Blasted is a story of Ruby Jones, an irreverent, exuberant, and troubled woman who lurches between love affairs and cities. The narrative shifts between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Story, KateSummary: - Author:Bush, CatherineSummary:
"For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush. The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
When Josh Ellroy, left-winger for the Kamloops Blazers, and his dad find more than a dozen dead cattle on the family ranch, Josh has some serious decisions to make. On one hand, the Western Hockey League playoffs are ahead, plus a...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David’s only...
- Author:Benvie, RobSummary:
A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the next stage in a secretive covenant. A renowned poet retraces her...
- Author:Pierre, ÉmelineSummary:
Les nouvelles de ce recueil nous transportent au Québec, en Afrique et au cœur des Antilles, derrière le décor exotique et trompeur des hôtels et des plages. Coupeur de canne ou ouvrière en Guadeloupe, travailleur clandestin en...
- Author:Goulet, SylvainSummary:
Sylvain Goulet est l’auteur de Susciter une réflexion qui t’appartienne, un livre de réflexion personnelle, et de huit romans, toujours sous le thème de l’inspiration. Le jeune Nathaniel, 16 ans, qui traverse une période d’anxiété, en...
- Author:Berry, MichelleSummary:
Welcome to Blind Crescent, where everyone is watching, but nobody sees a thing. In this fictitious slice of suburban life, Michelle Berry peels back the pretensions of manicured lawns and the rictus smiles of friendly neighbours. With a...
- Author:Ross, Mary KaySummary:
Having lost her husband through divorce, and her daughter who has left home to go to university, Claire, at midlife, finds herself bereft; she is aging and she feels she has never really been sufficiently engaged in her own life. A...
- Author:Carter, ScottSummary:
Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck...
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
- Author:Miall, LaurenceSummary:
When his parents' car is hit by a train, Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral, wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while all others around him grieve, Luke remains...
- Author:Coupal, DenisSummary:
Tom 'Brooder' Doran, Deputy Chief of the Police in Beaufort, Quebec, has his hands full when financier Paul Carignan is struck by a stray bullet. Tom investigates but collides with the unwillingness of town leaders to...
- Author:Coupal, DenisSummary:
A man is shot by a hunter in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and his sons want justice.
- Author:Wishinsky, FriedaSummary:
It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "...
- Author:Sanderson, Douglas, Norris, J. F.Summary:
"It's been a long time now, nearly two years since we met at that party." "Yeah," Tessie said bitterly, "and nearly five years since I was a clever little girl who thought she'd found a way to make a hundred dollars. There was only...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray...
- Author:Sapergia, BarbaraSummary:
The time is World War I, and Canadian soldiers are proving their worth in the trenches of Europe. But on the home front, Ukrainian Canadians are being sent to internment camps, "Canada's gulag". Blood and Salt is about this forgotten...
- Author:Nelson, ColleenSummary:
A Winnipeg Free Press Bestseller! • In the Margins Book Award, Top Ten Selection • CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2017) Selection Close as brothers, Jakub’s and Lincoln’s lives diverge when Jakub gets a private school...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong. At the height of the AIDS crisis in the early nineties, a close friend of Crang’s, Alex Corcoran, loses his...
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