Fiction, World Literature / Canada, 20th Century
-
The Last Letter
A Klondike Goldrush Murder Spawns a Dynasty...and Destroys a Family by Robert L. McIntyre
The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest. During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young...
-
The Prodigal Son
by Oslo Meko
Warren Wilcox, as a child, develops antipathy toward everything Nigerian when he learns about the rejection of his Canadian family by his Nigerian grandfather. As a physician, he works tirelessly in his pursuit of bettering the world. While...
-
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...
-
Day of Epiphany
by Jerome J Bourgault
Inspired by True Events At the stroke of a pen, Sister Cassandra Lalonde has gone from being a teacher in an orphanage to a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, and her beloved students have been “reclassified” as mental patients. Set against the...
-
The Ambition
by Yvonne Blackwood
In the hustle and bustle of 1990s Toronto, John Cippione and his older brother Carmine take over their hard-working Italian immigrant father’s small heating and air-conditioning company. John is determined to propel the business into the big...
-
Throwaway People
by Mallory Eaglewood
Birdie’s world is forever changed when she discovers the lifeless body of a fisherman on a Scottish beach. This tragic event brings back haunting memories of her older brother’s mysterious disappearance from her family when she was just eleven...
-
Too Soon Old
Too Late Smart by Bev Christensen
Now in her nineties, a woman reflects on the seminal decision she made, to flee an abusive husband in Vancouver and take her little boy to live with her on the remote, northern farm that her late parents had created from the wilderness. As she...
-
Where Men Stand Tall
by William Endert
This story is incredible. It describes the life style and working conditions Ed van Zeeland finds himself in, in a remote logging camp. He alternately is a tree planter, compass man, timber cruiser and road lay out man, and this thrilling,...
-
A Seven Year Ache
by Fisher Lavell
Rosie Kelvey is a spirited and willful prairie woman of the early twentieth century whose ache to pursue her own desires goes against the harsh and limiting moral landscape of her time. She has what the neighbours teasingly call “two men on her...
-
