National Network for Equitable Library Service

Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour.

Pertice McIlveen, a young Ontario woman who loves Hemingway and hates hats, receives a mysterious key in the mail.

1920. La guerre a pris fin il y a deux ans déjà, mais cela ne signifie pas pour autant une trêve au sein de la famille Pelletier...

1916. Une vieille fille pour s'occuper des parents ; un fils qui aime un peu trop la bouteille ; un autre, ordonné prêtre malgré lui ; une mère qui en impose autant qu'elle peut...

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade.

In a support group for bereaved parents, Shayla, Lyle, Linee, and Jed each fight their personal demons in the search for life after the death of one's child.

As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter’s artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant.

For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known.