The first in a spicy, hilarious HGTV-inspired romantic comedy trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation...
Literature
- Author:Bailey, TessaSummary:
- Author:Spoon, Rae.Summary:
Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young...
- Author:Dolan, NaoiseSummary:
“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” —Vogue
A RECOMMENDED... - Author:Vien, RosselSummary:
Fils natif, oublié, du Québec et fils adoptif, méconnu, du Manitoba où il a vécu sa vie d’adulte, Rossel Vien a fait une entrée remarquée en histoire et en littérature. En 1955, il fait paraître Histoire de Roberval, coeur du...
- Author:Roure, JacquesSummary:
Hélène, après une enfance difficile, va rencontrer Molly, son professeur au collège. Après avoir rebondi sur toutes les péripéties ayant accompagné son adolescence, elle se lance avec Molly dans la création d'une boutique...
- Author:Lavoie, Marie-RenéeSummary:
Il fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s...
- Author:Primeau, Marguerite-ASummary:
Instituteur, Joseph Lormier quitte Montréal en 1919 pour aller enseigner dans le nord albertain. Il fonde le village de L’Avenir, berceau d’une paroisse canadienne-française. Mais lorsque la crise économique bat son plein, un...
- Author:Kinsella, W.P.Summary:
A collection of short stories written by W. P. Kinsella in 1977, containing seventeen stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that...
- Author:Kiefer, Barbara ZulandtSummary:
This classic text shows readers how children’s literature can capture the attention of K-8 students and foster a lifelong love of reading. It is the standard work in the field. The text covers learning about children’s literature,...
- Author:Ford, RichardSummary:
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later." So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the...
- Author:Davies, RichardSummary:
A multi-genre anthology catering to the college-bound student. Timely, relevant, contemporary themes engage students and provide opportunities for discussion and reflection.
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
DescriptionBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855.
- Author:Kincaid, JamaicaSummary:
This collection is Jamaica Kincaid's earliest published writings: her inspired, lyrical short stories. These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her...
- Author:Panofsky, RuthSummary:
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female...
- Author:Damrosch, DavidSummary:
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them *Featured in the Chicago Tribune' s Great 2021 Fall Book...
- Author:Woodcock, PatrickSummary:
Like an embedded journalist, Patrick Woodcock writes his poetry from the front lines of experience.
From cities reeling from the trauma of siege warfare to the stifling heat and politics of the Arabian Peninsula to the darkest...
- Author:Cho, AllanSummary:
A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. Over the years, Ricepaper... - Author:Macleod, AlisonSummary:
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR FICTION
Longlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short Story
Hovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection,... - Author:Long, Julie AnneSummary:
Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold war hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's Palace of Rogues series. She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her...
- Author:Wanjala, Barbara, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection...