Fiction, Literary
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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...
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Feed The Crocodiles
by Catherine Davis
VIVIAN HUNT travels to 1960s Uganda to reunite with her husband. An unexpected letter in her mail box leads to her involvement in a series of events which will have unexpected consequences. Unbeknown to everyone involved times are changing and...
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Jackie Jazz
by John Ennis
“It’s not what you’re going to do with your life, but what you’re going to do in your life that matters.” From its complex harmony and syncopated beats to its rhythm, heart and soul, for Jackie Cavanagh, jazz has become a part of his very core....
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The Aim of Art
Corrected Edition by T. G. Colbert
How does a straight soldier come home from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his cherished souvenir? The answer is the story of Michael Lenihan, an orphan with an eighth-grade education who spent the Great Depression on...
