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  • Author:
    Oza, Janika
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    INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family...

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    Adderson, Caroline
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    Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the Holocaust. When Alison notices a tattoo on...

  • Author:
    Charles, Rie
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    Starting a new life after the death of her mother, Nora learns how to be strong. Are there wounds too deep to heal, pains too sharp to share? And if a family survives by cutting the ties that bind them, can they ever be whole again?...

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    Casselman, Grace
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    An expert at fierce scowls and unpleasant grimaces, twelve-year-old Kaitlin Anderson presents a tough face to the world, usually hiding her quirky, imaginative nature. Still dealing with the loss of her mother to cancer, Kaitlin is less...

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    Delaney, Trynne
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    Ghosts aren't the only thing that can haunt a house. Trynne Delaney's debut novel explores the insidious legacies of violence and oppression--and how Black, queer love and resistance can disrupt them. With her dad's incarceration,...

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    Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy Henry
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    With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rythmic text, this sturdy board book introduces the alphabet using iconic imagery of the West Coast, creating a book that will be...

  • Author:
    Laurence, Margaret
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    In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.

    Trapped in a milieu of deceit...

  • Author:
    Freedman, Ariela
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    A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the...

  • Author:
    Calder, Susan
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    The 1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War rages overseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in a doctor's office to support her children and her brother, a wounded veteran. One...

  • Author:
    Arthurson, Wayne
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    Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to...

  • Author:
    Heffernan, Colleen
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    Everything changes when Hattie Tamblyn's much-adored older brother, Will, enlists in the Canadian army in 1916 and is sent to fight in France. Hattie lives for Will's letters from the front, but her mother retreats into depression, her...

  • Author:
    Frédérick Durand
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    Dans ce recueil de nouvelles noires et insolites, vous rencontrerez des personnages en proie aux ombres. Fantasmées, réelles, provoquées, imprévues, amicales ou inquiétantes, elles n'en sont pas moins cachées quelques part,...

  • Author:
    Saint-Pierre, Annette
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    Grâce à sa chaussure à double semelle, Sylvia pourra enfin prendre de l’assurance et devenir une jeune fille épanouie. La belle Hélène sera toujours là pour lui rappeler son handicap, mais ne pourra miner la générosité et le courage de...

  • Author:
    Scali, Dominique
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    New Babylon n'existe pas. Mais s'il fallait crâeer cette ville, les duels y seraient permis et il n'y aurait pas d'autre loi que celle interdisant les hommes de loi. On y aurait constamment le souffle coupâe, áa cause des paysages, et...

  • Author:
    Sorensen, Sue
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    Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...

  • Author:
    Whishaw, Iona
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    Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December. But when she...

  • Author:
    Whishaw, Iona
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    A Lethal Lesson(#8). Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in...

  • Author:
    McFetridge, John
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    Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural

    Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three...

  • Author:
    Walsh, Alice
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    Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan. Relocating to North America, their flight falls on the fateful morning of 9/11. After the terrorist attack on the...

  • Author:
    Gallaher, Bill
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    “The Black Barber of Barkerville,” as Wellington Delaney Moses was known, came to British Columbia from San Francisco, looking for a new home and a place of peace. He was among the first black people to arrive in B.C., hoping that the...

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