This debut collection of stories — featuring a talk-show host and her talking hand, a women’s activity group that writes to prisoners, and a poncho-making nudist — is as unique as it is compelling. Set in their own melodramatic worlds,...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Balzer, DavidSummary: - Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:
It’s 1842. 14-year-old Jennie Lawrence has been found guilty of stealing, and finds herself aboard one of the few women-only convict ships destined for Australia.
Jennie had been desperate – and, as she gets to know the other...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
- Author:Borkowski, AndrewSummary:
You will never know what really happened to Lech or any of us. We mean nothing by it, darling. It is a silent agreement we all have with ourselves, that nothing will ever make us prisoners again, not even memory.'#x9D; Set...
- Author:Kingsmill, Suzanne F.Summary:
Zoologist sleuth Cordi O’Callaghan is scrambling to save her life, or at least her career, in this ebook bundle of all three Cordi O’Callaghan mysteries, including the newest novel, Dying for Murder. From the Canadian wilderness, to an...
- Author:Kingsmill, Suzanne F.Summary:
Suzanne Kingsmill’s acclaimed murder mysteries, starring quirky zoologist-turned-sleuth Cordi O’Callaghan, is back and better than ever. This special bundle gathers all four books in one. Crazy Dead Struggling to escape the sticky...
- Author:Diersch, Sandra, London, GerriSummary:
Tu aimes les témoignages? Tu adoreras ce livre! C’est un roman basé sur une histoire vraie. Voir ainsi la tête de sa mère si fragile et sans protection fut déstabilisant pour Corinne. Sans ses cheveux, elle ne ressemblait plus à sa mère...
- Author:Ferris, GloriaSummary:
This two-book bundle gathers both novels of Gloria Ferris’s darkly comic mystery series, starring the inimitable Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall and her boyfriend, fellow sleuth, and often reluctant accomplice Neil Redfern. Includes: A Shroud...
- Author:Easton, DonSummary:
In his seventh appearance, undercover agent Jack Taggart is forced to play a risky game, making a deal with one devil to bring down another. Corporate Asset takes undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime...
- Author:D. Lafond, MarjorieSummary:
Une irrépressible attirance... une passion sous influence Après des années de tourmente, de folies et d'excès à Montréal, Raphaëlle Lacroix est revenue s'installer à Saint-Sauveur, sa ville natale, où elle a...
- Author:Ferris, GloriaSummary:
2010 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner Bliss’s life becomes anything but blissful when she encounters the world of rural pot cultivation. From country club to trailer park … Swindled out of a fair...
- Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:
Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore...
- Author:Gordon, SpencerSummary:
Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book! An admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three-thousand word sentence in defence of his passion. Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal, stupefying...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular the formidable Maureen Poole. Based on...
- Author:Lawson, JulieSummary:
Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is nothing like she'd expected. Her older cousins tease "the city kid" mercilessly, when they're not ignoring her altogether. She often finds herself left to...
- Author:McDowell, Pamela, Charko, KasiaSummary:
When Cricket McKay and her best friend, Shilo, discover that a cougar has been seen in the town of Waterton, they are thrilled that school closes for a few days as a precaution. The townspeople are worried though. They want the cougar...
- Author:Leach, SaraSummary:
Twelve-year-old Tabitha is less than thrilled when her parents send her on a hiking trip with her cousins, Ashley and Cedar, and her Aunt Tess. For one thing, she's not much of a hiker. And she's pretty sure her cousins hate her. But...
- Author:Languedoc, ClaudetteSummary:
In August 1947, Mary Brock travelled to Northwestern Ontario to start a teaching job at an Indian residential school where she doesn't give up buoyed by her ideals and pragmatism.
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal's...
- Author:Burn, K. C.Summary:
Sequel to 'Cop Out' Detective Ivan Bekker has hit rock bottom. Not only is he recovering from a bad breakup with a cheating boyfriend, he’s also involved in a drug bust gone bad. Ivan had to kill a man, and his friend was shot and is...
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