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Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond.

Abby Faria returns from an extended vacation/work holiday in BC to discover that her friend, Maria is having marital problems, problems that are affecting her children as well.

Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of streng

What do a trunk full of vintage clothes, a handsome land developer, and a fifty year old diamond heist have in common?

The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England.

Digger Doyle was eight when his father set off on a secret adventure but did not return.

A frail old man who ritually mutilates himself. A hermit hag who finally emerges from her den.

When Lady Olivia Darnley is seemingly abandoned by her mother, she accepts the assistance of a stranger, Lady Skeffington, who offers her a position as a companion, much to her son's dismay.

Northern Soldiers killed Liam's parents and left the half white, half Chinese boy for dead. The feared Quantrill's raiders, rescued him to fight for the racially intolerant south.

Fascinated by the Legend of the Cornwallis Ghost, Becca sneaks into a military base to see the ghost's tombstone.

A murder mystery set in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the Second World War.

Pizza for Two is Piers' journey. How tragedy transforms a somewhat dissolute youth into a responsible man when Nicole hires him as a delivery person for the flagging pizzeria she runs.

Gabby Mackenzie knows little and cares less about prairie people or their history.

In this adventurous novel--set in the ancient Arctic, but told by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator--a wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril.

Seventeen-year-old Will and his four friends escaped from a tropical island fortress then fought for freedom on a monstrous prison ship.