Fiction
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Cruising with Strangers
by Marsha Spink
A fter her travel partner is sidelined Marlene embarks on a cruise of the Hawaiian Islands, alone. An anxious, introverted widow, she has reservations about the solo trip but meets a number of interesting shipmates and soon finds herself...
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Two Worlds, One Soul
by Dianne De León
Meet Iliana and Luna: two professional Flamenco dancers who have enchanted and captured the hearts of their adoring fans. Iliana has long known of Luna, Spain’s own beloved gem. Luna will come to know her American counterpart (and realize she has...
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Leah
by Donald Granatstein
What happens when a family’s secret reveals a broader story of Jewish survival and loss? In Leah, a forgotten chapter of Toronto’s Jewish immigrant history comes to life. Nineteen-year-old Leah Granatstein arrived in Canada from Poland in the...
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Strawberry Hill
by Emily Morra
Family secrets are uncovered. We left Sunflower with Jack and Liv reunited and we pick up in Strawberry Hill a few years later. Then journey back in time, uncovering Carmen’s past, her secrets unfolding, suspicions confirmed, it all comes to...
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Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent by Sheonaid Kuchera
QUETZALCOATL: The Feathered Serpent is the origin myth of Mexico. In this story, Quetzalcoatl is driven out of Egypt by the deadly rage of his ambitious brother. He sails to the Yucatan and restarts life in a world recovering from a global...
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The Beings That Haunt
by Z.I. Rhodes
A would-be artist accepts a mysterious man’s lavish patronage in exchange for a very ordinary used car and gets a far stranger bargain than he expected. An embittered young woman wakes in a weird liminal world, watched over by a “guardian” who...
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The Law of Parsimony
by Michael Porteous
From rookie beat cop patrolling Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to rising through the ranks as a homicide detective, Mike St. James has gone from rubbing elbows with the desperately addicted to chasing professional killers, and taking on the city’s...
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The Homesteaders
by Brad Kuich
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future. Free land? Who could resist? Never mind the land wasn’t the government’s to give away,...
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The Last Letter
A Klondike Goldrush Murder Spawns a Dynasty...and Destroys a Family by Robert L. McIntyre
The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest. During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young...
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Remember, You Must Die.
by p.w. jones
Tim Scott, funeral director of the sunny (if slightly off-kilter) community of Swinging Palms, Florida, is used to the ebb and flow of local mortality. So when the death rate suddenly plummets, Tim notices. And when it suddenly surges, he really...