Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives.
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Author:Luo, Susie
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Author:LaDuke, Winona
Summary:In this highly anticipated new edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s t
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Author:Maillard, Keith
Summary:Set on a US college campus in 1964, In the Defense of Liberty is a powerful, fast-paced novel exploring gender nonconformity and the reach of history.
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Canales, Juan Díaz
Summary:Private investigator John Blacksad puts one of his nine lives on the line in this sizzling story of hot jazz and cold-blooded murder.
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Author:Chang, Janie
Summary:France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai.
Genre: Historical fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Ping, William
Summary:The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland--the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about William Ping's millennial life revolves around eating at r
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Ndala, Blaise
Summary:A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958.
Genre: Historical fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Sileika, Antanas
Summary:Is love more compelling than justice? A wife pleads for love. Her husband longs for revenge.
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Author:Jean, Michel
Summary:A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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Author:Chong, Kevin
Summary:A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.
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Author:Bergen, David
Summary:Away from the Dead is set in the chaotic times of the Russian revolution, and traces the lives of various characters connected through love and family and loyalty.
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Author:Richardson, C.S.
Summary:A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence.
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Author:Peterson, Tracie
Summary:Award-winning author of more than 70 best-selling books, Tracie Peterson crafts an inspiring story of Arctic adventure and selfless love.
Genre: Historical fiction, Religious fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Thomas, Kai
Summary: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 beginn
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Katouh, Zoulfa
Summary:Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must
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