In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis. Zoe, a budding historian, comes to Malta with her younger brother Cal to learn more...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Brodoff, Ami SandsSummary: -
Author:Dickinson, Mary LouSummary:Shortly after the first referendum on Quebec separation, four people in their forties encounter each other in Ile d’Or, the town where all of them grew up. The novel is about gold and greed and renewal and hope. About people who emerge...
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Author:Windley, CarolSummary:From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of...
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Author:Wolf, Marc-AlainSummary:Ils sont donc là, tous les deux, occupant leur banc, plus tout à fait bipèdes, plus tout à fait verticaux. Ils flottent dans des vêtements qu’ils ont habités naguère avec plus de noblesse. Leurs misères physiologiques ne les ont pas...
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Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers carrying on a grand tradition. A high-powered RCMP inspector obsessed with their capture. A day-dreaming police scientist caught in a dilemma between the call of duty and his infatuation with a...
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Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:Bullets squared everything. Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate. Wilson held up his end of the bargain and stayed off the grid for two years. Two years of peace until a man came calling. The man brought a gun...
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Author:Smith, VanessaSummary:Why is desire so irresistible? This is the question that faces Grace, a rebellious young dreamer who takes a long-awaited leap of faith when she meets a charismatic stranger. Told through the eyes of the central character, Grace...
- Author:Heroux, JasonSummary:
What if your best friend’s ghost was still hanging around town? What if your girlfriend mysteriously lost her voice and didn’t seem to care? What if a strangely independent pigeon started following you wherever you went? These are the...
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Author:Baggio, AllisonSummary:Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone a bit more interesting, but...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
“Your life story didn’t begin with you. It reaches back to the beginning of time. You rose from the bodies of your ancestors. You’re the witness to their existence.”
There is nothing more alive than the sea, nothing more deadly...
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Author:Guenther, LisaSummary: -
Author:Guenther, LisaSummary:As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a...
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Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets
Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling...
- Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:
A bond between a young girl and an abandoned baby encompasses eastern and western Canada, from 1890s Toronto to the Regina Cyclone.
A historical novel that chronicles the life of Gladdie McConnell and her seemingly mysterious...
- Author:Delisle, Jeanne-ManceSummary:
Les deux nouvelles de ce recueil nous entraînent sur les traces de deux prospecteurs. Jalonnant le territoire abitibien, ces titans au cœur fragile, passionnés et rebelles, martèlent la roche à la recherche de l’or et nous emportent...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past...
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Author:Cronenberg, CassandraSummary:Itessa is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and as her marriage unravels we follow her in and out of denial that her marriage is over and into a world of drugs and fantasies about other men and other lives she could have lived. As...
- Author:Laurence, Margaret, Lavoie, CarolineSummary:
Ghana, 1956. Nous sommes à la veille de l’indépendance. Nathaniel Amegbe est professeur dans une école ghanéenne plutôt médiocre. Johnnie Kestoe est comptable dans une firme textile britannique à Accra. Les deux hommes s’affronteront...
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Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
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Author:Cain, R. D.Summary:Nastos returns on the case of a missing teen, a sadistic abuser, and a race against time
Nastos built his police career by channeling his own shadowy instincts to hunt dangerous predators. Now disgraced and off the force...
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