A novel about Montreal during the not-so-halcyon era of a couple of decades ago when gangs and girls made rum-running and slot machines big business.from the 1950 editionRonald J.
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Author:Cooke, Ronald
,Busby, Brian
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Author:Morissette, Guillaume
Summary:Set in Montreal, New Tab spans a year in the life of a twenty-six year old videogame designer as he attempts to reset his life, in the process chronicling with humor disillusion, boredom, self-dest
Genre: General fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Solway, David
Summary:Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landsca
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Haugland, Bill
Summary:A Ty Davis Mystery. A bloody battle between rival motorcycle gangs leads television reporter Ty Davis into yet another dangerous encounter with a big-city’s underworld.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction), Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Colistro, Vincent
Summary:“I was only born into the world,” begins one of Vincent Colistro’s poems, “didn’t invade it, didn’t ransom it for a nicer one.” Late Victorians, Colistro’s debut, is a beguilingly irreverent invest
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Kindellan-Sheehan, Sheila
Summary:Teenagers accidentally discover the body of a university student at the bottom of the abandoned Wellington Tunnel.
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Author:Wingate, Shoshanna
Summary:Radio Weather confronts the changeableness of life—how existence can switch gears with the speed of announced-for snow that turns abruptly to rain.
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Pettersen, Geneviève
,Smith, Neil
Summary:Winner, 2015 Archambault Prize The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, drugs, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain.
Genre: Bildungsromans, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Moore, Robert
Summary:Taking its inspiration from the Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask!”, Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the dri
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Prior, Michael
Summary:A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds.
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Lista, Michael
Summary:The Scarborourgh takes place over three days in 1992: Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday—the weekend 15-year-old Kristin French was abducted and murdered by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolk
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Matuk, Nyla
Summary:In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity markers.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Lanthier, Kateri
Summary:Siren, Kateri Lanthier’s astonishing second book, calls us to attention.
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Sanderson, Douglas
Summary:It was cold; bitterly paralysingly cold. There was a dampness in the air that bit into the marrow of your bones and stayed there.
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Author:Rubin, Talya
Summary:St. Kilda is a barren, rocky archipelago 60 km off the west coast of Scotland. In 1930, harsh conditions led the islands’ remaining 36 inhabitants to relocate to the mainland.
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats: