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Lorato lives a comfortable but lonely life in her retirement years, alone in the home her husband had built in their rural village on the Kalahari in southern Africa.

A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others.

Thirty-two-year-old Kang is a new immigrant in Toronto.

Lucien and Nataša might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn't caught up with her. Nataša finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered.

Ever since her mom died of Huntington's disease, Logan has been in a permanent state of neutral. Her dad has been depressed and lonely, but Logan is . . . something else.

Like a Québécois Bridget Jones's Diary, Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman w

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond.

Abby Faria returns from an extended vacation/work holiday in BC to discover that her friend, Maria is having marital problems, problems that are affecting her children as well.

Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of streng

What do a trunk full of vintage clothes, a handsome land developer, and a fifty year old diamond heist have in common?

The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England.

Digger Doyle was eight when his father set off on a secret adventure but did not return.

A frail old man who ritually mutilates himself. A hermit hag who finally emerges from her den.

When Lady Olivia Darnley is seemingly abandoned by her mother, she accepts the assistance of a stranger, Lady Skeffington, who offers her a position as a companion, much to her son's dismay.

Northern Soldiers killed Liam's parents and left the half white, half Chinese boy for dead. The feared Quantrill's raiders, rescued him to fight for the racially intolerant south.