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In a small Ontario town, seven women gather occasionally to watch movies on video. Gilaine E.

First published in 1932, in Finch’s Fortune, Finch Whiteoak celebrates his twenty-first birthday and comes into his inheritance from Grandmother Adeline.

In the tradition of such great Latin American magic realists as Jorge Amada, Sergio Kokis recreates the magic world of a child in Brazil.The novel is told from the point of view of a Brazilian pain

Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario’s James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father.

Growing up, Rosie had never known any of her father's family.

Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adul

Winner of the 1927 Atlantic-Little, Brown Award First published in 1927, this international bestseller is now back in print.

Runner-up for the 2004 ReLit Award High fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all these when he’s suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into

Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation Larry Volt is one of the rare Quebec novels that deals with the FLQ crisis.

Christian Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion and displacement of a diminishing band of men facing the daily spectre of an unforgiving land, men enslaved to the grind of the sawmill, hunker

Whether we are eavesdropping on the imaginative Saturdays of a Portuguese cleaning lady or living through a divorced woman’s search for the elusive orgasm.

It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager.

It is 1942, and 12-year-old Laura Campbell arrives in Toronto, a city bustling with the war effort and news from abroad.

All the ingredients for a superb thriller are present in John Bishop Ballem’s tenth novel.

Hakeem Jinnah enjoys an ordinary life of working the Vancouver Tribune's crime beat, flirting with women, seeking interested investors in a mail-order-bride scheme, and driving around in his s