Winner, Quiddity Award for Best Book Trailer. Shortlisted, Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and QWF First Book Prize. You're the kind of guy who falls in love after one date. Marginalized and alienated, perennial fuck-up Lee...
Canadian wit and humor
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Author:Harris, DougSummary: -
Author:Riche, EdwardSummary:When a retired actor who frequents a city park is purported to be transitioning from man to deer, municipal authorities in St. John’s, Newfoundland, find themselves confronted by an exasperatingly difficult problem.Complications mount...
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Author:Reid, IainSummary:Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation...
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Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of...
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Author:Braithwaite, Max.Summary:Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet...
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Author:Crozier, LornaSummary:In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen...
- Author:LEACOCK, StephenSummary:
A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town. This is a gentle journey through a past era, filled with quiet humour and insightful observations of the human condition.
- Author:Sorensen, Rob, Colburn, KerrySummary:
So, you want to be Canadian? Who doesn't these days? Canucks are enjoying a major renaissance in attention, from their enlightened social policies to their wild and wooly pop culture. This playful, trivia-packed book is a long-overdue...
- Author:ORKIN, Mark M.Summary:
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Author:Cole, TrevorSummary:In his first two, Governor General-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In PRACTICAL JEAN, he goes a step further: this is a...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
Tout est là : voici la vie sur la réserve, en haute définition. Dawn, la narratrice, revisite sa vie familiale, se replonge dans ses années d'école et s'engage résolument sur la voie de l'avenir. Situé quelque part entre le roman d'...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
"Readers are invited to witness first hand Dumant family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking, and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins to unfold. It is her...
- Author:Donahue, Anne T.Summary:
'The internet's best friend.' ' Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, 'Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy...
- Author:LEACOCK, StephenSummary:
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.
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Author:Wyatt, RachelSummary:Three women with time on their hands tackle a charitable cause in this novel about the pleasures of worshipping someone from afar, and the difficulties in trying to make the world a better place.
Dorothy Graham writes unsent...
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Author:SnookSummary:How Ya Gettin’On? is how downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, corner boy Snook says hello. He’s been hanging around, telling yarns, and having a laugh for over thirty years now, and this is his welcome for you to read all about...
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Author:Freed, JoshSummary:Latest hilarious collection from Leacock prize-winner! There’s only one antidote to our speed-crazed, tech-obsessed, gluten-sensitive, password-plagued, financially-jittery, fitness-phobic, fatness-fearing world—and that’s laughter. He...
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Author:Thrice, MarkSummary:This hilarious collection of the best and funniest columns published by syndicated humor columnist Mark Thrice takes an entertaining look at "normal" everyday life-from husbanding to parenting to holding down the job that is paying for...
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Author:Pike, GrandpaSummary:Humorous, inspiring, and sometimes thought-provoking stories
The subject of outhouses must be handled delicately. So we will tiptoe around it, moving from foot to foot, like you would—and you do—when you need to “go” and there is...
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Author:Riche, EdwardSummary:Nominated for the BMO Winterset Award and the ReLit Award From award-winning author Edward Riche comes an immensely readable and sharp novel about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. With his life growing more...
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