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Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA.G.A.

1963 - Finn Kenny has fled life in Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and homosexuals. He ends up on Vancouver Island working as a groundskeeper. Theodore Spencer, owner of Spencerwood Industries, is Finn's saviour, having offered him a job and a home at Finn's lowest moment. When Spencer dies unexpectedly, Finn's life is turned upside down once again as Lady Katherine, Spencer's widow, ascends to power. Thrown together by grief and suspicion, Finn and Lady Spencer must overcome their mutual dislike to keep Spencerwood Industries solvent.

It's July 1948, and peace has been declared in Europe. Sharon Lacey, the formerly fearless fighter pilot, leaves the English home she has known for years and makes her way back to Canada to build a new life. But daily life in postwar Calgary, Alberta, is more ambiguous than Sharon could ever have expected. In wartime, it seemed easy to know who the enemy was. Peace, it turns out, is a very different game.

Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death. The investigation that follows unleashes revelations that forever change the lives of three people: Will, the pilot who watches his mentor crash; Sharon, the widow struggling to come to terms with her loss; and Nathalie, an accident investigator with shadowy connections to the incident.

Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America. Whistle at Night and They Will Come: Indigenous Horror Stories Volume 2 delivers stories ranging from supernatural mythology and the paranormal to post-apocalyptic scenarios, and zombie lockdown-12 tales in all in short story and novella formats.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick, and a most anticipated book of 2023 by the Toronto Star , the Globe and Mail , OprahDaily, and Goodreads. India, 1898.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.

Des lettres pour réussir à dire au revoir Chère Linou. Voici commence chaque lettre que Mimi adresse à la petite soeur qu'elle n'a pas connue. Des lettres tapées sur une vieille dactylo où elle tente de démêler les racines du passé et les événements qui ont mené leur famille au point rupture. Des lettres où elle se confie, aussi. Sur ses amitiés, ses amours naissantes, sur ce qu'elle n'ose pas dire tout haut. Des mots tantôt drôles, tantôt déchirants, qui l'aident à se définir et à se libérer d'un secret trop longtemps retenu.

D'où je viens, il faut dire comme tout le monde ou bien se taire. Et ton père, ce n'est pas quelqu'un qui sait se taire. Ni quelqu'un qui aime dire comme tout le monde. Alors on a eu des ennuis. Pourtant, depuis qu'il est arrivé dans la vie de Mélie, se taire, c'est tout ce que son père sait faire. C'est que Sami, arrivé de loin, ne parle pas la même langue que sa fille et ne sait plus vivre en homme libre. Mélie devra l'apprivoiser, comme le chaton qu'elle a trouvé, et comme devront le faire monsieur Xavier et son amoureux avec la petite Mei-Li qu'ils viennent d'adopter.

La vie de Miranda, professeure de théâtre à l'université, est un cauchemar éveillé. L'accident qui a mis fin à sa prometteuse carrière de comédienne lui a laissé des douleurs chroniques aiguës. Tout semble lui filer entre les doigts, jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre trois étranges bienfaiteurs... Tout est bien est l'histoire d'une femme à son point de rupture ainsi qu'une dénonciation extraordinaire et impitoyablement drôle de notre refus collectif de reconnaître la douleur des femmes. Un roman subversif et puissant.