Fiction, Small Town & Rural
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The Gospel According to Saint Scooter
And Other Tales from the Frontiers of Life by Phil Burpee
The seventeen stories in this collection range from short vignettes to sprawling novellas. The characters who appear in them are ordinary folk, full of flaws and frailties, who embark upon journeys that call them to rise to unforeseen challenges....
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The Distance
Dreams and Despair by Judy Pollard
The Distance tells the story of two Swiss immigrants, Thomas and Wilbert, who arrive in British Columbia’s Kootenay region in the early 1900s, lured by promises of adventure and prosperity. Their dream soon fades, giving way to the harsh...
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A Canadian Werewolf in Montana
by W. K. Shephard
For police officers Andew and Logan, a simple overtime shift will become a nightmare…. This story will account the tragedy that befell the town of Eureka, Montana. When a blood thirsty, foreign monster terrorizes the innocents, it will leave a...
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Colors
Stories and Poems in Different Shades by Samuel Lucy
“Colors” is a blend of short fiction and poems folded into one collection. Rural settings both rugged and soft act equal parts with the characters. Human relations, animal relations and never ending relationships with the land itself play-out...
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Autumn
by Marc MacDonald
For Alex Chambers, the burden of past mistakes hinders his ability to move forward in life, stifling his readiness to embrace the present. His journey to Silver Springs Health and Rehabilitation Centre was meant to be a path to redemption, a...
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Grounds for Return
A Yadkin Valley Novel by Melissa Collins Harrell
A tragedy that broke the heart of a town and forever changed countless lives hovers in the background as Michelle Richardson returns home to Chatham, North Carolina, for an extended visit after living overseas while serving with the military for...
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The Puzzle Box
by Lisa Adair
In the small Saskatchewan town of Glenmere, sixteen-year-old Amy Young wants nothing more than to save enough money from her summer jobs to try to build a future for herself somewhere else. Anywhere would be better than living with Jeannie, her...
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The Newfoundland Lunch Party
A Sisters of the Soil Novel With Recipes by Sonia Day
The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food – this time in Newfoundland – where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo’s saltbox house by the sea. She insists it’s worth a fortune. But is she right?...
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All the Stars in the Sky
by Hubert E. Devine
It is 1950 in the seaport town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Celeste Alexander, the daughter of a poor lobster poacher, dreams of something more than the life she leads cleaning the houses of her wealthy neighbours. When opportunity comes knocking,...
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in a Manor of Speaking
by Joan McNamee
Even after twenty years, the tight-knit Ontario community of Long Point County remains haunted by the tragic Lake Erie shipwreck that took place just off its coast in 1852. Several of its survivors still live among them even now, having been...
