Fiction
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Penelope’s Odyssey
by Tina Nicodemo
Penelope’s big-city dreams aren’t turning out exactly as she planned. When she moved away from her family and their small business, she envisioned a life creating fantastical events and taking advantage of all the things New York has to offer. She ...
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Conspiracy
by Britnye Johnston
Nick Raven is starting at the Supernatural Academy for the Gifted against all odds. Back at the Slayer Academy, he was up against rigged examinations and fearsome opponents, and life at his new school is not a walk in the park either. He’s been sent ...
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Not the Fourth of July
by Pierre Lafarge
Financial analyst Marc Lafarge is a workaholic who has been putting in countless hours for a stockbroking firm in Calgary when he stumbles upon a nefarious plot. The Canadian firm he’s been working for, on his secondary industrial sector project, is ...
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The Whisper of the Breeze from Pine Trees and Flowing Streams
by Jishim Nam
On the day of her orientation ceremony to start university, Jaun runs into the young Monk Hyegang, an old friend, who has a gift for her, a rosary, from his guardian, Monk Dasol. Upon thanking him for the gift, Jaun is surprised and curious to learn ...
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Miss Putnam's Garden
by Margaret Schweitzer
Growing up in rural Ontario, Shirley knows how difficult life can be. With an abusive father and a loving but ailing mother, she relies on her farm and a lot of hard work to survive. While enduring economic downturns, harsh winters, and a world war, ...
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The Spanish Note
by Rosemary Doyle
In 1970, a university student named Sophie discovers a cache of old letters from Spain, along with a love note in Spanish, in her grandmother Maggie’s attic. Thus begins Sophie’s long quest to solve the mystery of their origin. The letters transport ...
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Drownproofing
by Karen Lea Armstrong
As a longtime maternity nurse at a Northern Ontario hospital, Bets has experienced the daily creation of new families. Yet this sixty-something “matriarch” of the hospital has only experienced personal loss; most recently, her husband Raz. When she ...
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A Girl's Paradise Lost
A Story of a Girl Growing Up in Love, Peace and War by Nawal Halawa
Sitt Zubaida’s idyllic childhood on the al-Ajami Beach in Jaffa is nothing short of paradise. She spends her days with her loving family and with the enchanting sea, and spends her nights reading novels, immersing herself in stories of romance. But ...
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Change Of Heart
by M. Proctor
Karen is content with her peaceful, predictable life in a small northwestern Canadian mountain town. Life has been unfolding just as she planned . . . until suddenly, it isn’t. One day, when she goes to wake her daughter, she finds her unconscious. ...
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Sweet, Lovely, Attentive
by K. W. Jeppesen
Arm has just arrived in Minnesota from Thailand, excited for his first semester of university in America and to leave some painful parts of his past behind. Exhausted after his long flight (and almost having his bags stolen), he quickly passes out ...
