Winner, Quiddity Award for Best Book Trailer. Shortlisted, Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and QWF First Book Prize. You're the kind of guy who falls in love after one date. Marginalized and alienated, perennial fuck-up Lee...
Canadian wit and humor
- Author:Harris, DougSummary:
- Author:Reid, IainSummary:
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation...
- Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:
Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of...
- Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
The Stump Farm, by Robert J. Adams, follows the trials of Bobby during the time Canada brought its soldiers back from the Second World War. The hardships of the time go unnoticed by a young boy more concerned with genuine moose hide...
- Author:Braithwaite, Max.Summary:
Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet...
- Author:LEACOCK, StephenSummary:
A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town. This is a gentle journey through a past era, filled with quiet humour and insightful observations of the human condition.
- Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
Stories from a Canadian fish and wildlife officer.
- Author:ORKIN, Mark M.Summary:
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
"Readers are invited to witness first hand Dumant family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking, and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins to unfold. It is her...
- Author:LEACOCK, StephenSummary:
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.
- Author:Wyatt, RachelSummary:
Three women with time on their hands tackle a charitable cause in this novel about the pleasures of worshipping someone from afar, and the difficulties in trying to make the world a better place.
Dorothy Graham writes unsent...
- Author:SnookSummary:
How Ya Gettin’On? is how downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, corner boy Snook says hello. He’s been hanging around, telling yarns, and having a laugh for over thirty years now, and this is his welcome for you to read all about...
- Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
A memoir from an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan.
- Author:Freed, JoshSummary:
Latest hilarious collection from Leacock prize-winner! There’s only one antidote to our speed-crazed, tech-obsessed, gluten-sensitive, password-plagued, financially-jittery, fitness-phobic, fatness-fearing world—and that’s laughter. He...
- Author:Thrice, MarkSummary:
This hilarious collection of the best and funniest columns published by syndicated humor columnist Mark Thrice takes an entertaining look at "normal" everyday life-from husbanding to parenting to holding down the job that is paying for...
- Author:Pike, GrandpaSummary:
Humorous, inspiring, and sometimes thought-provoking stories
The subject of outhouses must be handled delicately. So we will tiptoe around it, moving from foot to foot, like you would—and you do—when you need to “go” and there is...
- Author:Nicol, EricSummary:
- Author:Nicol, Eric, Whalley, PeterSummary:
Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged bravely breaks new ground in ignoring this question. The book concentrates on the...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
- Author:Sorensen, SueSummary:
Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...