When plain, outspoken Yorkshire schoolgirl Marjory Thompson immigrates with her rambunctious family to Canada in 1904, her parents are convinced that fortune awaits in the flat farmland of Manitoba. Before long, the impatient Marjory...
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Author:Lapointe, AnnetteSummary:Finalist, ReLit Award. Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year (Manitoba Book Awards). Finalist, Bisexual Book Award (USA).
Whitetail Shooting Gallery, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette...
- Author:Decter, NoraSummary:
The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies, and everything smells like a...
- Author:Whitaker, ChrisSummary:
With We begin at the end, Chris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale...
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town's legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed...
- Author:Flynn, RobertSummary:
When the new highway being constructed avoids Wanderer Springs, the town is left to wither in the dust. Will Callaghan, back for a funeral, remembers the town's sometimes funny, sometimes paintul past, including the time he cost his...
- Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:
L’été est une saison importante pour le gîte de Jo Marie Rose. Mark Taylor et elle ont passé beaucoup de temps ensemble pour aménager au mieux ce lieu paradisiaque. Et même si la jeune femme essaie de se persuader que Mark n’est qu’un...
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Author:Blanchard, AliceSummary:A riveting mystery that introduces a bold and audacious rookie detective assigned to hunt for a killer who is haunted by the past in this gripping murder case. Natalie Lockhart always knew she was going to be a cop. A rookie detective...
- Author:Geni, AbbySummary:
Caught up in the charismatic thrall of her recently returned brother, Tucker, nine-year-old Cora agrees to accompany him on a cross-country mission to make war on human civilization.
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Author:Kuipers, MelissaSummary:Original, witty, and subtle, these stories feature characters who must navigate life in a small town, and will appeal to fans of Miriam Toews and Kathleen Winter. This collection of beautifully crafted short stories features complex...
- Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or...
- Author:Mah, MelanieSummary:
Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse, whereby she and her siblings will each die at age eighteen when they leave their small hometown. Three...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers—known as the Night Ninjas—recently...
- Author:Strong, Aline SandraSummary:
In The Point, a small-town lawyer is struggling to keep his practise going in spite of his wife’s outrageous behaviour. But shortly after he takes on an urgent brief for a member of a prominent Canadian family, he and his devoted nurse...
- Author:Novak, BrendaSummary:
When your life is chaotic, what's one more complication? Jane Tanner's friends are settling down, while she's been settling for less. She longs for adventure and the big city, but caring for her ailing grandfather means...
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Author:Taylor, GeneSummary:When Everett Coleman’s longtime enemy JB Sanderson dies, Everett’s nephew Blake comes to visit his uncle. He worries JB’s death might have a negative effect on the old man, despite Everett and JB’s very public hatred for each other....
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
Devon McAllister flees danger with her daughter and ends up in Thunder Point, Oregon, where she meets widowed father Spencer Lawson, a man who can teach her about safety and stability.
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets-can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative...
- Author:Ashby, CarterSummary:
He never expected to find a home. She never expected to find love. When Rye Holcomb arrives in town, it’s with a chip on his shoulder and the certainty that he and his brother will never fit in. Even after landing a job with McKay...
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his "visionary brand of neo-noir" (The Irish Times) to this "riveting and chilling" (San Francisco Examiner) Charlie Parker thriller about new secrets buried and...
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