Paul Prescot’s desire to catalogue and comprehend the aboriginal rock paintings of the Canadian Shield is told through the eyes of the woman he loves, and who, for her own reasons, accompanies him on his travels to the deep north. Her...
Literary
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Auteur:Unwin, PeterSommaire: - Auteur:Miller, JohnSommaire:
Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica. Danni grew up Jewish in an affluent neighbourhood...
- Auteur:Lazurko, AnneSommaire:
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...
- 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:Baudot, LaureSommaire:
Laure Baudot's This One Because of the Dead is a collection of stories about the power of what goes unsaid – of the truths people keep hidden from each other, which guide their relationships and their decisions in unexpected ways....
- 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:Gom, LeonaSommaire:
The Y Chromosome challenges the reader to meet an all-woman society of the future. The few remaining men live in hiding. When one of these men is discovered, the resulting conflict threatens both worlds.
The futurist society was...
- 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...
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