Fiction, Coming Of Age
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Place
by A M Robinson
JADE is in her last year of high school, turning eighteen. She is a resident of Turtle Point First Nations Reserve in the north and descended from a hereditary line of medicine women and men. Jade is a brilliant student, driven to complete high...
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Tiny Little Pharmacists
by Michael Park
Darrell, Mala, and Jack are three quirky characters who have an equally unusual dream—to transform the world through the alchemical power of pharmacy. Just as pharmacists work on an elevated platform, in their own way, Darrell, Mala, and Jack...
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Willow Wisp
The last and final adventure of a three book series by Madison Lake
Time jumps ahead two decades in the final book of this fanciful trilogy. Lavinia Rose, daughter of Henley Hornbrook III and his gypsy wife, Rosetta, has just finished her education abroad. After being away for four years, she returns to her home...
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Reel to Real
by Jim Maxim
A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find...
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The Eyes of Bach
by Marc Moskovitz
In the spring of 1750, cellist Carl Barth, a music student at Leipzig’s St. Thomas, is assigned to assist the school’s aging cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach. Though initially uncertain of his new role, Barth’s confidence and musicianship blossom...
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Dundreary's Jam
by Jill Shakley
Barrymore Dundreary St. John has a low-wage job dismantling old and wrecked motor vehicles for parts. Although not a luxurious job, even for a Londoner during the Great Depression, everything changes when he unexpectedly receives a large sum from...
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The Briars Between
An Emily Twillum Adventure by Andrew Sibbald
Thirteen-year-old Emily enjoys her life on the Briars estate in Jackson’s Point, Ontario, where, up until recently, things have been quiet and peaceful. For the past four years, Emily and her parents have lived in a wing of the manor, looking...
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The Girl with Autumn Eyes
by R.F. Vincent
I looked at my watch—9:42 a.m. on the twenty-eighth day of September. It was the exact moment I fell in love with the girl on the bridge. Discarded in a dumpster at birth and never adopted, MC has been crippled by social anxiety for most of his...
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Whispers and Shadows
by Najat Sinclair-Benrbia
WHISPERS AND SHADOWS is the story of Ahlam, a Moroccan girl, who finds herself living an identity crisis in a culture that privileges boys over girls. Amid the chaos, Ahlam tries to navigate her ways in her turbulent surroundings, with all the...
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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...
