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When Barnabas Bigfoot shows himself to humans, he and his fellow sasquatches must flee their mountain home to avoid the curious baldfaces.

Fourteen year-old Summer Widden has just received the best Christmas present of her life - Coach Nola named her captain of the basketball team. Several girls on her team are furiously jealous.

On the small fictional island of Sweetland, just south of Newfoundland, a former lighthouse keeper becomes the last man standing when he refuses to accept a government resettlement package, much to

Spring 2010. Harriet works in local radio in London, England. Her husband, Michael, stuck in New York, travels to Toronto to stay with an old flame.

"Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant - wise in the culture of comic books - is both hilarious

September, 1983.

Henry Hayward is a drowning man.

Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC.