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Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.

A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears.

When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile

When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.

When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famin

Saul Indian Horse, who is dying in a big city hospice, embarks on a journey of imagination back through his life.

Alex was in harmony with the water. He taught himself to swim and liked working the sea but always yearned for something more. His brother Reggie despised it all and yearned to escape.

"Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on the Mariola. The Cruise is not just any cruise. It's the whole shebang. It's around the world.

"While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women.

"These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems.