In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the...
Ontario--Toronto
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Author:Mukherjee, SamSummary:Rimana Sen, a young Indian woman, is thrilled to be recruited by a company in Canada and pleased to escape her mother’s expectations of marriage. On the flight to Canada she meets Jug Ducati, a young Canadian. By the time their flight...
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Author:Jolly, B. DenhamSummary:Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book Award. A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where...
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Author:Filey, MikeSummary:First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today.Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening...
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Author:Croza, LaurelSummary:This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Demi Pallas. The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest in Saskatchewan, where her father...
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Author:Redekop, CoreySummary:An outlandishly funny, unambiguously bloody novel about fame, love, religion, politics, and appetite
It is one thing to die, alone and confused, trapped with your pants down around your ankles in the filthiest...
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Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:A dazzling portrait of twenty-somethings who grew up on text-messaging and the war on terror.In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation...
- Author:Jennings, MaureenSummary:
It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book’s plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate...
- Author:Rotenberg, RobertSummary:
In the latest thrilling crime novel from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg, Homicide Detective Ari Greene discovers the bludgeoned body of Toronto's most reviled developer behind his controversial new construction site. When...
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Author:Toronto, Planned Parenthood ofSummary:More and more gay teens are talking. They are speaking about their lives, about the realization of their sexuality, and the consequences for themselves. These young people discuss the reactions of their friends and families, their...
- Author:Jalaluddin, UzmaSummary:
From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of "You've Got Mail," set in two competing halal restaurants. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden...
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Author:Clark, TrevorSummary:Well into his forties, Derrick Rowe finds himself chasing stray women and stealing cash from the bookstore he manages. Having decided it’s time to stop spinning his wheels, he’s recently turned to robbing banks. Meanwhile, he bails his...
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Author:Reid-Benta, ZalikaSummary:Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle--of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or...
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Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:Rennie is in Uruguay when his cousins discover a secret cache at their dead grandfather's cottage. Thousands of dollars in foreign currencies. A mystifying notebook. Multiple passports, some obviously fake. A gun. A disguise. And a...
- Author:Miriam, ToewsSummary:
The beloved author of bestsellers" Women Talking ," A Complicated Kindness , and" All My Puny Sorrows "returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an...
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Author:Needham, Chris FSummary:Two voices, two families, two interweaving narratives with thirty years dividing them. In 1972 Birdie Cormack enters a highly controversial experiment in Toronto. Her story unfolds piece by fascinating piece, mostly by way of a...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:The joke? Toronto thinks it’s the centre of some multicultural universe, always bragging about how people come from every part of the world to live there. The punch line? Some of them are coming to commit crimes.
So yeah, Sharon...
- Author:Freedman, LaurieSummary:
After the sudden death of her lawyer husband, Nora flees her small town for the anonymity of Toronto. An ad lures her to rent a cheap apartment, where the landlord Henry lives in the next unit. Initially helpful to Nora, his charm hides...
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Author:Bloomfield, DacciaSummary:A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
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Author:Hunter, MartinSummary:The final installment of the critically acclaimed memoir series
Done Hunting brings Martin Hunter’s memoirs to a close, sharing adventures and observations from his sixth to ninth decades. With descriptions of...
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