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Life is close to perfect for Charlotte and Curtis Black, except that their son Matthew's girlfriend, Racquel, is eight months pregnant, and Racquel's mother, Vanessa, and Charlotte can't stand each

Jordan Gatewood made a huge mistake when he put his hands on Lonnie Adebayo, thinking he could get away with it, but he made an even bigger mistake by not making sure she was dead before he left th

Long-listed for the 2006 Re-Lit Award for Best Novel For 15-year-old Cathy Mugan, "a place apart" is where she longs to be: apart from her mother, an unhinged, uncontrollable terror who

Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People’s Choice Book Kataryna Baliuk, a gift

First published in 1949, in Mary Wakefield, the third book in the Jalna series, a young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip's motherless children.

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.

When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up.

First published in 1951, in Rennys Daughter, Adeline Whiteoak is voyaging overseas. It is now 1948, and she travels with her Uncle Finch and cousin Maurice to Ireland and then London.

First published in 1954, in Variable Winds at Jalna, the immediate sequel to Rennys Daughter, Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance b

"I knew one thing – I wasn’t going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead.

Angela Wroboski has recently moved with her mother from their small hometown into the city to rid them of a dark past.

First published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne.

Originally published in 1941, Wakefield’s Course begins in the spring of 1939 at Jalna.

First published in 1953, in The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation.

First published in 1946, in Return to Jalna, the Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers, Renny, and Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second World War.