A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Freedman, ArielaSummary: - Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to...
- Author:Heffernan, ColleenSummary:
Everything changes when Hattie Tamblyn's much-adored older brother, Will, enlists in the Canadian army in 1916 and is sent to fight in France. Hattie lives for Will's letters from the front, but her mother retreats into depression, her...
- Author:Frédérick DurandSummary:
Dans ce recueil de nouvelles noires et insolites, vous rencontrerez des personnages en proie aux ombres. Fantasmées, réelles, provoquées, imprévues, amicales ou inquiétantes, elles n'en sont pas moins cachées quelques part,...
- Author:Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSummary:
Grâce à sa chaussure à double semelle, Sylvia pourra enfin prendre de l’assurance et devenir une jeune fille épanouie. La belle Hélène sera toujours là pour lui rappeler son handicap, mais ne pourra miner la générosité et le courage de...
- Author:Scali, DominiqueSummary:
New Babylon n'existe pas. Mais s'il fallait crâeer cette ville, les duels y seraient permis et il n'y aurait pas d'autre loi que celle interdisant les hommes de loi. On y aurait constamment le souffle coupâe, áa cause des paysages, et...
- Author:Sorensen, SueSummary:
Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December. But when she...
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
A Lethal Lesson(#8). Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in...
- Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural
Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three...
- Author:Walsh, AliceSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan. Relocating to North America, their flight falls on the fateful morning of 9/11. After the terrorist attack on the...
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
“The Black Barber of Barkerville,” as Wellington Delaney Moses was known, came to British Columbia from San Francisco, looking for a new home and a place of peace. He was among the first black people to arrive in B.C., hoping that the...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
Short-listed for the 2005 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Declan O'Malley came to the coast of British Columbia because it was as far away from Ireland as he could possibly go. Haunted by memories of his family's death at the...
- Author:Bartleman, JamesSummary:
A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada’s Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog...
- Author:Carley, RodSummary:
Will Crosswell’s decision to pursue acting shattered his father’s dream of him being a useful adult. When we first meet the young Will he is a wolf in wolf’s clothing. But in the ensuing years, from relationships to the theatre, his...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
Plots, intrigue and love against the backdrop of imperial China. This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscape of mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture,...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the...
- Author:Hume, Stephen EatonSummary:
Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie's father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother's death, and soon has to deal with his own...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
An absorbing account of Monica Gall's education in London as a singer and as a human being, this novel is comic in the true sense, vivid and frequently moving.
- Author:Herbert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Poppy isn't very pleased. Her father is a pain. And the worst of it is that she is stuck with him for a whole weekend while her mother and brother are away. Suddenly, the monster on the cereal box miraculously comes to life. He is...
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