"Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life. Church, marriage to a steady young man, children - her fortunes are already laid out for her, as are the shiny modern...
Women
- Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:
- Author:Aubert, RosemarySummary:
Set in a decade before Twitter and Facebook, Terminal Grill introduces a woman to her perfect stranger. Looks, style and wit make him irresistible and hopping into a cab with him — inevitable. However, first impressions are never what...
- Author:Alexander, Sally HobartSummary:
The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults.
- Author:Brolis, Maria Teresa, Constable, Giles, Cardini, Franco, Myerson, JoyceSummary:
Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in Europe, not all women fit the stereotype of passive housewife and mother. Many led bold and dynamic lives. In this collection of historical portraits, Maria Teresa Brolis tells the...
- Author:McKay, S. NoëlSummary:
Stony Point tells the story of a woman who succeeds in doing things at a time when custom restricts her from doing anything. In 1903, shortly after the Frank slide, a newspaper reporter vanishes from a mining town in the...
- Author:Maureen Fitzgerald, Guberman, Connie, Wolfe, MargieSummary:
Still Ain't Satisfied - Canadian women certainly aren't! And this collection of twenty-seven articles on the major women's issues of the decade shows why feminists have only begun to fight. Women are still paid less than their male...
- Author:Haines, RayanneSummary:
Isabella Caro, born in Florence at the de-occupation of Italy in WW2 is a woman shaped by the resilience of her country and a thirst for knowledge. In this fictional Novel-in-Verse we take a journey through one woman's life, told...
- Author:Zailckas, KorenSummary:
- Author:NICHOLSON, VirginiaSummary:
Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.
- Author:BAN BREATHNACH, SarahSummary:
Simple Abundance shows you how your life can be an expression of your authentic self. 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.
- Author:Hilderbrand, ElinSummary:
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, this novel delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
- Author:Dower, TriciaSummary:
Silent Girl explores the experiences of unforgettable characters as they follow trajectories unimagined by Shakespeare, including a young girl who is unwittingly sold to traffickers after losing her mother in the 2004 tsunami...
- Author:West, LindySummary:
Lindy West is a catalyst for a national conversation in a world where not all stories are created equal and not every body is treated with equal respect. Shrill is comprised of a series of essays that bravely shares her life, including...
- Author:Hanrahan, MauraSummary:
On the cusp of the Depression, Sheilagh Driscoll of isolated Rennie’s Bay nearly dies while giving birth prematurely to baby Leah. Sheilagh is attended by a traditional Mi’kmaq midwife, Mrs. Mary, as well as by Leah Clarke, a nurse-...
- Author:Foster, CarolynSummary:
She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada. Elizabeth Ruth, Heather Birrell, Kristen den Hartog, Kelly Watt, Dana Bath, Teresa McWhirter and others make up this brilliant new collection of emerging literary voices...
- Author:Millett, KateSummary:
Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, the author demonstrates how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her work rocked the foundations of...
- Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:
"It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post,...
- Author:Giroux, ClaireSummary:
Cet ouvrage émouvant n’est pas de ceux qu’on dévore en une soirée pour les refiler ensuite à quelqu’un d’autre. C’est plutôt un livre de chevet. De ceux qu’on aime savoir à portée de main, car tôt ou tard, on aura envie d’y revenir pour...
- Author:Adler, Susan S.Summary:
Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-new century, a time when new ideas and inventions are changing everyone's lives. Samantha's own world is filled with elegance and...
- Author:MUNRO, AliceSummary:
At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her...