Kingston writer Richard Cumyn’s second book of short stories is a remarkable collection of fiction about the curse of modernity–displacement.
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Author:Cumyn, Richard
Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Mock, Irene
Summary:Inappropriate Behaviour has a magnetism as alluring as the sirens, summoning readers to revel in the coy seduction that preludes desire, the truths women deny and the longing they supress, unleashe
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Skogan, Joan
Summary:Joan Skogan’s marvelously poetic new novel draws upon her own years adrift on the sea as a wanderer and wonderer to tell the story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debri
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Russell, Lawrence
Summary:In Repeat This and You’re Dead, celebrated dramatist Lawrence Russell ventures for the first time into fiction.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Robinson, Gregor
Summary:With exceptional power, Robinson exposes both the gravity and levity of relationships — formed in duty, in fear, in need — and the subtle ways we attempt to escape their persistent pull.
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Author:Watmough, David
Summary:Advance Praise from Carol Shields, author of Unless and The Stone Diaries "I read The Moor Is Dark Beneath the Moon with great pleasure and with a particular appreciation for its narrative ene
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Author:Lawson, Julie
Summary:In a tumble-down house carved out of the dunes lives an old man with second sight. He is the sifter of sands, the man who separates the sparkling mica, black lava, golden-reds, and misty grays.
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Author:Alma, Ann
Summary:During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough trail in a Vancouver Island forest. Halfway to an abandoned homestead, Lee trips and is knocked unconscious.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Villeneuve, Gisèle
Summary:Visiting Elizabeth follows a friendship that begins and ends with a needle. Elizabeth teaches Ariane to speak her mind.
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Author:de la Roche, Mazo
Summary:First published as Whiteoaks in 1929, in Whiteoaks of Jalna, the saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Owl, Grey
,Polk, James
Summary:In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nati
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Author:Kerbel, Deborah
Summary:2012 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award — Shortlisted 2010 Cybils Award — Shortlisted A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John Absolutely nothing is going right for Max
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Author:Chandler, Ann
Summary:In 1910, while twelve-year-old Addy McLeod waits in a cabin in the Kootenay wilderness of southeastern British Columbia for her brother, Cask, to send for her, she fends off the unwanted advances o
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Author:Hauka, Donald J.
Summary:How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there’s a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk “God Squad,” and a conniving new editor to deal with?
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Author:Broeckhoven, Diane
,Hawke, Liedewij
Summary:When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up.
Genre: Domestic fictionAvailable Formats: