The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...
Manners and customs
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
- Author:Cimon, AnneSummary:
Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby in 1832. The Moodies were seeking financial security and a better life in the colony, but they found themselves...
- 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:McLean, Maria ColettaSummary:
Escape to Italy with this heartwarming memoir. Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a...
- Author:Firth, MatthewSummary:
Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine.
Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories...
- Author:Brown, Jennifer S. H.Summary:
The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group --...
- Author:FRASER, Christine MarionSummary:
Explores the growing relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new lady doctor on the Hebridean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.
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Written by the most beloved Western authors of all time, these classic stories tell of love, adventure, and treachery on the wild frontier. Stories include "Cañon Walls" by Zane Grey, "Black Sheep" by Max Brand, and "Showdown on the...
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Written by the most beloved Western authors of all time, these classic stories tell of love, adventure, and treachery on the wild frontier. Stories include "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey, "Jargan" by Max Brand, and "The Trail to Crazy...
- Author:Galway, AnneSummary:
Children in their formative years often learned secrets and gained an understanding of a wider world through the hole in the ceiling. Now as adults, they share for the first time their cherished memories of overheard conversations that...
- Author:Quarles, AngelaSummary:
Jack the Ripper might be in town. But is marriage more terrifying? In an alternate Deep South in 1890, society reporter Adele de la Pointe wants to make her own way in the world, despite her family’s pressure to become a society wife....
- Author:HARRY, LilianSummary:
The village of Burracombe is looking forward to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, but 1953 is to prove a year of heartbreak as well as celebration. While Stella Simmons begins to plan her wedding to Felix Copley, her sister Maddy is...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
Jack Hodgins‘ first book, published originally in 1976, is once again in print — in a new edition. Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award, Spit Delaney's Island, a collection of short stories,...
- Author:NABOKOV, Vladimir VladimirovichSummary:
From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
1918. La guerre s'éternise de l'autre côté de l'océan tandis que les Pelletier sont en pleine commotion dans leur petite ville. Fidèle à elle-même, Lucille, la mère manipulatrice capable de tout pour arriver à...
- Author:Carriger, GailSummary:
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society. Alexia Tarabotti is laboring...
- 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:Didion, JoanSummary:
The "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California,...
- Author:Ivory, JudithSummary:
In a steamy retelling of the well-known fairy tale, the beautiful courtesan Coco Wilde is famous for her ability to keep the wealthiest men in 19th century London hanging on her every smile. But she maintains a careful emotional...
- Author:Mechefske, LindySummary:
Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime minister. Sir John's Table traverses the...