An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to unravel...
Women
- Author:Kirton, JónínaSummary:
- Author:McKinnon Crook, MarionSummary:
The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community...
- Author:Sizlo, NatashaSummary:
"This one brims with magic ... An absolute page-turner and joy to read!-- Jane Green, New York Times bestselling authorA surprising astrology reading sends Natasha Sizlo--divorced, broke, freshly heartbroken, and reeling from her...
- Author:Patriarca, GiannaSummary:
All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability...
- Author:Comen, ElizabethSummary:
A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been...
- Author:Kimber, StephenSummary:
Alexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she helped transform Nova Scotian and Canadian...
- Author:Pastan, RachelSummary:
At the Venice Biennale, an aspiring assistant curator from the Midwest meets Bernard Augustin, the wealthy, enigmatic founder of the Nauk, a cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod. It's been two years since the tragic death of the Nauk's...
- Author:Quinn, Shawna M.Summary:
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing...
- Author:Rushing, Jane GilmoreSummary:
Granny Albright's time has come and relatives have gathered to say goodbye to the matriarch. Linda Kay has recently married into the family, and tries to do her part to help. But when Cousin Herman arrives, feelings of resentment and...
- Author:Converse, CathySummary:
The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC's first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist. Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in Victoria in 1863, she was the first female...
- Author:Schwartz, Selby WynnSummary:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are...
- Author:Macdonald, Ann-MarieSummary:
Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young...
- Author:Mitchell, PenniSummary:
This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on...
- Author:Dekker, TedSummary:
A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have...
- Author:Evans, Rachel HeldSummary:
This 2020 audiobook edition of Rachel Held Evans's New York Times bestseller features narration by Rachel Held Evans's sister, Amanda Opelt, and husband, Daniel Evans. With just the right mixture of humor and insight,...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
While their men fight on far-flung battlefields, America's women help produce what's necessary for victory. In a Michigan shipyard, four female co-workers forge strong bonds of friendship.
- Author:Rum, EtafSummary:
Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with...
- Author:Whitlock, NathanSummary:
A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who...
- Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:
Montréal, avenue du Parc, rue Saint-Viateur. Des passants se croisent, vont et viennent, anonymes dans la foule. L’art subtil de Mary Soderstrom consiste à nous faire pénétrer dans l’intimité de ces inconnus qui semble, au premier abord...