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  • Will Starling
    Author:
    Weir, Ian
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    Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Longlisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. From the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about...
  • West by northwest British Columbia short stories
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  • Voice-over
    Author:
    Corbeil, Carole
    Summary:

    After experiencing the disintegration of their parents’ marriage, Claudine and Janine Beaulieu’s lives are further complicated when their mother Odette remarries an Anglophone and they are forced to “turn English.” Now, years later,...
  • Vertigo
    Author:
    Uppal, Priscila
    Summary:

    This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
  • Un soir de juin
    Author:
    Pontbriand, Claire
    Summary:

    Agrippée aux hanches de Yann, grisée par le vent et ses dix-sept ans, elle se sentait invincible sur la moto. Tout lui était permis. La journée était encore chaude. Je portais mes nouveaux pantalons fuchsia. Leur couleur vibrait dans la...
  • Un secret de polichinelle
    Author:
    Bonin, Jean-François
    Summary:

    Récit, conte ou sotie, Un secret de Polichinelle est une jubilante allégorie dans laquelle Jean-François Bonin donne libre cours à sa fantaisie. Trois joyeux lurons, Mylène, Émile et Rock-Igor, s’y moquent allègrement des travers de...
  • Un garçon maladroit
    Author:
    Wolf, Marc-Alain
    Summary:

    Il ne se fait guère remarquer, il est plutôt du genre à se fondre dans le décor. Il a pourtant un physique particulier, une drôle de tête, une façon bien à lui de se déplacer dans l’espace et de fuir le regard du monde. Il sursaute...
  • Train d’enfer
    Author:
    Ferguson, Trevor
    Summary:

    1964. Aux confins de la taïga, des ouvriers construisent le chemin de fer du Grand-Lac-des-Esclaves dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. C’est une véritable ruée vers l’or. Et l’occasion de s’en mettre plein les poches, pour quelques-uns...
  • Through different eyes
    Author:
    Charleson, Karen
    Summary:

    Everyone knows everyone's business in the small fishing community of Kitsum. So when young Brenda Joe fears she might be pregnant, she also worries that rumours will spread quickly. Things look up when Brenda's favourite aunt...
  • The worlds within her : a novel
    Author:
    Bissoondath, Neil
    Summary:

    This beautiful novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Casual Brutality and The Innocence of Age, joins politics and love in a powerful story set in both the Caribbean and Canada. Neil Bissoondath draws us...
  • The wanton troopers
    Author:
    Nowlan, Alden
    Summary:

    In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores. Family relationships, sexual confusions, and the...
  • The three Marys
    Author:
    Coady, Lynn
    Summary:

    Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it...
  • The Show that Smells
    Author:
    McCormack, Derek
    Summary:

    The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen! It’s also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a...
  • The sea
    Author:
    Marin, Amela
    Summary:

    In The Sea, Amela Marin takes the universal story of Exodus and pares it down to a seemingly simple allegory, in which a mother places her two children in her pockets and attempts to leave her besieged city, walk across war-ravaged...
  • The republic of nothing
    Author:
    Choyce, Lesley, Peart, Neil
    Summary:

    A small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign anarchy reigns. A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it also takes away. The 1960s blaze off shore and draw the island's inhabitants into politics, the...
  • The Rage Mystery Series Bundle: Includes Lethal Rage and Savage Rage
    Author:
    Pilkey, Brent
    Summary:

    Lethal Rage follows the journey of Jack Warren, a young Toronto police officer, as he enters the dangerous streets of downtown's 51 Division. Accustomed to the white-bread policing of his previous division, Jack is staggered...
  • The Penguin book of contemporary Canadian women's short stories
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    Master short story writer and novelist Lisa Moore brings her talents to The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories, spanning the last two decades of the twentieth century to the present. An enthralling and...
  • The nettle spinner
    Author:
    Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn
    Summary:

    In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s visceral...
  • The Nearly Girl
    Author:
    De Nikolits, Lisa
    Summary:

    Fans of A Prayer for Owen Meany and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest will love this clever, fast-paced and enjoyable thriller. Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a 'normal life', showing...
  • The long November
    Author:
    Nablo, James Benson, Busby, Brian
    Summary:

    It descends with a challenge upon the censors, and yet this powerful story had to be told, for it is so much a part of a struggling, impetuous generation of youth in Canada. It is sometimes brazen, sometimes explosive, always face to...

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