Fiction, Literary
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Snow Bird
Chasing the Sunlight by Jason Thunder
Jason Thunder still remembers that red lollipop—baby's first sugar high. That day, the candy was shared amongst the cousins, and he slept close to his parents. He must have been teething; his father’s knuckle tasted like guitar strings, salt, and...
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The Deposits
by Corinne Tessier
This debut novel will have you pondering your attachment to physical objects and how these hold unexplainable power to connect you with others...have you considering how your energy and actions ripple across social divides and age differences,...
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Autumn
by Marc MacDonald
For Alex Chambers, the burden of past mistakes hinders his ability to move forward in life, stifling his readiness to embrace the present. His journey to Silver Springs Health and Rehabilitation Centre was meant to be a path to redemption, a...
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this is all we know
by Robin Anne Ettles
In this second collection of short stories, Ettles offers a version of the Canadian landscape against which eccentric tales and colourful characters evoke ever-shifting perspectives on what we see and who we are. A modern working woman of 1983...
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Sweet Memories
by N.K. Padua
Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until a...
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Bury Napoleon on Elba!
by James J Sebastian
Colonel Neil Campbell, the British Commissioner assigned to remain with Napoleon Bonaparte when he is exiled to the island of Elba, struggles with his moral failure, cowardice as he calls it, in having accepted an order to assassinate the...
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Bait and Switch
by Frances Schepp Ruh
Isabelle Chilton Chandler, Chicago-based author of a successful women’s mystery series, has always known exactly what she wants and how to get it. But when she starts working on a new book, inspiration—for the first time ever is painfully out of...
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A Garden of Her Own
by Kate Phelps
Amy James is a good wife and a good gardener. Married to renowned architect Graham James and employed as a part-time garden columnist, Amy has almost enough to keep her happy. Engaged in researching a new book—a collection of essays about women...
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All the Stars in the Sky
by Hubert E. Devine
It is 1950 in the seaport town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Celeste Alexander, the daughter of a poor lobster poacher, dreams of something more than the life she leads cleaning the houses of her wealthy neighbours. When opportunity comes knocking,...
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One Weekend in May
by Gordon F.D. Wilson
It is a bright, clear Saturday morning when Ken Graham’s ex-wife stumbles through the front gate of his sheep farm, having walked, inexplicably, from the hospice facility where she has been spending her last days. Lena, suffering through a rare...
