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A bevy of colorful characters cross paths with each other in this novel about Montreal's garment district and its Orthodox Jewish community.

Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home.

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

Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life.

David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably.

Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm.

The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately following the wedding ceremony.

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.

A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre - in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer - as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression

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.

Mort Halbman is the prime suspect in an arson investigation when his family home burns down, and he feels compelled to continually return to the ruins and to the memories the place still holds for

"With nowhere to turn, penniless widow Grace Yoder travels with her young son to the Amish community of Seven Poplars.

An account of the holy war, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul.

With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Milvern and his wife Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, frie