In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills even if the extreme steps taken by his battle-hardened mentor Herb, his police chief mom, and the other leaders in the name of security and...
Communities
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Author:Walters, EricSummary: - Author:McConvey, J.R.Summary:
Part dark satire, part surreal Gothic folktale, The Last Ham is a story about populist politics run amok in the age of illusion. Weeks before Easter in the sleepy town of Bedford, a macabre death coincides with the arrival of a stranger...
- Author:Keefer, Janice KulykSummary:
Summer 1960's. At northern Ontario's Kalyna Beach, Ukrainian-Canadian women are exchanging their 'racy' novels with one another, but real life provides a more interesting story. There is Sonia Martyn, unhappy because...
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Author:Friesen, AngnakulukSummary:The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on...
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Author:Mills, StephanieSummary:Bigger has not turned out better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot...
- Author:Dawson, JoanSummary:
Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone...
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Author:Block, PeterSummary:Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves. Businesses, social services, education, and health care each live within their own worlds. The same is true of individual citizens, who long for connection but end up...
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Author:Maracle, LeeSummary:Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.
- Author:Krishnaswami, Uma, Swaney, JuliannaSummary:
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her...
- Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
Better Together explores how people gather in groups of all kinds to fulfill the basic human need for companionship. From the smallest units of parents, siblings and friends to global organizations that try to build on a foundation of...
