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It’s 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into their last year of high school visit a local parkand their lives are changed forever. The...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2021-06-03
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It’s 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into their last year of high school visit a local park—and their lives are changed forever. The...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2021-06-03
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Includes Author-Curated Discussion Questions!From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost...
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NeWest Press
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2021-05-14
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“I know a girl with a large head who tells only sad stories. She tells me that her stories are not sad because there are other people with worse stories and though this is true, it strikes me as the saddest thing she could say.” A motley collection of characters...
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Radiant Press
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2021-05-04
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In his evocative debut novel, Light on
a Part of the Field, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling
with artistic ambition, mental illness, and...
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NeWest Press
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2021-04-30
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Includes Author-Curated Discussion Questions!The reunited Lund siblings, separated as children by Social Services, find that family, whether held together by blood or by choice, can be both a curse and a blessing, an obstacle and a point of connection.Set in Vancouver...
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NeWest Press
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2021-04-14
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Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary
Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world’s oldest profession in order
to provide for her ailing father and younger sister in the city’s Old Town.
When her uncle, a well-to-do solicitor...
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NeWest Press
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2021-03-31
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Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardLonglisted, Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction Award Longlisted, The Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards (Novel)One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year The time is 1937. The place: the Basque Country,...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2021-03-02
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Inspired by Athanasius' The Temptations of St. Anthony in which the protagonist is repeatedly beset by desert demons, My Claustrophobic Happiness offers La Betty, a wealthy condo inhabitant whose cloistered consumer object worship provides her with fragile protection...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2021-01-15
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In the Gothic towers of the cathedral of Notre-Dame—which has been subjected to decades of degradation and neglect—lives its bell ringer, Quasimodo. Persecuted as wicked and pilloried for his broken appearance, he’s shown kindness only by the alluring Esmeralda, an...
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ClassicBooks
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2020-11-24
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It is 2013 and Calgary’s Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend–an accident?
Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid up in the...
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Stonehouse Originals
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2020-11-01
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An expertly constructed Agatha Christie-like tale, written with the steadfast and humorous pen of a Maria Campbell. Forceful and unflinching, at times painful, but always love-laden and often funny, Humane is a story about family and community; an examination and...
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Stonehouse Originals
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2020-11-01
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"Danika Stone is a stone cold thriller genius." -Gareth L Powell, award-winning author of Ragged Alice and the Embers of War trilogy
“Tightly woven with suspense and vivid, compelling prose, this third book of the series is proof of Ms. Stone’s talent as a master...
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Stonehouse Originals
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2020-11-01
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From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly agrees to join a therapy group,...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2020-10-30
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Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2020-10-30
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Longlisted for 2022 Dublin Literary AwardsWinner of the 2021 Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book AwardsA brilliant novel reimagining the life of internationally renowned folk artist Maud Lewis by an award-winning author.But I had known since forever that it's...
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Vagrant Press
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2020-09-30
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A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionHamilton Reads 2021 SelectionA Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearA 49th Shelf Books of the Year (Fiction) SelectionOne of "20 books you need to read this winter," Maclean's For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2020-09-01
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A surprise return home triggers a chain of events, their strands weaving together a sinister web of dreams and reality, truth and lies, secrets and spells.
Following in the tradition of Fortier’s absurdist first novel, The Unknown Huntsman, this is a dark and offbeat...
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Baraka Books
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2020-08-28
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International 3-Day Novel Contest Winner! The Second Detective is a deliriously entertaining reimagining of the hard-boiled detective novel, featuring a mysterious narrator, a missing husband, and a lascivious mountain goat with interspecies interests. Aging beauty...
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Anvil Press
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2020-06-29
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Winner of the 41st International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest
Alan is unsure if he is dead or dreaming, he only knows that he is stuck in a loop. He finds himself being forced to walk along a straight path through an unending pine forest where any deviation from the path...
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Anvil Press
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2020-06-29
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