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Ingrid and Norah have an unconventional upbringing -- growing up in a motel, raised by their mother and her partner.

In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians.

Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again.

In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick's two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in its post-war h

Daisy's job is to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Sixty-two-year-old English professor Hugh Norman is getting ready to retire and just going through the motions. He's detached, irreverent, and quite pleased with himself.

In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario - not to be confused with Milton, Ontario - leaves his par

Jess is a sensitive creature of habit. Cait is her passionate and impulsive best friend.

With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists ... the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations.

For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story.

Sebastian Synard is back.

When Sebastian Synard leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John's harbour, one of them ends up dead. Is there a heartless murderer in Sebastian's tour group?

In 1977, a young woman swipes a duffel bag of drug money and flees her bad-news boyfriend, hitching a ride with a long-haul trucker who points out satellites and enthuses about the future of space

Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically.

Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John's.