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Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life. His thoughts reach back to his boyhood rejection of the boisterous ways of his father, just home from the war, to the memorable evening when he first prayed, eyes open, floating in a silent magic space with stars drenching the sky above and mirror lake below him. Even now, the canoe remains his own vehicle for understanding solitude.

Mort Halbman is the prime suspect in an arson investigation when his family home burns down, and he feels compelled to continually return to the ruins and to the memories the place still holds for him. Haunted by the memories of his former home and life, Mort Halbman risks everything in a daring attempt at a last shot at redemption. Halbman is a crotchety, divorced, 65-year-old garment manufacturer, who laments losing the one true love of his life, the Montreal Expos.

A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre - in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer - as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of Palestinians.

The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately following the wedding ceremony. In the case of Rachel and Chaim, who have only had a handful of chaperoned dates, this is the first time they have ever been alone together.In another part of the synagogue, tensions rise between the groom's older brothers, Ephraim and Menachem, rival Torah scholars who haven't seen each other in four years. Meanwhile, the bride's parents, Mordechai and Malka, are secretly planning to divorce after the wedding.

The angels at God’s office complex regularly turn out amazing projects. They’re hard at work on their greatest work yet — the universe — when Lucifer, a lowly angel toiling away on the development of human personality, is summoned by God. God offers Lucifer a big promotion; all Lucifer has to do to get it is rebel against Him. Dubious about having to challenge the all-seeing, all-knowing Creator, Lucifer finds himself butting heads with the other angels in order to see his mission through.

Father Mac is an extraordinary first novel of astonishing breadth. In it the reader is plunged into events in which the Church, the intelligence services, medicine and science all have a part to play.

Maviah is an outcast, but when she meets a man named Yeshua, he opens her eyes. Because of his teachings, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert. But when her growing power threatens the rulers around her, they set out to crush all she loves.

Anna, fleeing her abusive boyfriend, runs to an Amish inn. The family lets her stay, dressed in Plain clothing. But the older brother resents the intrusion--for a while. Anna feels she's found a true home, but will her chance for happiness be stolen?

Meg and Kenneth Sorenson are in their fifties and near early retirement, their hearts set on traveling abroad and spending limitless hours in the garden. But when they learn their son has gone MIA on a military assignment, they try to hold the family, and even their plans, together.

A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have never experienced it. Step back in time to the year of our Lord, Anno Domini, 30.