Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a...
General fiction
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Author:Reid, BrandonSummary: - Author:Goodman, JoannaSummary:
When Arabella Slominski Boot catches her loutish husband in bed with her best friend, she packs up, takes her son Kenny and drives to Louisiana to see her mother. Surrounded by eccentric characters, like a Harley-Davidson riding palm...
- Author:Royal, GillesSummary:
Ancien enquêteur recyclé en détective privé, Christian Lemieux est un homme solitaire, plutôt asocial et certainement déçu par l’amour. Il regarde la vie passer en observateur désabusé. Jusqu’au jour où un homme gravement malade...
- Author:Mabanckou, AlainSummary:
Le héros de Black Bazar est un dandy africain de notre temps, amoureux des cols italiens et des chaussures Weston, qui découvre sa vocation d'écrivain au détour d'un chagrin d'amour. Naviguant entre complainte et dérision, il...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. It's old money versus new money, and neither family seems willing to compromise. Will the tension between...
- Author:Carter, ScottSummary:
Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck...
- Author:Saramago, JoséSummary:
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is...
- Author:Bathory, ChrisSummary:
Trouble finds rookie coroner Kate Grayson, both on the job and off. Her first important death investigation centers around the puzzling case of a woman found mutilated on a beach. In a case marked by contradictions and confusion, it is...
- Author:Curran, OisínSummary:
Maine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader's authority teeters as his followers come to realize they've been exploited for too long. To make matters worse, the eleven-year-old son of one...
- Author:Stewart, ElizabethSummary:
Coltan, or “blue gold,” is a rare mineral used in making cell phones and computers. Across continents, the lives of three teen girls are affected by the “blue gold” trade. Sylvie’s family had to flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
- Author:Warwaruk, LarrySummary:
Bone Coulee: In old age, Mac Chorniak is burdened by the memory of a racist crime in his past. Through acts of penance both official and personal, Mac struggles to find redemption.
As teenagers, in a drunken incident Mac Chorniak...
- Author:Meno, JoeSummary:
Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatness. As the only Eastern European family growing up on their block on the far southside of Chicago, the pair were inseparable until each...
- Author:Roberts, SherrySummary:
FINALIST: 2011 Midwest Book Awards Awesome Indies Seal of Approval Dyslexic Antigone Brown has trouble reading road signs, keeps a stone in her pocket to help her remember right from left and despairs of ever being a good mother to her...
- Author:Ferguson, JennySummary:
A fractured depiction of life after a death in a bifurcated Alberta/Saskatchewan community.
- Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:
Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Girl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are...
- Author:Davison, Carol Margaret, Simpson-Housley, PaulSummary:
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become...
- Author:Arcan, NellySummary:
Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate change and dramatic shifts in weather...
- Author:Chappell, FredSummary:
In May of 1946 science teacher Joe Robert Kirkman's day begins with hunting a mythical devil-possum in the North Carolina mountains and ends in defending his job before the school board.
- Author:McGrath, WendySummary:
Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa. Budding with creativity that her working-class parents...
- Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary:
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and...
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