At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. The stories of each circle around points of...
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Author: DeGrace, AnneSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction
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Author: Manley, RachelSummary:
"Friends since attending university together in Jamacia, Lethe and Daniel realized long ago that they would never be good for each other, but their connection proves unbreakable as they spend the...
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Author: Smith, Michael V.Summary:
Cumberland is an industrial town located halfway between Ottawa and Montreal on the shore of the St. Lawrence River. It's facing the close of its factories and mills in the wake of the North...
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Author: Senior, OliveSummary:
When her house in the Jamaican countryside is damaged by a hurricane, Gertrude Samphire is sent by her estranged daughter Celia to Ellesmere Lodge, an assisted living centre. Gertrude is...
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Author: Cole, TrevorSummary:
Major League Baseball player Zep Baker gets help from a neuroscience researcher in order to pursuade his wife to take him back in a 'brain-versus-heart' love debate.
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Author: Charney, AnnSummary:
Nerina is living in Venice after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, is looking for a way to move to America. She successfully adapts to the social and professional expectations of working with...
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Author: Hotte, Lucie, Paré, François, Carrière, Marie, Holtz, Grégoire, Kellett, Kathleen, Ladouceur, Louise, Morency, Jean, Sing, Pamela, Thibault, Jimmy, Tremblay, EmmanuelleSummary:
« Les littératures de l’exiguïté, dont font partie les ensembles littéraires franco-canadiens, restent fascinées par les sémantiques de l’espace. Elles en oublient leur longue histoire et...
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Author: Clark, Heather A.Summary:
Explore the true resilience of the heart and our raw determination to find goodness in a world fraught with adversity
One Woman’s Courage in the face of personal tragedy...
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Author: Bennett, JonathanSummary:
Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere...
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Author: Helprin, MarkSummary:
Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to...
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Author: Tolstoy, Leo.Summary:
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the...
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Author: Wharton, EdithSummary:
Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with...
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Author: Kincaid, JamaicaSummary:
Lucy, a teenager from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis, Mariah, and their children. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful...
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Author: Bush, Harold K.Summary:
The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995....
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Author: Langley, Dawn RenoSummary:
Natalie DeAngelo lost everything when her two sons were killed in a school shooting. For relief from her loss, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. Still battling...
Genre: General fiction