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The Far End
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Growing up on her family's wildlife ranch in rural Northern California, sixteen-year-old Persephone Foss felt a strong connection to animals from a very early age. Lately, however, that connection has been showing itself in strange, even scary,...
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The God Strand
Unearthing the Code
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Beneath the streets of Nazareth, a routine archaeological dig uncovers a hidden chamber untouched for two thousand years. Inside is a finely crafted wooden chest containing items powerful enough to ignite a global race for possession. Forensic...
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Let the Sufi Flout
Surviving the Summer of ’57 in the Yukon
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At home in Toronto in 1997, sixty-year-old Maude Thorvaldson is jolted back to the most pivotal chapter of her life when a radio interview with an old friend unlocks a rush of Yukon memories—and the girl she used to be. It’s the summer of 1957,...
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A Part and the Whole
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Over the English Channel, on a cliff in Sussex known as a popular suicide site, a person was found later identified as Paul, a Canadian born in Poland. Paul is alive, but he does not remember anything, he does not know who he is and who he was....
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The Price We Pay
Grief is the price we pay for love. By sharing the burden, we can find peace and joy to temper the pain.
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In the wake of profound loss, grief becomes a journey of transformation for a diverse group of individuals seeking solace, understanding, and healing. Five years after the devastating loss of her son, Colleen Friesen—a compassionate woman no...
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Premonitions of the Ghost
A Collection of Offbeat Fiction
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A jigsaw puzzle in a cryptic antique shop reveals an uncanny power. A patrol officer chases a phantom pickup truck to a tragic end along a bustling Ontario highway. An out-of-left-field baseball card influences a charitable sense of honour. An...
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Where Time Stands Still
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Jamie should have known something was up when he stumbled in out of the snow and they’d saved him a cup of coffee. For the city-worn Montrealer, the village of Sneaky Hollow is a badly needed breath of fresh air, but it’s also, he begins to...
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Nevermore
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Her husband’s death was supposed to end her torment. But it was just the beginning. When schoolteacher Rachael Benson convinces her controlling and abusive husband to vacation on a secluded island that once belonged to her grandparents, she hopes...
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The Poet's Wife
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Eighteen-year-old Yiorgos is desperate to escape the bounds of tradition and his father’s iron fist. As a child, writing poetry and roaming his beloved mountains on the island of Crete provided some reprieve, but now he is slated for mandatory...
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violet
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Janey June Jamieson grew up with her parents and younger sister, Ellie, on the idyllic Shag Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. When the girls are sent to the mainland to finish high school, they find themselves in the centre of a social web...
