Fiction, Family Life
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Boot Camp
by Luci Branco
Danielle is the classic girl- next- door, minding her own business both at home and at the office. But she’s about to turn thirty, still single, and her sisters have decided she needs to be shaken out of her quiet life. What better way than at a...
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Inhale Exhale
by Nicole MacPherson
Michelle’s life has stagnated. Her days are spent balancing the demands of running her yoga studio with parenting her teenage daughter, Livvy – all while contending with her workaholic ex-husband, Paul. Under pressure from her sister, and facing...
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The Homesteaders
by Brad Kuich
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future. Free land? Who could resist? Never mind the land wasn’t the government’s to give away,...
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The Seduction of Edith
The Prairie Years by Joan Talbot
The Seduction of Edith: The Prairie Years follows Edith Mary Williams, a young bride who leaves her home in Wales for the harsh and unfamiliar landscape of early-1900s Manitoba. As she struggles to adapt to life in a sod house, the demands of...
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Primeval Hope
by K. L. Turnbull
Renee is a single mother to twins Boone and Bonnie. Since the twins’ birth, the three of them have been a tight, close-knit family. But when the missing father arrives after twenty-three years of absence, the family’s insecurities, individual and...
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The Fated Escape
by Jean Busby
A riveting and romantic adventure during the Golden Age of Piracy when mysteriously, a girl with no memory, awakens on a pirate ship called The Fated Escape. The brutal pirates treat her well, but the captain takes her breath away. Ransomed and...
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My Last Story
by Sophia Palahicky
At the age of sixteen, Natasha Johnson ran away from home and became estranged from her family. Fifteen years later, she is taken to hospital after colliding head-on with an SUV. During her recovery, she is haunted by nightmares that reveal...
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Finding My Way Back Home
by Norman Giesbrecht
Finding My Way Back Home tells the story of Nick and Lisa, two young adults from a small conservative community, from the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. After a teenage romance, the two meet again in 1965 as Nick is entering his last year at...
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I Guess I’m Not The Problem...
A Stepmom's Naive Optimism and Survival in a Toxic Family by Racheli Sarah Doves
Racheli isn’t expecting to fall in love again later in life, but a chance encounter with a colleague transitions from a happenstance meeting at a local diner to a wedding proposal. Racheli is determined to make a successful blended family with...
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Externalities
by D. McCall Johnston
Tuscany, 1950. A chance encounter between two young people on the street marks the beginning of a whirlwind romance. Yolanda and Clemente Gallorini are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime as they begin to build a life together. No one...
