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After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young man who falls on the extreme end of the autism spectrum, is found covered with blood at the suspected murder scene of a local businessman. When Chris Ryder is called in to find out what he can about the young man, he finds that the weight of blood might just be too much for him to bear. D.B.

Based on true events around the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, the book traces the life of a young English woman and her Muslim husband. From the husband's death in Pakistan, the story becomes her daughter Meena's recollection of the traumatic death and her own personal struggles and challenges in India and finally in Canada.

Flights of Marigold is a multi-generational family saga of betrayal, survival, deception, revenge, and redemption caused by a chain of addictions and power struggle. In an empire devastated by conquest and fanaticism, three sisters struggle to escape racism, imprisonment, and death, while a royal family challenges their brother for a portion of the kingdom. Can sisterhood maintain their relationships to reclaim their family heritage amid having differences in personal dreams and goals? Can the young king hold his kingdom together, yet facing treasonous siblings?

Discover the difference between living a life and simply enduring on in this cross-campus, cross-country comedy of manners, queerness, poetry and HIV. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV. DR SAD is the story of one man's journey across Canada and through his diagnosis. It is the story of the distance between queer urban spaces and a small campus in a small city in small-town BC.

One would hardly think an outlying college town on the prairies would be the place a woman from the 15th century would choose to reveal her story, but when janine begins to discover the story of madeleine of beauvais interpolated in the pages of her beloved books about the history of art and culture, an enigmatic presence begins to form. Mystified by references to madeleine which seem to appear in her books only to disappear again, and unhappy with her own restless ever-aftering, janine becomes preoccupied with uncovering the secrets of madeleine's life.

It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend?an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid up in the hospital. Outside, as the city reels from an unthinkable disaster, Shermeto finds himself away from the swelling river and face-to-face with a part of the past he is trying to hide from: his daughter Kendra.

An expertly constructed Agatha Christie-like tale, written with the steadfast and humorous pen of a Maria Campbell. Forceful and unflinching, at times painful, but always love-laden and often funny, Humane is a story about family and community; an examination and denunciation of historical injustices, and a relentless search for truth and integrity. Carmen Rodriguez, Chilean-Canadian writer and educator; award-winning author of and a body to remember with and Retribution. Who steals a dog from a shelter after receiving a dream message from their grandmother?

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long braided hair and wear beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where everything was taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history and, ultimately, a story of empowerment and strength.

Cat hasn't been to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was twelve years old. Since the summer she discovered she could do things that no normal twelve-year-old could do. Since she had her first kiss with Riley Fraser. Since she destroyed their friendship. Now, five years later, she's back and Riley has disappeared.

Rouge-Babine est une vampire intolérante au sang humain, qui a développé des pouvoirs bien spéciaux grâce à la potion qui la nourrit. Elle rêve de mener des enquêtes comme son idole Sherlock Holmes. Son village va devenir le théâtre de meurtres, de vols et de disparitions. Rouge-Babine a enfin des mystères à se mettre sous les crocs ! Contient : Rouge-Babine, vampire détective, tome 1 Mission royale pour Rouge-Babine, tome 2 Rouge-Babine et l'Opération Jade, tome 3 Cauchemar blanc pour Rouge-Babine, tome 4.