All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability...
Women
- Author:Patriarca, GiannaSummary:
- Author:Rushing, Jane GilmoreSummary:
Granny Albright's time has come and relatives have gathered to say goodbye to the matriarch. Linda Kay has recently married into the family, and tries to do her part to help. But when Cousin Herman arrives, feelings of resentment and...
- Author:Converse, CathySummary:
The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC's first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist. Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in Victoria in 1863, she was the first female...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are...
- Author:Macdonald, Ann-MarieSummary:
Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young...
- Author:Dekker, TedSummary:
A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
While their men fight on far-flung battlefields, America's women help produce what's necessary for victory. In a Michigan shipyard, four female co-workers forge strong bonds of friendship.
- Author:Rum, EtafSummary:
Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with...
- Author:Whitlock, NathanSummary:
A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who...
- Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:
Montréal, avenue du Parc, rue Saint-Viateur. Des passants se croisent, vont et viennent, anonymes dans la foule. L’art subtil de Mary Soderstrom consiste à nous faire pénétrer dans l’intimité de ces inconnus qui semble, au premier abord...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. On this quilter's holiday, Master Quilter...
- Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:
Fils du châtelain de Grimston Way, l’aristocrate Rogan Chantry s’est démené pour gagner son indépendance de Sir Julien Bley et de la Société britannique en Afrique du Sud. À présent, sa recherche d’un mystérieux dépôt d’or, dont l’...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit...
- Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn...
- Author:Lundell, MargoSummary:
An easy-to-read version of the remarkable and inspiring story of Helen Keller and her special teacher, Annie Sullivan. UEB Braille Grade 2 14 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
- Author:Lee, Chang-raeSummary:
Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
- Author:IBSEN, HenrikSummary:
A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and...
- Author:Ibsen, HenrikSummary:
- Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has...
- Author:Shardy, RebekahSummary:
Do things you've never thought of... or the things you secretly wish to do. Author Rebekah Shardy challenges the open-minded women to do things they've never tried-or dared-to do before. It's the perfect gift for any woman, whether she...