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  • Author:
    Goodman, Joanna
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    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:
    Kerr, Conor
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    Avenue of Champions is a collection of interlinked stories that investigates the inherent connection of Indigenous peoples to the land and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony as a form of resistance to displacement. Based...

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    Tremblay, Anne
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    Trente ans après que les rives envahissantes du lac Saint-Jean aient englouti leurs terres, François-Xavier Rousseau et Ti-Georges Gagné ne se sont toujours pas relevés. Alourdis par le fardeau des années et les regrets, ils se sont...

  • Author:
    Sneath, Daryl
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    Vector Sorn—intellectual and athletic prodigy—witnesses the tragic death of his mother when he is just fourteen years old. For the next four years, he does his best to maintain a sense of purpose, and at eighteen sets his sights on...

  • Author:
    Wiebe, Armin
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    Showcasing a selection of stories from Armin Wiebe's 30 year writing career, Armin's Shorts features tales from the familiarly fictitious Mennonite community of Gutenthal, re-imagined origin stories from the Tlįchǫ of the...

  • Author:
    Schroeder, Randy
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    On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, aging punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old...

  • Author:
    Leggat, Alexandra
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    Finalist, Trillium Book Award.

    The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat's characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the...

  • Author:
    King, Sharon
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    This delightful story with its paper illustrations is perfect for the imagination. Busy beavers get things done! We can all learn a lot from the hard work of the beaver. And now more than ever, at this time when more people are engaging...

  • Author:
    Perović, Lydia
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    A visceral tale of obsession and creativity, unrequited passions and the power of music. A love story in which art is a foil to companionship, and the intellect an interlocutor of the heart. In the utterly unique All that Sang, the...

  • Author:
    Strube, Cordelia
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    This is the story of Zee, an aimless ex-lawyer who has turned his inability to make a decision into a fine art, and his wife, Alex, a practical and hard-working social worker who feels her biological clock ticking loudly. Reverberating...

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    Proverbs, Wendy
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    Based on the true story of the author's biological mother and aunt, this middle-grade novel traces the long and frightening journey of two Kaska Dena sisters as they are taken from their home to attend residential school. When Maddy...

  • Author:
    Bennett, Jonathan
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    While most of the action takes place in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, this whirlwind tour of long-separated twins also lands in Hawaii, London, Scotland, Madrid, and Mallorca. The twins — Curt, an Australian jazz musician, and William...

  • Author:
    Edizel, Loren
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    John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...

  • Author:
    Doran, Gerard
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    John Whelan, champion oarsman, has all but given up on competitive rowing. On the cusp of forty, the Outer Cove fisherman is trying to accept that his time as a rower has passed. His wife agrees, telling him, “Breaking your back down on...

  • Author:
    Sawai, Gloria
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    In her stunning, Governor-General's-Award-winning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins.

    In her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines...

  • Author:
    Saint-Pierre, Annette
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    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:
    Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy Henry
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    With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rythmic text, this sturdy board book introduces the alphabet using iconic imagery of the West Coast, creating a book that will be...

  • Author:
    Oza, Janika
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    INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family...

  • Author:
    Ireland, Ann
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    Winner of the 1985 Seal Books First Novel Award and of the Books in Canada First Novel Award To Mrs. Hopper, Yoshi Takahashi may be just another name from her daughters’ past, but for Jean and her sister, Colette, he stands for much...

  • Author:
    Guilbault, Geneviève
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    Nouvelle année = Nouvelles résolutions ! Le bonheur n’est pas une option ! Allez hop ! Morgane ! Un peu de motivation ! À partir de maintenant, je vais tout faire pour être heureuse. Pour y arriver, je dois m’éloigner de ce qui me rend...

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