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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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Fair of Face
by Rosemary Hurren
Welcome to Edenvale, a small town … with big secrets. When Private Investigator Kit Kotcka arrives in Edenvale, Ontario, to look into the background of a teenage mother whose infant child recently died of starvation, an ethereal smell of smoke haunts her. Kit’s task should be straightforward: to find the family and friends of the young mother, Fiona Orth, and find out what sort of person she is. Could Fiona be lying about how she was let down by social services who failed to recognize her child wasn’t thriving under his mother’s care? Kit quickly discovers that the perfect small-town life is not as it seems in this tourist hotspot. Interviewing family, former teachers, and classmates, she starts to colour a mental portrait of Fiona, a brilliant but strange child with a checkered past. Kit teams up with Jack, a journalist who is doing his own research on a murder investigation within the same family in Edenvale. By combining their skills, they uncover a complicated web of family secrets that are threaded throughout the community. With Kit sniffing around town and asking questions about events that were buried long ago, she disturbs a snake’s nest and becomes a target for someone who needs to ensure her silence. Kit soon finds herself in a race to uncover the truth about the tragedies this town has faced—before she becomes the next victim.
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Roberta
by Diane Carter-Brown
Love knows no bounds—even when it crosses the boundaries of propriety. In the Highlands of Scotland in the late 1800s, James Alexander Cunningham sets out for Edinburgh to study architecture at the university. While staying at his uncle’s home, he encounters a presence that awakens feelings he has never known before. Roberta. Their love blooms—passionate, fated. Until tragedy strikes, and everything is lost. Decades later, another James Alexander Cunningham—also an architect—and his daughter, Roberta Alexandra Cunningham, share a terrifying recurring nightmare. Not only that, but their bond is unusually strong; Roberta has always turned to her father—not her mother—for comfort, protection, and a sense of belonging. But when she returns from university with a PhD in architecture, something shifts. A current stirs between them—intimate, unsettling. How can this be? Set against the lush backdrop of Oxfordshire and the wild, heathered hills of Inverness, this bold and deeply emotional story of love defies the rules of time, memory, and society. Only a handful of trusted friends know the truth. But silence weighs heavily on everyone. Will one of them slip?
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The Broken Furrow
The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada by Jeffrey R. Thomas
If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic. From his childhood in wartime Wales to his years working across Canada, author Jeffrey R. Thomas has experienced many rocks in his life. His memoir, The Broken Furrow: The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada, is full of them. Maybe the first was when his father abandoned the generations-long tradition of passing down the family farm. Or when Jeffrey emigrated from Wales to Canada as a result. But no matter what life—and nature—had in store for him, Jeffrey persevered. He had to. That’s why Jeffrey and his growing family moved to Ontario to Manitoba to British Columbia—and back and forth—following where the opportunities took them, whether it was sheep farming, trucking, or sales. But after years of riding the highs and lows, Jeffrey retired—sort of. Detailed and expansive, The Broken Furrow is more than a memoir about farming and rural living. It’s a story rich with history and adventure, an ode to all the incredible people Jeffrey has met in his long, perfectly imperfect life.
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The Amulet of Joy
by Tess Holder
When a little girl named Marigold Amelia Plum is called to the magical land of Chaireina by its Creator, the ever-loving and benevolent Magnus Opa, she is astounded by its enchanting beauty and the welcoming kindness of its fantastical creatures. And though it feels very much like a place where nothing bad could ever happen, she soon learns that this is not the case. As lovely as it is, Chaireina has long been under threat. Sly Sigmund the Soothsayer wants nothing more than to destroy all the good works of Magnus Opa and drain every ounce of joy from the land. Marigold soon discovers that she is one of Magnus Opa’s very rare and very special “Chosen Ones,” with a heart capable of withstanding even the worst of Sigmund’s tricks and manipulations . . . and that her help is very much needed. Sigmund has tricked young King Azarel into surrendering the Apricus Amulet, which contains and protects all the unquenchable joy of Chaireina, as long as it is worn close to the pure heart of Magnus Opa’s anointed king or queen. And so, joined by an assortment of truly marvellous new friends, Marigold must set out on an incredible Quest of Grit and Grace in the hopes of returning the amulet to its rightful owner to save an entire world from losing its joy forever. A chapter book for older children (ages 6 to 12), The Amulet of Joy is a wonderfully entertaining story of self-acceptance, the triumph of good over evil, and the importance of having faith and courage in the face of adversity.
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Three Days Till Rapture
by Fisher Lavell
A tale of constancy and betrayal, brokenness and redemption, Three Days Till Rapture is a working-class novel set in the wilds of northern Manitoba in the 1950s. Grace is determined to save her errant young husband, Valentine Labeau – from himself, from his baser nature, from the drink. A charming guitar-player and singer, he’s a flawed man but a wonderful father to their children. Cheerful and feisty, Grace dedicates her tenacious love to Valentine’s entire troubled family. But hardships pile upon losses and sorrows. And Grace is only a woman, after all, not a saint and not an angel. Can she really save them all? Can she even save herself and the children?
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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 homesteader is swept up in the hope and hype of the Klondike Gold Rush, and joins the great stampede to the Yukon. Readers experience the Gold Rush through the wide eyes of the nineteen-year-old farm kid. Through hardship and setbacks, liars and thieves, Seamus returns with a fortune, but the gold carries a curse. When the present-day brother and sister discover the shocking truth about the curse, sibling ties are ripped apart. Jack is compelled to expose the truth, while cunning and powerful Olivia, will do anything to keep the families’ secret buried with the past. The Last Letter takes readers on a great adventure, from the rough and tumble boomtowns of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, to the opulent boardrooms of the powerbrokers of today.
