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...
Canadian fiction
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Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary: - 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2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best First Novel — Shortlisted 2014 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner It’s too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock...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...
- 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...
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