Bridge Retakes, the debut novel by Angela Lopes, is a whirlwind millennial tale of love and family and the distances that people will (or won't) go to secure what they want. A Bahian man and a Brazilian-Canadian woman meet on an online...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Lopes, AngelaSummary: - Author:Adams, MicheleSummary:
In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied forth in a language that is precise,...
- Author:Loughead, DebSummary:
Aline hides under the hay when her father takes her to school in their horse-drawn sled. She's embarrassed that her mother raises chickens in their yard, and doesn't want her school friends to find out that their family has...
- Author:Carpenter, J.D.Summary:
When racehorse trainer Delbert "Shorty" Rogers is found dead in a stall at Caledonia Downs, Homicide Detective Campbell Young is drawn into the investigation. Add to the mix a lottery winner, an Internet mogul, a reclusive...
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Maud Lewis is a folk art legend who persevered through stigma, poverty, and disability to create beautiful and lasting pieces of art. Brighten the Corner Where You Are brings illumination to Maud's life.
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a polyglot city where cultures collide and converge, where money -- and sometimes justice -- is no object, where in less than two...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a polyglot city where cultures collide and converge, where money -- and sometimes justice -- is no object, where in less than two...
- Author:Metcalfe, ZackSummary:
Two men are pulled from their places in time and discarded into a strange future, where sand abounds and sorrow is universal, and here they exercise supernatural talents to shape a dying world. One gives birth to empire, exploiting the...
- Author:McGrath, WendySummary:
Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa. Budding with creativity that her working-class parents...
- Author:Harvey-Fitzhenry, AlyxandraSummary:
With purple hair and '90s retro clothes, Ash Perrault is a modern-day Cinderella. She has a new stepmother, annoying stepsisters and a rocky relationship with the school prince. But she has a problem Cinderella didn't have - a dangerous...
- Author:Wilson, John, Ashby, MarkSummary:
Steve is looking forward to a relaxing (and perhaps romantic) time under the Spanish sun with his friend, Laia. But when an email from his brother DJ arrives, implicating their grandfather in shadowy international plots involving...
- Author:McMurchy-Barber, GinaSummary:
A vandalized burial in an abandoned pioneer cemetery brings 12-year-old Peggy Henderson and her elderly archaeologist friend Eddy to Golden, British Columbia, to excavate. The town dates back to the 1880s when most of the citizens were...
- Author:Dinsdale, ChristopherSummary:
Angry at missing a week of summer video game entertainment, Jesse, a twelve-year-old boy of European/Native American descent, grudgingly follows through with his deceased father’s request that he join his Uncle Matthew and cousin Jason...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
In 1922, as returned soldiers clear the land they were given on Vancouver Island, the spectre of the First World War lingers in everyone's mind. Johanna Seyerstead waits for her missing-in-action husband to return; Wyatt Taylor has...
- Author:Baxter, Jean RaeSummary:
Broken Trail is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy, the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has been captured and adopted by the Oneida people. Striving to find his vision oki that will guide him in his quest to become a warrior,...
- Author:Bruno JobinSummary:
Après trente-deux ans de flirt avec la médiocrité, Jean-Marc Morel remporte le gros lot à la loterie du malheur. Congédié de l'usine, largué par sa femme, privé de son fils, abandonné par ses proches, dépossédé de ses...
- Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary:
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and...
- Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:
Brother Dumb is the memoir of a reclusive American literary icon. Brother Dumb is a how-to manual for meaningful critical engagement with the real world. Brother Dumb is a celebration of innocence, youth, and...
- Author:Spottiswoode, Amanda, March, MollySummary:
The year is 1936, and seven children (aged eight to sixteen) are sprung from their boarding schools in England to the coast of British Columbia to embark on a summer sailing adventure like no other. On the way, they discover the true...
- Author:Smith, JeffersonSummary:
They’re lazy. They’re unskilled. And now the fate of the Kingdom is in their hands. Tam, Kern and Merrik are all failing at life: a homeless thief, a disgraced baker’s apprentice and an incompetent smith. But witnessing a strange ritual...
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