A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection! Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest of...
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Author:Saucier, Jocelyne, Mullins, RhondaSummary: - Author:Hale, AmandaSummary:
Cuba is the place where the grandchildren of peasants become consultant surgeons, but also the place where necessity as the mother of invention is put into extreme practise. In Havana, the buildings like the peoples’ dreams, are...
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an...
- Author:Hébert, AnneSummary:
This attractive trade paperback collection of Anne Hebert's later novels includes some of the most accomplished and best loved fiction of her more than sixty-year career, and features an introduction by her dear friend and fellow...
- Author:Mosionier, BeatriceSummary:
Life stories of two Métis sisters who suffer the breakdown of family relations and the injustices of the social services system. Culleton has made April Raintree the spokesperson for the Métis. April and her younger sister Cheryl, when...
- Author:Booker, BrianSummary:
"A brilliant debut."-CHARLES BAXTER, author of The Soul Thief and There's Something I Want You to Do The suspense creeps in and takes hold in seven stories about troubled characters grappling with rare illnesses, menacing...
- Author:Valiquette, FranceSummary:
Quelques jours avant leur voyage en Arizona, Peter rompt sa relation avec Mercedes sans explications. Elle décide de se rendre seule dans la réserve des Navajos, ce grand peuple qui a failli être exterminé durant la conquête du sud-...
- Author:Mount, NickSummary:
In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many...
- Author:Bowers, CedarSummary:
What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Born and raised on a remote British Columbia...
- Author:Olsson, LindaSummary:
Deeply forlorn following the devastating loss of her fiancé, young New Zealand writer Veronika resettles alone in a quaint Swedish village. Her arrival is quietly observed by Astrid, an elderly, reclusive neighbor, whose companionship...
- Author:Altrows, RonaSummary:
Alarmed that Canada Post keeps losing money, Ariadne Jensen, a woman in her fifties, pitches the CEO with a scheme to save the corporation: she will get people to start writing and mailing letters again. As an inspiration to others,...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900...
- Author:Galchen, RivkaSummary:
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo searches for his real wife.
- Author:Soucy, Gaétan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends....
- Author:Queyras, SinaSummary:
A finalist for the 36th annual Amazon.ca First Novel Award! The Combals are not unacquainted with death: they have never quite recovered from the loss of one of them in childhood. And now, on Valentine's Day, they are losing another....
- Author:Gagnon, HélèneSummary:
David, l'intellectuel, Benoît, le rêveur, Éric, le fonceur, et Daniel, le rebelle, ont toujours eu une vie privilégiée. Ces quatre frères ont grandi dans la douceur d'un fastueux manoir à Sainte-Adèle, sous la tutelle...
- Author:Funk, WesSummary:
Sam Brown is a shy, nineteen-year-old farm kid fresh out of cooking school. Determined to make a life for himself in the city, he lands a job in a busy downtown Saskatoon diner. There, he meets Slash, the restaurant's gruff middle-aged...
- Author:Chang, Sung-sheng, Carver, Ann C.Summary:
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of 14 writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives. It is filled with "unexpected...
- Author:Tefs, WayneSummary:
Harlan always knew he was special, that he was different from other folk. He figured he'd found his calling when he joined the carnival. People were drawn to the sound of his voice from far and wide, even in the middle of the dried-up...
- Author:Weinzweig, HelenSummary:
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence...
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