They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of...
Women authors
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Author:Fortune, CarleySummary: - Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
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Author:Showalter, ElaineSummary:At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--"New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form...
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Author:Webster, JeanSummary:When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Germaine, MarySummary:
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon,...
- Author:Kearsley, SusannaSummary:
Lorsque Carrie McClelland, auteur à succès, visite les ruines du château de Slains, elle est enchantée par ce paysage écossais, à la fois désolé et magnifique. La région lui semble étrangement familière, mais elle met de côté son léger...
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Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:Katherine O'Connor often spends her days at a cozy cafe on Blossom Street in Seattle, where she writes Christmas letters for other people. She's good at making their everyday lives sound more interesting. More humorous. More...
- Author:Quinn, Tara TaylorSummary:
Stéréotype de la jeune fille d’une petite ville le nez toujours fourré dans un livre, Tara Gumser n’a encore jamais été embrassée lorsqu’elle rencontre Tim Barney, le premier jour de l’université. Tara s’éprend très vite et très...
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Author:Chatterjee, AyeshaSummary:A collection of poems reflecting insights and experiences gained from the author's cultural roots and travels and homes in Asia, Europe and Canada.
- 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:Robertson, LisaSummary:
From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means...
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Author:Lambert, AnnSummary:As winter approaches a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in...
- Author:Watson, S. J.Summary:
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
- Author:Jalaluddin, UzmaSummary:
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her...
- Author:Lacasse, Marie-ÈveSummary:
Je n'ai jamais compris cette expression de "chez soi", se sentir bien "chez soi". En France, je suis étrangère; mais je suis étrangère où que j'aille et je n'ai trouvé, hélas, aucun lieu ni même aucun être auprès desquels je...
- Author:Fortier, DominiqueSummary:
Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres. C'est là, entre les murs gris de l'abbaye, que trouva refuge, au quinzième siècle, un peintre hanté par le souvenir de celle qu'il aimait....
- Author:Elliott, AliciaSummary:
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction* *Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground comes a mind-bending, gripping novel about Native...
- Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:
In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived...
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
The adult Medlar siblings have sworn off murder investigations. But with the sheriff away and Jack as deputy, all three soon face face investigating a dead body, a stranger in town, and exposed family secrets.
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux continues her breakout Medlar Mystery series with a twisted tale of guilt and revenge. The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in...
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