Fiction, Historical
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Two Nights in Berlin
by Patricia McDermott
“She always felt her mother was in some ways ‘borrowed’ from another country and culture, that she had an early life she never shared with her family.” When Anna travels to Berlin to scatter her mother’s ashes on the grave of her Jewish fiancé...
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The Implausible Journey of Fanny Wheeler
by Patricia Ann McKnight
A Woman’s Quest to Become a Doctor in the 1890s Seventeen-year-old Fanny Wheeler—a bright, small-town girl from Kansas—cannot fathom a life of cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing. She needs more. She dreams of curing illness and preventing...
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His Majesty's Sailor and the Girl in the Blue Coat
by Michael D Gilston
It’s the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and...
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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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Collected Short Stories
2nd Edition by Sinai C. Hamada
No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada’s Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed...
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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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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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Destroying Max
by Robert Sanderson
Montreal, 1960. Max Marchand’s life is seemingly perfect. He has a beautiful wife, Erin, and together with their four teenaged children, they live in a large house in Westmount—Montreal’s most desirable neighbourhood. Max is successful in his...
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I Am Able to Tell You Now
by Bill Kennedy
As he nears retirement, high school history teacher Ben Henry finds himself thinking more and more about his elderly parents and the loss of family history through the passage of time. With his grandson, Michael, approaching an age where military...
