Fiction, Family Life
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Blue Moon on Water
by G B Gordon
In the 1950s, just a few years after Newfoundland entered Confederation, the first official provincial resettlement program saw thousands of islanders leave their coastal out-port communities to resettle on the mainland. The plan was that families ...
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Anna's Place
by Carol Eckhardt
Anna Royer and her daughter Elizabeth are haunted by the raw Wyoming landscape they left behind years before. Their memories of the immensity of sky, the breadth of distance, the demons of weather and spirits of the "Old Ones" conspire to draw them ...
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Echoes
by Carol Eckhardt
In the third of the Bear Valley series, the evolving contemporary lives of the Royer and Harter families and their neighbors echo those of the early homesteaders as they confront the challenges of the weather, the isolation and hardships of ranch ...
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Thoughts of a Fractured Soul
by Kern Carter
“Thoughts of a Fractured Soul” tells a story of family and failed potential told through the reflective voice of the main character, Corey Thomas a.k.a Ace. Through a series of non-linear digressions, some brief and some extended, Corey catalogues ...
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Beyond the 14th Floor
by Melaney Bossaer
A storm rages through Philadelphia causing a city-wide power outage. Three strangers are thrust into an arduous and unexpected situation when they are suddenly trapped together in a high-rise elevator. With little food or water, their desperation ...
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Looking for Daisy
by Maria de Andrade
Sixty-two-year-old Marguerite has just had her second breast cancer diagnosis following a routine mammogram—and this time she will have to undergo a full mastectomy. Scared and discouraged, she keeps the news to herself so she doesn’t spoil an ...
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A Patch of Black Ice
by Maria de Andrade
Olivier Lambert is a private detective trying to gather the pieces of his life together after his beloved wife dies in a freak car accident. When he meets Maude, a mysterious woman with a complex case involving a fatal accident, long-lost relatives ...
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Cycles
by Maria de Andrade
A young couple meets during a Carnival celebration in their beloved city of Lisbon, beginning a passionate and challenging journey together that will span two countries and two political revolutions. Told through Tiago and Marta’s eyes, Cycles ...
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The Little Sect
by Maria de Andrade
The Little Sect is the story of Michelle and her close-knit extended family in Montreal. Though not without their troubles, they’re mostly happy, until the arrival of her brother’s second child creates the need for a live-in nanny, Lita. Lita’s ...
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Cottage
by Terry Leeder
When a wife dies, the survivor is suddenly on his own. This can be especially traumatic if he has depended on her to deal with all the details of their life together. After a disastrous but short-lived first marriage, Mason reconnects with ...
