Peter is an expert canoeist, attempting to follow the explorers' paths to the Artic. Sara is a novice, seeking adventure and a change from her boring life in London, England. They come together in...
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Author: Clinton, ChrisSummary:Genre: General fiction, Canadian fiction
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Author: Haigh, J. C.Summary:
The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that...
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Author: Kallio, WayneSummary:
Tells the true story of this middle-class couple's face-to-face battle with schizophrenia.
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Author: Driedger, WilliamSummary:
Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.
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Author: Kaminsky, Stuart M.Summary:
The body of a middle-aged man is found in the elevator of a ritzy doorman building on the Upper East Side. Mac Taylor and Aiden Burn's initial investigation yields no bullets, no DNA evidence, and...
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Author: Collins, Max AllanSummary:
After a room-service waiter stumbles across a killer and a body, Homicide cop Jim Brass summons forensic investigator Gil Grissom and his staff--including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, and...
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Author: Park, JeffSummary:
This striking volume effortlessly draws the reader in, exhaling the vitality of music greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Miles Davis and many more. Here is a book for both...
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Author: McDonald, AnneSummary:
Alex was in harmony with the water. He taught himself to swim and liked working the sea but always yearned for something more. His brother Reggie despised it all and yearned to escape. Mercy Coles...
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Bechtel, GregSummary:
In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us....
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Keith, Esmé ClaireSummary:
Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on the Mariola. The Cruise is not just any cruise. It's the whole shebang. It's around the world. It's a lifestyle change: G...
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Author: Whitton, DavidSummary:
Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can't help but unravel back to their...
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fiction -
Author: Wilson, JulieSummary:
Seen Reading is the exciting debut collection of microfictions from Canada's pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson. Based on the beloved online movement of the same name,Seen Reading collects...
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fiction -
Author: Williams, IanSummary:
These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the...
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Author: Colford, IanSummary:
Enrique Tom's lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has secrets. When his second eldest son, Hector, and Hector's beloved friend Nadia...
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Author: Da Costa, PauloSummary:
"In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core. Paulo da Costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories