"One summer, shortly after taking a step back from an illustrious journalism career, Ian Haysom found himself in charge of his first grandchild, Mayana, who was three at the time. As a healthy, energetic member of the baby-boom...
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Author: Haysom, IanSummary: - Author: Lamb, JamieSummary:
"Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada's most famous small town--Stephen Leacock's Mariposa? This was the world that journalist...
- Author: Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
In the mid 1890s, a whip toting cowgirl is bent on getting revenge on the man who murdered her brother. In the rough country outside Kamloops, B.C. she comes face to face with his killer.
- Author: Tregebov, MichaelSummary:
"When the smell of October's raked leaves gives way to that of morning frost, a mature Winnipeg man's fancy turns to thoughts of curling. But this fall Blackie Timmerman has been hogging stones off the ice. His wife of...
- Author: Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
- Author: Calder, HannahSummary:
"Piranesi's Figures is a romp through the magnificent psychological ruins of at least two marriages and one attempt at child rearing, and a gleefully reckless contortion of novelistic conventions, sexual practices, and family...
- Author: Altrows, RonaSummary:
Alarmed that Canada Post keeps losing money, Ariadne Jensen, a woman in her fifties, pitches the CEO with a scheme to save the corporation: she will get people to start writing and mailing letters again. As an inspiration to others,...
- Author: Conley, TimSummary:
"The short story form is unambiguously un dead in this new album of thirty fictions from Tim Conley, coming at the reader in a variety of shapes and guises running the gamut from elliptical micro fictions to tales of the...
- Author: Kirsch, SharonSummary:
"A lantern slide, a faded recipe book, a postcard from Mexico, a nugget of fool's gold -- such are the clues available to the narrator of The Smallest Objective as she excavates for buried treasure in her family home. Together...
- Author: Kloepfer, DavidSummary:
Cheap Thrills takes place over the course of a single weekend, beginning with the incessantly stoned Ethan and his roommate Phil discovering the body of their weed dealer in a Vancouver alley alongside a box of porno magazines and crime...
- Author: Cichosz, MariaSummary:
Cam and Beau are best friends, roommates, and massive potheads. Life is sweet, except for one crucial thing: Cam will never get up the nerve to tell Beau Larky he's in love with him. Cam is a man of thought, not action, and would...
- Author: Inglis, LukeSummary:
Earl Qume's poisoned mind has altered his reality and transformed his surroundings into omnipresent threats. After his wife kicks him out and he finds himself on the run from the law, he escapes the concrete confines of Toronto to...
- Author: Norman, Ron ; Norman, RonSummary:
Malcolm Bidwell is young, smart, and ambitious--and he's just been hired by mistake by newly elected Premier Steven Davis as his "go-to guy" for every political mess that needs cleaning up. And there are plenty of messes...
- Author: Macnair, LoganSummary:
When underachieving writer Larry Mann is granted the lucrative opportunity to ghostwrite the memoirs of the notorious and eccentric businessman-turned-politician Maxime Montblanc, he accepts immediately, tantalized by the financial...
- Author: Stewart, Michael F.Summary:
"A teenage filmmaker tries to track down the recipients of his twin sister's organs in hopes that it will help his parents move on from the loss of their daughter."--
- Author: Blennerhassett, PatrickSummary:
Cell: no service. Email: down. Internet: off. TV: nothing. Radio: static. Communication: minimal. Chaos: unstoppable. Press Any Key to Start. PR hack Tristan Schultz is buried deep in the endless code of Millennial life, slogging away...
- Author: Anderson-Dargatz, GailSummary:
In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery. Owning a bakery isn't just about making dough.
- Author: Chamberlain, PennySummary:
Inspired by a true incident of mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York in 2011-2012, Songs from a Small Town (In a Minor Key) is a novel written as a series of stories from different points of view. It examines a mysterious condition that...
- Author: Levy, JoanneSummary:
"A 12-year-old boy is frustrated that he's not able to do the things he loves because they're too "girly.""--
- Author: Manzer, JennySummary:
"In this novel for middle-graders, talented baseball player Caspar Cadman has a great arm and a big secret. He used to live life as a girl called Cassandra."--
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