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Canadian fiction

  • The Iowa Baseball confederacy
    Author:
    Kinsella, W. P.
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  • The invention of the world
    Author:
    Hodgins, Jack
    Summary:

    Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a “land’s...
  • The girl before, the girl after
    Author:
    Hébert, Louis-Philippe
    Summary:

    The Girl Before, the Girl After is the story of a man who would rather remain anonymous. The boutique where used to work has been condemned, and so has the house where he rented a room, torn down to make way for a luxury hotel. His...
  • The Englishman's boy
    Author:
    Vanderhaeghe, Guy
    Summary:

    "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. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the...
  • The elephant talks to God
    Author:
    Estey, Dale
    Summary:

    The Elephant Talks to God is an endearing collection of whimsical tales in which a young elephant forages for answers to that age-old existential puzzle: What is the meaning of life? In this new edition of Dale Estey’s best-selling book...
  • The double hook
    Author:
    Watson, Sheila
    Summary:

    In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that...
  • The dance of Shiva
    Author:
    Deverell, William
    Summary:

    Twenty members of a cult are found massacred on an isolated island on Canada's West Coast. Their leader, Shiva Ram Acharya, is brought to trial, and the great Arthur Beauchamp defends him, assisted by his junior counsel Max Macarthur....
  • The Carnivore
    Author:
    Sinnett, Mark
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2010 Toronto Book Award

    The Carnivore is a historical novel of disaster and betrayal, set in the Toronto of both 1954 and 2004.

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, a young cop, Ray Townes,...
  • The Boy Must Die
    Author:
    Redfern, Jon
    Summary:

    A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It's the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy's death shocks...
  • The black peacock : a novel
    Author:
    Manley, Rachel
    Summary:

    Friends since attending university in Jamaica, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other. But Lethe is Daniel's muse, and theirs is a connection that proves unbreakable as they spend the next thirty...
  • The Americans are coming
    Author:
    Curtis, Herb
    Summary:

    An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for...
  • Swann
    Author:
    SHIELDS, Carol
    Summary:

    Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how...
  • Strange heaven
    Author:
    Coady, Lynn, Endicott, Marina
    Summary:

    Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall Award. Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Fiction. She's depressed, they say....
  • Sous l’aile du corbeau
    Author:
    Ferguson, Trevor
    Summary:

    Sous l’aile protectrice du chef de la tribu des Corbeaux, deux hommes, hantés par le souvenir d’une jeune fille assassinée, se lancent dans une chasse à l’homme effrénée, mais se retrouvent bientôt traqués eux-mêmes par Morgan, l’homme...
  • Soudain le minotaure
    Author:
    Poitras, Marie-Hélène
    Summary:

    Novembre, un soir de neige et de violence. Dans un appartement de Montréal, une rencontre qui n’aurait jamais dû avoir lieu. Le quotidien bouleversé par l’ar­rivée d’un être venu appor­ter la peur en cadeau. Quelques mois plus tard,...
  • Shadowlands
    Author:
    David, Charlie
    Summary:

    Shadowlands is a collection of heartfelt and sometimes heartbreaking short stories from well-known actor and entrepreneur Charlie David that explore the passion and pain of gay sexuality. Ancient myths are re-imagined with an exciting...
  • Shade
    Author:
    Herrera, Mia
    Summary:

    After her plans for the future are disrupted by an unexpected breakup, Benni, born and raised in northern Ontario, seeks escape from her everyday routine by visiting her father in the Philippines – the fantastical land of ghosts and...
  • Savage love : stories
    Author:
    Glover, Douglas H
    Summary:

    An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013, and a Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013, Longlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

    Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one...
  • Salut King Kong
    Author:
    Moser, Elise
    Summary:

    Taking its title from a story in the collection, this anthology brings together the best prose writing in Quebec—all short pieces—from the winners and finalists of the last three years of the Quebec Writing Competition. Montreal’s CBC...
  • Russian Dolls Stories from the Breathing Castle
    Author:
    Kinsella, W. P.
    Summary:

    Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed "unreliable narrator", as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the "...

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