The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre....
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Author: Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Jance, Judith A.Summary:Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn...
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Author: Ray, JeanneSummary:Feeling unattractive and unappreciated as she enters her fifties, wife and mother Clover wakes up one morning and discovers that she has actually become invisible, a condition that goes unnoticed...
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Author: Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:Andrea and her brother travel back to the most dangerous part of her grandfather's past, in Chicago.
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Block, Francesca Lia.Summary:Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat.
Genre: Young adult fiction, Short stories -
Author: Lohans, AlisonSummary:
The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so...
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Author: Clinton, ChrisSummary:Peter is an expert canoeist, attempting to follow the explorers' paths to the Artic. Sara is a novice, seeking adventure and a change from her boring life in London, England. They come together in...
Genre: General fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Haigh, J. C.Summary:The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that...
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Author: Kallio, WayneSummary:Tells the true story of this middle-class couple's face-to-face battle with schizophrenia.
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Author: Driedger, WilliamSummary:
Humorous tales of life in the fictional Mennonite colony of Rosenheim during the Great Depression.
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Author: Kaminsky, Stuart M.Summary:The body of a middle-aged man is found in the elevator of a ritzy doorman building on the Upper East Side. Mac Taylor and Aiden Burn's initial investigation yields no bullets, no DNA evidence, and...
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Author: Collins, Max AllanSummary:After a room-service waiter stumbles across a killer and a body, Homicide cop Jim Brass summons forensic investigator Gil Grissom and his staff--including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, and...
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Author: Park, JeffSummary:This striking volume effortlessly draws the reader in, exhaling the vitality of music greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Miles Davis and many more. Here is a book for both...
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Author: McDonald, AnneSummary:Alex was in harmony with the water. He taught himself to swim and liked working the sea but always yearned for something more. His brother Reggie despised it all and yearned to escape. Mercy Coles...
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Bechtel, GregSummary:In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us....
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories