Fiction
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An Unfound Door
by Nicholas Varner
In An Unfound Door, Gabe evolves from a shy, sickly loner to a thoughtful, empathetic young man as he makes his way through the turbulence of 1960s America, beginning a quest to understand the purpose of his existence and the mystery of his...
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The Gonna Find Love Club
by R.Thomas Roth
You know, Ben, I teach my students that Petrarch should have said something. He should have told Laura de Noves how he felt. He should have trusted her with his heart… before it was too late.” None of us get through life without being a little...
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The Healing Tree
by Frances Kelly
Ireland, 1546, and Saoirse Brennan, now Chieftain, is saddled with the care of ten-year-old Edmund Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. The dying king has named nine-year-old Edward Tudor as his successor, but palace intrigues to control...
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Externalities
by D. McCall Johnston
Tuscany, 1950. A chance encounter between two young people on the street marks the beginning of a whirlwind romance. Yolanda and Clemente Gallorini are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime as they begin to build a life together. No one...
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They Don't Make Studebakers Anymore
A Fictional Memoir by David Becker
I was born on the hood of a Studebaker . . . So begins the story of Boy, coming of age in a small town in the 1960s. From trying to understand the Cold War, to first kisses, and the moon landing, Boy struggles to make sense of his world. The...
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Malraux
Scent of the Viper by Ray Sproule
Matthew Thorne, a former Army intelligence officer fresh off an adventure in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, is sent to Morocco in 1959 on a perilous mission. As a favor to a shadowy éminence grise named Aristide, Thorne takes on the task of...
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The Silenced Path
by Maria Moore
Based on the true story of Getruda Peters, this poignant, unflinching novel exposes the abuse and neglect she suffered as a resident of a government-run institution in Ontario in the 1980s. After witnessing the brutal murder of her father,...
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River Becomes Shadow
by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
It is said that one day, wherever River walks, the earth will turn green again. In the dying wasteland that is rural Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the year 2036, this seems impossible. But where others see impossibilities, twelve-year-old...
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The Governor's Granddaughter
by Theresa Redmond
Margaret Gordon is born around the year 1800 on Prince Edward Island, a British colony under the shadow of her grandfather’s shameful political misdeeds and actions, leaving the Island’s settlers caught in an unjust landholding system and...
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A Plague of Death
by Grant N. Pierce
The whispers of the spectators on the street were rapidly evolving into cries of concern. The sky was alight with fire … Great globs of black ash rained down and clamped onto each tunic, each dress, covering them with black soot. Swiftly, the...
