Winner of Northern Lit Award. Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016." Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016."
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Families
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Author:Jones, AmySummary: - Author:Morris, KathiSummary:
From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn't bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only...
- Author:Lockhart, E.Summary:
Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one in the family is a failure. No one is a psycho. No one is a criminal. The Sinclairs have vacationed on private Beechwood Island for generations. Not one of Granddad's precious...
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Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:In this sweet and lyrical board book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. A celebration of the bond between parent and child,...
- Author:Wheelan, Charles J.Summary:
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story. What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out;...
- Author:Pinsker, SarahSummary:
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes...
- Author:Dobson, KitSummary:
Playful, witty, and sharp, We are Already Ghosts is a summer book, a family story, a meditation of the persistence of place, and a chronicle of a time only just passed into memory. The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside...
- Author:Watson, RenéeSummary:
From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson, the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. Ryan Hart can be and do anything. Her name...
- Author:Hooper, KimSummary:
He sees the world differently than most, and he feels like he has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to raising his fifteen-year-old daughter, Cleo. She also feels like he has no idea what he’s doing, especially now that her mom is...
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Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is...
- Author:Boulley, AngelineSummary:
Named One of BookPage 's Best Audiobooks of 2023 "Actor Isabella Star LaBlanc excels at leading the reader deeper into the story with a tone that exudes both intriguing mystery and genuine emotion." - BookPage "...
- Author:Langhorst, BarbaraSummary:
Delphine Almquist and her husband Hugo are living the hobby farm life of her dreams on the Canadian Prairies, far from the world of climate change concerns and global conflict. The only thing missing is a spectacular new kitchen, a tiny...
- Author:Kinew, WabSummary:
An Indigenous teen girl caught is between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. Bugz is caught between two...
- Author:Ethari, Lamees AlSummary:
In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada. Through memory fragments, clips of poetry, diary entries, and...
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary:One chilly spring morning, Joe Beaudry and his wife Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge a saint. They are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Wal-Mart parking lot in Regina, Saskatchewan. Joe is trying...
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Author:Cousins, DaveSummary:Things could be going better for Oz. He’s just moved miles from all his friends. A prank at his new school puts him in the crosshairs of “Psycho” Isobel Skinner, a bully who also happens to be his mum’s new best friend. And he’s driven...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore. After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore. After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of...
- Author:Corbeil, CaroleSummary:
After experiencing the disintegration of their parents' marriage, Claudine and Janine Beaulieu's lives are further complicated when their mother Odette remarries an Anglophone and they are forced to "turn English." Now, years later,...
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the...
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