Fiction, Coming Of Age
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A Hyphenated Life
by Sylvia Barnard
Caught between the pressure to be a good Canadian girl, her duty to her immigrant parents, and her own personal desires, Angelika Langer must learn to translate not just the three languages she speaks, but also her own inner voice. Her parents...
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Echoes of the Red Earth
by Cornelius van Dijk
Dive into a captivating realm of speculative wonders with this bold and imaginative collection of post-apocalyptic tales. Within these pages, you’ll encounter extraordinary individuals who dare to seek a life beyond the confines of their small...
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Letters from Gerald
by R. W. Butler
Soon after the war ended, a young Eleanor Hutchinson dreams of a job as an ornithologist. Without the training, experience and social standing the chances are slim. Undaunted she writes to the British Museum for advice and promptly receives a...
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Destination Haight-Ashbury
by Bernice Bohnet
Due to bullying in school, fifteen-year-old Pearl Armstrong longs to leave her repressive and unfair life on a Canadian farm. Thus, she runs away to San Francisco, the epicenter of the 1960’s counterculture movement. Pearl leaves behind her...
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The Threefold Cord
by James Alan Anderson
Despite an indifferent father and a mother who develops a serious mood disorder, young twins Kevin and Robert, and their younger brother Jonah, experience an idyllic early life in rural Manitoba during the 1950s while in the loving care of their...
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The Eyes of Bats
by Hubert E. Devine
Will Alexander is on a journey of the heart and soul, searching for something elusive, something missing from his life—something obscured by the chaotic circumstances of his life and the mists of uncertainty. Blind to obvious truths, he is unable...
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Today's Thomas Sawyer
Frank Minetti by Butch Arnold
This story begins where it ends, followed by a whimsical search for lucidity. The reader is taken for a particle infused gambol, a continuum circling spacetime. Isolation propels our hero, Thomas Sawyer. Exploring truth in blackholed fiction, our...
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Breaking Ground
by Marie Corbett
When free-spirited Carmel spends a summer working at a Canadian Rockies resort in the 1960s, she falls passionately in love. Weighed down by her Roman Catholic upbringing, and at a time when repressive morals condemned free love, she is torn...
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The Music of the Gridiron
by Gary J. Kirchner
An offence with attitude and a mean streak. A defence so radical it’s dubbed “the Weird.” A fractured coaching staff ready to come to blows. It is Head Coach Arne Viimets’ third year at McGill, and he’s been told his contract will not be renewed....
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Only the Unexpected
by Jill Shakley
In England in the 1930s, Kenneth Verney is expelled from his public school for a prank-gone-wrong. When he’s forced to take a job with his uncle instead of joining the army, as he wishes, he expects boredom. Instead, he finds true delight in his...
