Fiction, Political
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The We're Still Here Book Club. Volume One: Elbows Up!
by Jeff Richardson
What is wrong with the world when the disappearance of a single red baseball cap with an American political slogan on it—yes, one of those hats—can threaten the very existence of Canada? Yet isn’t there something absurdly fitting about the fact...
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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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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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Sons of Tecumseh
by Maurice Switzer
Indigenous history repeats itself The legendary Tecumseh was the first North American Indian leader to attempt to unite tribes and thwart the relentless intrusion of colonial settlement. He died fighting for his cause, having been betrayed by...
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Loving Zoe
by Marie-Blanche Mitchell
Dark secrets enslave a handful of people in Maskwa Point, whose lives ebb and flow into each other’s daily routines. Among them is Dr. Reid Goldberg. After having promised his grandmother as a teen that he would become a doctor saving lives, his...
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The Red Wing Sings
by Tom Omstead
Will Anderson has chosen to live a simple life until the morning he wakes from a dream to discover that a nuclear nightmare has just begun. A madman has put in motion a witch’s brew of events which catapults the current state of fear in America...
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Vigour
by Pyrimidine Crawford
It isn’t a matter of if you want kids. Are you allowed? Gwendy is days away from knowing where she stands in the procreation hierarchy. In the test, she decides, “When in doubt, do what Allie would do,” because her perfect best friend is sure to...
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Day of Epiphany
by Jerome J Bourgault
Inspired by True Events At the stroke of a pen, Sister Cassandra Lalonde has gone from being a teacher in an orphanage to a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, and her beloved students have been “reclassified” as mental patients. Set against the...
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The Utopia
by Christian Jerry Marchioni
In the Utopia, where all major decisions are made by the Computer, life is far from idyllic for many. Three ordinary people find their lives intertwined in a society that demands conformity and obedience. Deron Boyd, a man struggling with loss...
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Not the Fourth of July
by Pierre Lafarge
Financial analyst Marc Lafarge is a workaholic who has been putting in countless hours for a stockbroking firm in Calgary when he stumbles upon a nefarious plot. The Canadian firm he’s been working for, on his secondary industrial sector project,...
