An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn't more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero...
Literary
- Author:Bell, MeghanSummary:
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
All her life, Lark Brossard has felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother, Marianne; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliantly talented pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally...
- Author:Warner, PatrickSummary:
Double Talk tells the story of Violet Budd and Brian (Baby) Power, two characters fleeing from their past. Brian is ambling after an immigrant’s dream, and Violet is desperate to ditch her middle class origins for something more earthy...
- Author:Anglin, Emily, Code, Devon, Henderson, Lee, Ah-Sen, Jean MarcSummary:
Four writers, four different perspectives on the problematic notion of purity."All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal." With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the...
- Author:Doyle, TerrySummary:
***DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST******ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION FINALIST*****MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD - FICTION FINALIST******NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD FINALIST***In...
- Author:Landry, JacquelineSummary:
Un tueur en série continue de semer la terreur dans la région vancouvéroise : une autre femme au corps mutilé est retrouvée sans vie près de la voie ferrée où passe le West Coast Express. Le psychopathe, qui se fond depuis des mois dans...
- Author:Marques, IreneSummary:
Daria is a novel about a young immigrant girl trying to find her way in a new (but also very old) world, where patriarchal networks abound. Daria’s story is bound to multiple characters, their individual stories forcing the reader to...
- Author:Soles, CaroSummary:
Winner, 2021 IPPY Bronze Medal for Canada-East Best Regional Fiction.
Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of... - Author:Tucker, HeatherSummary:
'It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing.' — San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker's debut, The Clay Girl From...
- Author:Steeves, MikeSummary:
'I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death.' Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world,...
- Author:Morgan-Cole, TrudySummary:
In the 1920s, Jim, Bert and Rose Evans all move from Newfoundland to Brooklyn, New York, in search of work and a better life, leaving their sister Annie back home in St. John’s. By the Rivers of Brooklyn traces the story of the Evans...
- Author:Macneil, BeatriceSummary:
Shunned as an outsider and mistreated due to an undiagnosed learning disability, the young and imaginative Mari-Jen Delene retreats into silence. Around her, the fictional community of Ste. Noire, Cape Breton, hosts a vividly drawn cast...
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Maud Lewis is a folk art legend who persevered through stigma, poverty, and disability to create beautiful and lasting pieces of art. Brighten the Corner Where You Are brings illumination to Maud's life.
- Author:Evanson, Tawhida TanyaSummary:
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist...
- Author:Michaud, Andrée A.Summary:
Été 67. Le soleil brille sur Boundary Pond, un lac frontalier rebaptisé Bondrée par Pierre Landry, un trappeur dont le souvenir ne sera bientôt plus que légende. Le temps est au rire et à l'insouciance. Sissy et Zaza dansent le hula...
- Author:Benvie, RobSummary:
A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the next stage in a secretive covenant. A renowned poet retraces her...
- Author:Morrow, JennieSummary:
Bird Shadows is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that seems to be killing her...
- Author:Marston, MissySummary:
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The colourful, fascinating characters that roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants...
- Author:Muraoka, EriSummary:
The bestselling biography of renowned Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables available in English for the first time The name Hanako Muraoka is revered in Japan. Her Japanese translation of L. M. Montgomery's beloved children...