Canadian fiction

  • Les repentirs

    Creator

    Séguin, Marc

    Abstract

    Marc Séguin revoit le garçon, l'adolescent puis le jeune adulte qu'il a été. Tous grugés par une incessante inquiétude, ils reviennent hanter l'homme mûr, le peintre reconnu qu'il est devenu. Il y a un train qui siffle au loin, des fissures multiples, un ravin qui se creuse. Et les seins de la belle Arielle. Il y aura des morts. Une amitié malmenée. Et un amour empêché. Comment aimer et se laisser aimer quand on est coupé de ses sentiments? Comment réparer l'irréparable?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Montreal

    Québec Amérique

    Montreal

    Québec Amérique

    Not specified
  • Keeper'n me

    Creator

    Wagamese, Richard

    Abstract

    When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Anchor Canada

    Toronto

    Anchor Canada

    Not specified
  • Funeral songs for dying girls

    Creator

    Dimaline, Cherie

    Abstract

    After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series. Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Tundra Books

    Toronto

    Tundra Books

    Not specified
  • Every summer after

    Creator

    Fortune, Carley

    Abstract

    #1 national bestseller – New York Times bestseller. Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Viking

    Toronto

    Viking Canada

    Not specified
  • Empire of wild

    Creator

    Dimaline, Cherie

    Abstract

    Indigo's #1 best book of 2019 • National bestseller from the author of The Marrow Thieves, the #1 national bestseller, multi-award winner and Canada Reads finalist "Wildly entertaining and profound and essential." —Tommy Orange, The New York Times Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Canada

    Toronto

    Random House Canada

    Not specified
  • Delicious monsters

    Creator

    Sambury, Liselle

    Abstract

    "A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists." --Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston -- The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this "genuinely terrifying" (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart. Daisy sees dead people--something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    Not specified
  • Daughters of the deer

    Creator

    Daniel, Danielle

    Abstract

    National bestseller • In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family’s ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers. 1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Canada

    Toronto

    Random House Canada

    Not specified
  • Come from away

    Creator

    Graham, Genevieve

    Abstract

    From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker's three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster

    New York

    Simon & Schuster

    Not specified
  • Blood sports

    Creator

    Robinson, Eden

    Abstract

    This eagerly anticipated new novel is Eden Robinson’s most satisfying, disturbing, and addictive to date. A new novel from one of our best young writers, Blood Sports is the tough, gritty story of the brutal cat-and-mouse relationship between two cousins — Tom and Jeremy Bauer — set in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Tom, a young man, hardly innocent, has been caught up over the years in Jeremy’s world of drugs, extortion, and prostitutes, while Jeremy, vindictive, vicious, either protects Tom or uses him, but always controls him.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Emblem Editions

    New York

    Emblem Editions

    Not specified
  • Blood like magic : Blood like magic, book 1

    Creator

    Sambury, Liselle

    Abstract

    "High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic...unputdownable." --Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys -- A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family's magic. The problem is, she's never been in love--she'll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. After years of waiting for her Calling--a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers--the one thing Voya Thomas didn't expect was to fail.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    Not specified