Twelve short stories about love, loss, failure, and acceptance by an award-winning author. The daughter of an alcoholic desperate to be loved.
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Author:Benjamin, Chris
Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Spurway, Amy
Summary:When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable - and inoperable - brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer i
Genre: Canadian fiction, Humorous fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Lee, Philip
Summary:The Restigouche River flows through the remote border region between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, its magically transparent waters, soaring forest hillsides, and population of Atlanti
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Author:Trethewey, Laura
Summary:An exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.
Genre: Social science, Canadian nonfiction, EssaysAvailable Formats:
Author:LeBlanc, Tyler
Summary:Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn't fully aware of his family's Acadian roots - until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his fami
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Author:Enfield, Tyler
Summary:Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year-old gunslinger with a heart of gold. He's fallen for the mayor's daughter and resolves to make his mark, and his fortune, to win her favour.
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Author:Greenfield, Nathan M.
Summary:"Greenfield offers new insight into Bruno and Molly Lamb Bobak's complex relationship.
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Author:Béchard, Deni Ellis
Summary:A time warp into the strange and painful life of men past, present, and future. The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral.
Genre: Psychological fiction, War fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Butler Hallett, Michelle
Summary:Constant Nobody takes readers deep into the brutal hearts of darkness of both civil war Spain and Soviet Russia during Stalin's purges.
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Author:Robertson, Patricia
Summary:Patricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing characters, and sophisticated
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Pitts, Gordon
Summary:As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech innova
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Author:Ali, Kazim
Summary:Ali's lyrical, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of Northern C
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Author:Tattrie, Jon
Summary:Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life.
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Author:Avery, Jude
Summary:This manuscript is a culmination of years of effort to reveal a "lost chapter" in Canadian and Maritime history, a story that began with a Mi'kmaq and Basque seasonal presence on the
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Author:Crewe, Lesley
Summary:For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe's finest newspaper columns are collected in one place.
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