles between silence and anger. Unable to talk about what happened, a tension begins to build, pushing them apart. Then Dill arrives. Carrying only...
- Author:Orner, PeterSummary:
"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads-and writes-everywhere he...
- Author:Hébert, Anne, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane...
- Author:Pejvack, NasreenSummary:
Amity provides a window to the wreckage caused by war and conflict that leave behind destruction, displacement, pain and struggle resulting in life-long and irreparable psychological disorders. It is a story about the lives of...
- Author:Gunn, CarlaSummary:
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your...
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With selections from over 90 of Canada's most outstanding writers, this revised third edition of the extraordinarily popular Anthology of Canadian Literature in English showcases the remarkable diversity and vitality of English Canadian...
- Author:Bissonnette, Lise, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
Full of the mordant wit and unflinching observations we've come to admire in Bissonette's earlier, award-winning novels and stories, An Appropriate Place is as much a commentary on the triumphs and self-deception of the political...
- Author:Mafi, TaherehSummary:
In this searing look into the world of a Muslim family in the wake of 9/11, a child of immigrants forges a blurry identity, falls in love, and finds hope, all in the midst of a modern war.
- Author:Mathews, LawrenceSummary:
Sixty-two-year-old English professor Hugh Norman is getting ready to retire and just going through the motions. He's detached, irreverent, and quite pleased with himself. But then he learns of a long-lost friend's sudden death...
- Author:Murphy, ElizabethSummary:
Carl knows more than most how hard it can be to find one’s place in an imperfect world. Abandoned by his mother, scorned by his father, cuckolded by his wife, too tall, too naive, too unlucky, even the dogs are laughing behind his back...
- Author:Needham, Chris F.Summary:
Cut loose at the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel of a celebrated politician’s son is in fact Billy’s father’s own...
- Author:Davis, JaneSummary:
New fiction from an award-winning author If we are what we own, who are we when we own nothing? When you look in the mirror and ask the person staring back, "Who are you?," do you know the answer? At the age of 46, Anita Hall knows...
- Author:Saucier, JocelyneSummary:
Away From Hermeets Strangers on a Trainin this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained DownAfter And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-...
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