Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond in the small town of Seep during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a visiting team of barnstorming...
Pastoral fiction
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Author:Giles, W. MarkSummary: - Author:Doshi, TishaniSummary:
Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance-a property on the isolated beaches south of Madras-and discovers a...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
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... Voilà un authentique échantillon de la...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
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... De nombreux hommes sont rentrés au pays marqués à jamais par les combats, comme le fiancé d...
- Author:READ, MissSummary:
Miss Read, the village school teacher, relates the events of one particular summer.
- Author:Willard, ChristopherSummary:
An unsettling secret joins husband and wife as they sift through layers of recollection in a quest to find comfort, philosophical acceptance, and ultimately forgiveness. Set on a family farm in Sundre, Alberta during the late 1960s, at...
- Author:Perron, JeanSummary:
« Des chevaux blancs, bruns et noirs apparaissent ici et là, détendus. On ne saurait dire s’ils font partie d’élevages ou s’ils vivent à l’état sauvage. Rien ne semble délimiter ce vaste territoire chargé d’énergie tellurique. Aucune...
- Author:O'Brian, PatrickSummary:
Three Bear Witness. John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving, pudding-obsessed father. Nor...
- Author:Hawkins, KarenSummary:
Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books live, breathe, and sometimes even speak. As the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however...
- Author:Russell, Ted, Miller, ElizabethSummary:
Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell’s stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and...
- Author:Lewis, BeverlySummary:
Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now...
- Author:BINCHY, MaeveSummary:
Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech tree which shades the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown. They have different lives but it was the school that formed them.
- Author:Anderson-Dargatz, GailSummary:
A tale of farm life featuring Beth, 15, as she milks the cows, shovels manure and fights off advances by boys and her father. But she welcomes the advances of an Indian girl from a reservation and an affair develops, opening her eyes to...
- Author:Whitson, Audrey J.Summary:
The book surrounds the death of Annie, who is the water diviner in a small Alberta farm town. It is told for the points of view of the townspeople, and even Annie, as they react to her death and reflect on her life. The town is going...
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
A magnificent 150-year saga of a musical Southern family featuring barn dances, medicine shows, the Grand Ole Opry, and the evolution of country music from hymns to rockabilly.
- Author:Ramos, JoanneSummary:
Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. "[Joanne] Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely."-O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019) Nestled in New...
- Author:Fawcett, BrianSummary:
Middle-aged Andy Bathgate clings to a precarious life in the logging town of Prince George, British Columbia. He fears the balance he currently enjoys will come undone the moment the truth comes out: that he is not, in fact, Andy...
- Author:Berkhout, NinaSummary:
Twyla Jane Lee has one goal. To finish senior year so she can get out of her military hometown of Halo, Montana. But to graduate, she needs to complete forty hours of community service, and that means helping out a rude and reclusive...
- Author:Raddall, Thomas H.Summary:
A Nova Scotia classic, The Nymph and the Lamp is the story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and sensitive woman, and the men in her life--the stoic Matthew Carney, a living legend, the passionate Gregory Skane, and the innocent but infatuated...
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