Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject,...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Hodd, ThomasSummary: - Author:Sawai, GloriaSummary:
In her stunning, Governor-General's-Award-winning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins.
In her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines...
- Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:
"A Song from Faraway is a collection of stories that address masculinity, identity, the impact of war, and fatherhood"--
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
In the fifth book of the series that the Globe and Mail calls "terrific," Lane Winslow investigates the murder of an unidentified man she found adrift in a boat near King's Cove. Lane Winslow is enjoying a perfect, sunny...
- Author:Desjardins, IndiaSummary:
A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point ... the terrible decor in the hospital,...
- Author:Doran, GerardSummary:
John Whelan, champion oarsman, has all but given up on competitive rowing. On the cusp of forty, the Outer Cove fisherman is trying to accept that his time as a rower has passed. His wife agrees, telling him, “Breaking your back down on...
- Author:Hay, ElizabethSummary:
From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious...
- Author:Morgan-Cole, TrudySummary:
When a devastating fire sweeps through St. John's, Newfoundland, in the summer of 1892, nineteen-year-old Lily Hunt hopes it's the beginning of a new life that will transform her from a dutiful daughter to a crusader, a suffragist, and...
- Author:Hébert, AnneSummary:
This magnificent and final novel from Anne Hebert completes an internationally acclaimed literary oeuvre that is fearless in its explorations of the dark and violent side of human passion. Rose-Alba Almevida, her husband Pedro, and her...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
For more than thirty years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese-Canadian heritage in award-winning books for young readers as well as adult non-fiction. Here, in his first work of fiction for adults, he takes us on a harrowing...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Witches are hated in Württemberg, Germany, in the eighteenth century. It’s not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who’s too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and...
- Author:Balzamo, PatrickSummary:
A Tale of Beauty is the story of five young women who have banded together as the Ugly Sisterhood. Chastity, a devout Catholic, has made a mission of saving her brother from a dissolute lifestyle. Diana is isolated by her own impossible...
- Author:Montgomery, L.M., Lefebvre, BenjaminSummary:
No amount of drama between the Dark and Penhallow families can prepare them for what follows when Aunt Becky bequeaths her prized heirloom jug - the owner to be revealed in one year's time. The intermarriages, and resulting...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
One cold day in 1929, a tsunami strikes the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland and suddenly twelve-year-old Murphy is doing a man's work, saving lives and caring for the people he loves.
Murphy wants to grow up fast and be a...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a...
- Author:Trites, LesleySummary:
A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter’s birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat...
- Author:Schultz Nicholson, LornaSummary:
Stuart can run like the wind. It's a skill that has come in handy for him all his life. Born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder, Stuart has learned to run away from all kinds trouble -- at least, if he can recognize it. Sometimes it's...
- Author:Musial, CharlotteSummary:
A Touch of Elegance is a lavish collection of heart-warming, witty, sometimes mystical tales of love and loss, betrayal and redemption…and other angst-ridden issues of the human condition. Take young Willow, for instance, whose elegant...
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
Murder casts a dark shadow over Canada's Sunshine Coast in this Edgar Award-winning crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Gordon Murphy has a Midas touch for business, but he's all...
- Author:Lawson, MarySummary:
A Town Called Solace, the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade, opens on a family in crisis. Sixteen-year-old Rose is missing. Angry and rebellious, she had a row with her mother,...
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