Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her long-awaited debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and...
Young women
- Author:Packer, ZZSummary:
- Author:Hunt, La JillSummary:
Kayla Hopkins is a woman who finds herself in a complicated situation. Kayla is in love with a man, but the matter is complicated by the fact that the man she's in love with isn't the father of her unborn baby. Now she's got some...
- Author:Lazurko, AnneSummary:
Housekeeper or whore? A dollybird is either or both in the vocabulary of the prairie west in 1906, leaving the community to draw its own conclusions about who and what Moira is and isn't. Determined to find redemption in the midst of...
- Author:McWhirter, TeresaSummary:
Longlisted for the ReLit Award Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun.
Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning–with one's past, one's choices, and one's expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a...
- Author:Forbes, ElenaSummary:
Die. Die with me. Be mine forever. That's what he had said. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian's Church in a quiet London suburb, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death...
- Author:Butler Hallett, MichelleSummary:
In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a...
- Author:Fein, LouiseSummary:
For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime. She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction...
- 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:Mendis, LisaSummary:
In the post-punk, global economy of the 1980's, four young women from very different backgrounds are united by a common goal: justice. Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges...
- Author:Rigetti, SusanSummary:
A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, and Parade! "[A] juicy tale of stolen identities and ever-increasing fraud ... The book ended with a wallop that made me literally gasp?and admire debut author Susan Rigetti...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up...
- Author:Ashby, MadelineSummary:
"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to...
- Author:Wright, RichardSummary:
It's the late 1930s and two sisters, Clara and Nora Callan, face the future with both hope and uncertainty. Clara, a 30ish schoolteacher who lives in small-town Ontario, longs for love and adventure. Nora, her flighty and very pretty...
- Author:Selvadurai, ShyamSummary:
Set in 1920s' Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo...
- Author:Biagi, SusanSummary:
Set in 17th-century Mi'kma'ki, territory of the Mi'kmaq of Maritime Canada, Cibou is the story of a young Mi'kmaw woman and her relationship with Jesuit missionary Antoine Daniel -- a historical figure who was stationed in Cape Breton...
- Author:Burkowicz, TaslimSummary:
This book is a moving contribution to the growing body of fictional writings about migrants and racialized women across transnational borders. An authentic description of events and stories that is profoundly touching.
- Author:Myles, EileenSummary:
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.
In this...
- Author:Weisberger, LaurenSummary:
As three best friends approach the age of thirty, they agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible -- and within one calendar year.
- Author:Aidoo, Ama AtaSummary:
Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy...
- Author:Frank, Elizabeth BalesSummary:
For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight-then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett...