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What The Stones Remember
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An emergency physician finds herself at a crossroad in Mexico City while tending to earthquake victims. Evelyn Rivka Spiegel has spent years outrunning her past by caring for others as an emergency physician. When institutional inequities clash...
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The Girl with Delphinium Eyes
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A young girl vanishes, swallowed by darkness, her story lost to time. Decades later, a compassionate nurse inherits a quiet country home from a woman she barely knew, stepping into a mystery that refuses to stay buried. Joanna Waters has built...
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Let the Sufi Flout
Surviving the Summer of ’57 in the Yukon
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At home in Toronto in 1997, sixty-year-old Maude Thorvaldson is jolted back to the most pivotal chapter of her life when a radio interview with an old friend unlocks a rush of Yukon memories—and the girl she used to be. It’s the summer of 1957,...
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Nevermore
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Her husband’s death was supposed to end her torment. But it was just the beginning. When schoolteacher Rachael Benson convinces her controlling and abusive husband to vacation on a secluded island that once belonged to her grandparents, she hopes...
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violet
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Janey June Jamieson grew up with her parents and younger sister, Ellie, on the idyllic Shag Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. When the girls are sent to the mainland to finish high school, they find themselves in the centre of a social web...
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Annie
Three Times a Widow
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Port Blandford, Newfoundland and Labrador, is a small fishing village sheltered from the dramatic Atlantic Ocean. It was into this small community that Annie Ryan was born in 1920. Life at this time was difficult, as the fishing industry was no...
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Drama Bonds
A Collection of Short Stories
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Ordinary life in turn-of-the-millennium Toronto—it’s got way too much drama going on. Though, really, with all those duties to follow and desires to chase, pulling a woman in far too many directions at once, what else could she expect? These...
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A Prisoner Within
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I was raised to believe a woman is defined by the men in her life: the father who shelters her, the brother who overshadows her, the husband who is meant to complete her. I was told a woman is nothing on her own, that her value is measured by how...
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The Plantain Tart Mystery
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When Caribbean-born Jane Michaels discovers her husband is cheating on her and then loses her job, she decides it’s time for a fresh start. Leaving her adopted life in Canada behind, she returns to the small island of St. Jerome, where she and...
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The Ancestors
From the Beginning
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A woman’s life often follows the timeless arc of the goddess: the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. Youthful aspirations, grounded by motherhood, then shaped into a wellspring of wisdom. This wisdom lives on through generations, carried in...
