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A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value.

Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby.

"Valentine Schwartz had it all: his girlfriend was the most beautiful girl in school, he came from a rich family, and his best friend, Huddie Rosen, all but worshiped him.

The Vanishing Man is a collection of linked short stories about a man trying to come to terms with his past, a religious upbringing, in an ever-changing personal world that constantly throws him in

Bujumbura, Burundi is one of the last places you would expect to find Thomas Brossard.

"The Western Light, the prequel to the international bestselling The Wives of Bath, is Susan Swan''s long-awaited return to the life of the beloved narrator Mary "Mouse" Bradford.

Caught in a net of her own lies

The latest installment in Dave Hugelschaffer's innovative murder-mystery series sends forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel to the isolated northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan, where

At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross.

After her father disappears on Crystal Night, fifteen-year-old Freda, her mother and Freda's younger sister flee Germany for the -safe haven- of Shanghai.

When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned o

The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed.

Thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, then Harry stumbles across a ring. He discovers the ring gives him different powers every day.

The artistic world of mid-16th Century Italy comes to life through the eyes of a piebald slave stolen from her home and family in Africa.

Married woman Natha Cole works as a prostitute and eventually reconnects with her former client, bookstore owner, Jules Moore and becomes drawn to an auctioneer.