For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
Literary
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Auteur:Lazurko, AnneSommaire: - Auteur:Ohlin, AlixSommaire:
Thirteen glittering, surprising, and darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin. In the mordantly funny 'Money, Geography, Youth,' Vanessa arrives home...
- Auteur:Vryenhoek, LeslieSommaire:
**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER****NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS WINNER, SUSPENSE****NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS FICTION LONGLIST**In 1977, a young woman swipes a duffel bag of drug money and flees her bad-news boyfriend,...
- Auteur:Stintzi, John ElizabethSommaire:
Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalistA brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother...
- Auteur:Fuller, ClaireSommaire:
From bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What...
- Auteur:Béchard, Deni EllisSommaire:
La deuxième fois qu'Andrew voit Hugh, son demi-frère, c'est à l'enterrement de leur père. Si Andrew accorde peu d'intérêt à l'homme auprès duquel il a grandi, Hugh, lui, a développé une fascination pour cet être...
- Auteur:Kalteis, DietrichSommaire:
Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He's reckless, she's naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank, setting off a series of events that quickly spin out of their control Under an Outlaw Moon is based on...
- Auteur:Krueger, LesleySommaire:
A richly atmospheric portrait of women's agency and the timelessness of love, Time Squared explores the enduring roles of rights, responsibility, and devotion throughout history The game will change when you remember who you are Robin...
- Auteur:Martin, SamuelSommaire:
This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of others in the community or mourning the...
- Auteur:O'Loughlin, EdSommaire:
From the Prologue: Wonderland. The Lions Gate suspension bridge joins central Vancouver to the North Shore and the mountains beyond. It's a little over one mile long. Two hundred feet beneath it are the First Narrows, where the...
- Auteur:Mayr, MattSommaire:
As a third generation logger, a life in the bush is all Joe Adler has ever known. He works, he hunts; he provides. But when a man dies on his watch, and his wife abandons their young family for writing school in Toronto, Joe must face...
- Auteur:Courtemanche, GilSommaire:
Claude Tremblay works as a political analyst at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But when the Congolese warlord Kabanga, accused of crimes against humanity, is released from trial due to a procedural error, Claude resigns...
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Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:"Lib Wright, a young English nurse trained by legendary Florence Nightingale, arrives in an impoverished Irish village with a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for four months. With...
- Auteur:Perreault, AnnieSommaire:
While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the...
- Auteur:Sooley, JillSommaire:
Prissy Montgomery goes to great lengths to avoid having sex with her husband, Howie. So when he confesses to having an affair, and requests a divorce, she shouldn’t be all that surprised. With her fourteen-year-old son in tow she leaves...
- Auteur:D'Izzia, GuglielmoSommaire:
De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy. While en route, the train he's on...
- Auteur:Watada, TerrySommaire:
In 1940s Vancouver the Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building. The RCMP are rounding up 'suspicious' young men, fishing boats and property are being seized, and internment camps are only months away....
- Auteur:Conlin, Christy AnnSommaire:
'Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the...
- Auteur:Mullally, ShannonSommaire:
The Second Detective is a deliriously entertaining reimagining of the hard-boiled detective novel, featuring a mysterious narrator, a missing husband, and a lascivious mountain goat with interspecies interests.
- Auteur:Mason, Paul NicholasSommaire:
Andrew and his fiancée, Hannah, are on board a whale-watching boat in the Bay of Fundy when the vessel is hit by a rogue wave. Thirty-eight people are rescued by the coast guard, but Hannah is not one of them, and she is subsequently...
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