Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary: - Author:Holler, Sue FarrellSummary:
A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta.
- Author:Belgue, NancySummary:
Colette Faizal isn't superstitious, so she doesn't worry when a fortune-teller advises Colette's mother to "watch for the unexpected." But when her father announces he is going back to Iran, her mother is hurt in a car accident and...
- Author:Ouellette-Berkhout, Denise, Therrien, Joanne, Girardin, BrigitteSummary:
À la fin des années 50, dans la petite ville canadienne de Spring Bay, Angèle étouffe. Un jour, son existence bascule lorsqu’un patient lui offre un poste d’infirmière dans une luxueuse résidence américaine. L’ambition et le désir d’...
- Author:Gosselin, MelSummary:
Roman Steampunk (Gaslamp fantasy) Le 29 août 1907, le pont de Kébek s'écroule. Parmi les victimes, Francis Cudworth, le frère aîné de Jacqueline. Pour elle, ce n'était pas un accident... On a voulu assassiner son frère. Une pharmacienne...
- Author:Morrison, DougSummary:
Back in Canada after a harrowing vacation gone wrong, Michael Barrett tries to put all thought of Ukraine and his mysterious captor turned friend, Dmitri, from his mind. This would be a little easier to do if a million dollars had not...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminder that language, self and reality are...
- Author:Zorn, AliceSummary:
A novel about Mina, a woman in Montreal who has Down Syndrome. Mina lives alone, with the support of her older brother Bruno, who lives nearby; in her spare time, Mina embroiders. One day in the park, Mina meets Iris, a designer who...
- Author:Somerset, A.J.Summary:
Once a celebrated war photographer, Lucas Zane is burnt out after covering twenty years of war. Drunk, hallucinatory, all ambition fled, Zane earns the rent working for an impresario of shoestring pornographic movies. Here he encounters...
- Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:
The Judy Garland of the future tells it like she sees it
The year is 2050, and, contrary to popular belief, Judy Garland did not die in 1969. At the grand old age of 138, she’s re–embraced her real name, Frances Gumm;...
- Author:Reid, GaylaSummary:
In England in the spring of 1939, Clancy, an Australian nurse, waits with her infant daughter for news of her lover, who was a volunteer with the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. As she waits, Clancy shares with her...
- Author:Cooper, CherylSummary:
In Come Looking for Me, a mysterious young English woman named Emily risks a crossing of the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for the promise of a new adventure in Canada. But she never arrives. Captured by Captain Trevelyan, a man as...
- Author:Grant, JessicaSummary:
Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she...
- Author:Denman, K.L.Summary:
Julie survived a horrific car accident, but she has no memory of the event or the boyfriend who was with her in the car. He disappeared, and she is diagnosed with PTSD. Her doctor recommends a therapy animal, and Julie chooses to get a...
- Author:Ross, JeffSummary:
Rob wants to be a DJ – more than anything. And when his older brother Adam lands him a gig at a local all-ages club filling in for DJ Sly, Rob is ecstatic. This could be his big break, and when he finds out that the girl of his dreams...
- Author:vom Scheidt, F.W.Summary:
How much money is too much? And how fast is too fast in life? Investment star Paris Smith steps onto the top rungs of the corporate ladder, only to discover he is caught between his need for fulfillment and his need for understanding,...
- Author:Mak, StarkieSummary:
With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid to the children’s books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak’s...
- Author:Leipciger, SarahSummary:
A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time. On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does...
- Author:Guénette, DeniseSummary:
Les monologues de Denise Guénette mettent en scène des personnages d’une telle vraisemblance qu’on a l’impression de les connaître depuis toujours : un p’tit déluré qui veut faire sa propre réforme scolaire ; une infirmière qui est au...
- Author:Belzile, CarmenSummary:
Anne Savoie a toujours eu honte de ses origines modestes. Avec David, son grand amour, elle réalise son rêve: travailler dans l’entreprise de sa belle-famille, gravir les échelons de la société, goûter enfin au luxe et au succès. Puis,...
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