The Walking Man begins in the deserts of Jordan and explores a year in the life of the main character - someone very similar to the author - and his attempts to make sense of a tumultuous year. Based on many of the author's experiences...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Dore, PaulSummary: - Author:Woods, JaneSummary:
A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year. Does faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania? Is heavenly forgiveness possible this side...
- Author:Robertson, JohnSummary:
By the latter half of the third decade of the twenty-first century AD, ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate change, humankind has begun to make meaningful progress in curtailing its greenhouse gas emissions. Will it be enough...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
Joanne's sunny world is shattered when she learns that her daughter has found the corpse of a young woman in the alley near her store, and her son's girlfriend is drowned in a lake in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley...
- Author:Nowlan, AldenSummary:
In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores. Family relationships, sexual confusions, and the...
- Author:Bennett, HollySummary:
Luaine is daughter to the greatest of Irish warriors, the legendary Cuchulainn. Although known throughout Ireland as the most fearsome of killers, to Luaine he is a loving playful father who amuses her with his exciting tales and...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor...
- Author:Kaan, MichaelSummary:
Shortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for Fiction. The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel A CBC Bookie Award: Mystery and Thriller, Finalist A Quill & Quire Book of the Year An Amazon.ca Editors’ Pick In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Get the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel — The Dragon Head of Hong Kong. In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish...
- Author:Mac, CarrieSummary:
Colby Wyatt has had a rough year. Her dad disappeared, she doesn’t have a place to live, and she’s addicted to meth. Thankfully, her best friend Gigi’s grandma takes her in, and Colby helps out with the family business, selling stolen...
- Author:Citra, BeckySummary:
Tory has been bumped from foster home to foster home for most of her nine years. Living with yet another new family, this time on a horse ranch for the summer, she falls in love with Lucky, the friendly pony she is allowed to ride. A...
- Author:Reid, DonaldaSummary:
It’s the 1960s – the time for equal rights, peace, and love. But for Ellen Manery, it’s the time to work hard and finish high school early. She’d rather be helping out at the university’s medical lab than listening to rock and roll and...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never...
- Author:MacDonald, Ann-MarieSummary:
“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.”
The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-...
- Author:Saso, EmilySummary:
It’s summer in Toronto, and the snow and ice are relentless. Too bad no one but Avery can see it.
Avery Gauthier can’t get far enough away from her past: the death of her beloved father, the abuse she suffered as a teen, and the...
- Author:Ward, DonaldSummary:
Donald Ward’s stories are written in a straight-ahead narrative style that offers conceptual and philosophical underpinnings. Despite this intentional layering, he maintains the kind of economy of description and simplicity of...
- Author:Carew, D. B.Summary:
After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young man who falls on the extreme end of the...
- Author:Forrest, C.B.Summary:
Toronto at the close of 1999. It is a time of change, but Detective Charlie McKelvey’s life is stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son, Gavin. As his wife focuses on healing, McKelvey is burdened with guilt for his role in...
- Author:Cullen, Nancy JoSummary:
Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada's National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of...
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