Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth's magnum opus Clyde Fans, two decades in the making, appeared on twenty best of 2019 lists, including those from The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, and was nominated for an...
Canadian fiction
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Author:SethSummary: - Author:Gleeson, JohnSummary:
After more than thirty years as the muckraking publisher of the Coast Chronicle on the B.C. shoreline, Albert Sloan made plenty of enemies. But when his body is found hanging in an apple grove off Settlers Road, the Mounties waste no...
- Author:Devlin, A. J.Summary:
Cobra Clutch is a murder mystery set in the world of independent pro-wrestling. The protagonist, "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, is a former pro-wrestling star who left the industry due to a tragedy, just as his career was taking off....
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source...
- Author:Grant, VickiSummary:
Dan appréhende l'ennuyeuse sortie scolaire dans une ferme historique éloignée. Pas tant à cause du fumier que du fait que le fermier élève des porcs. Les porcs s'appellent aussi des cochons et le nom de famille de Dan est Cauchon. Déjà...
- Author:Hage, RawiSummary:
Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant...
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's mysterious...
- Author:Staunton, TedSummary:
When his brother Bunny vanishes from the Toronto City Hall skating rink, Spencer, a budding filmmaker, finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers: kidnapping, terrorists, intrigue, a missing document, a world-famous pop...
- Author:Lubrin, CanisiaSummary:
Eagerly awaited debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired young writers. A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the "Code Noir," that once governed Black lives. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction...
- Author:Trépanier, Marie-LyneSummary:
Collection regroupant deux romans historiques. Fille de roi Fille du roi et Ententes à l'anglaise. Fille de roi Fille du roi : ce roman d'amour et d'aventure historique nous ramène au temps de la colonie, où les filles à marier...
- Author:Roy, SuzanneSummary:
Depuis la mort de sa petite fille, Marianne n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Sa vie si parfaite a volé en éclat, emportant avec elle le merveilleux couple qu'elle formait avec Charles. Depuis, plus rien ne la...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles. Along with him went Laura, his childhood sweetheart...
- Author:Brett, AlexSummary:
Short-listed for the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel A Canadian astronomer commits suicide on a desolate mountain peak in Hawaii, and Morgan O'Brien is sent to the observatory to find his missing data. But it seems she...
- Author:Greenaway, R.M.Summary:
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best First Novel — Shortlisted 2014 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner It’s too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
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...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
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...
- 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...
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