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After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless.

A story of friendship between sister and their Japanese American school mate.

From the author of the bestselling Jalna series. Shaw Manifold is a born forester, of hardy stock.

When her mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jayce searches for her estranged father, hoping he can fix everything. Jayce Loewen has had to take on a lot of responsibility over the years.

A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.

A single mother. An abandoned farmhouse. An epic battle with the northern wilderness.

David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public.

In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers.

Behind each tightly locked apartment door at rundown 64 Wilnut Street lie the hidden stories of the inhabitants.

That Summer in Franklin explores the lives of Hannah Norcroft and Colleen Pinser, and the trauma and heartbreak of dealing with parents affected by dementia and alcoholism.

Growing up in the shadow of a famous mother, Clara has never felt good about her body. Now, at sixteen, she has an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one.

Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J.

"Haunting... To read The Good Negress is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly." -Los Angeles Times Book Review.

In this “witty, perceptive novel”, a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood (Elle).