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Fanny, a seventeen-year-old high school senior, has lost both her parents in a car accident. Granted permission to live independently in the family home located on the outskirts of a small Norwegian town, she passes the days performing her unchanging routine: going to...
Editeur :
Book*hug Press
Parution :
2019-09-10
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Broke
City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows
young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2019-09-01
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Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark,...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
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2019-06-10
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A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage several years ago over Eastern Quebec, Canada. All the passengers and crew were killed. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was declared cold, in a rush. What intrigue and what...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
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2019-05-27
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WINNER of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour!Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature’s least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
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2019-05-15
Collection :
Nunatak First Fiction Series
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p>Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2019-05-01
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We’re never quite sure what made Chloé take a flight to an unnamed country in South America. This series of short vignettes provides a glimpse of her scattered thoughts as she attempts to adjust to life in a new setting. Amidst the quirky observational humour of her...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2019-04-16
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Finalist for the 2020 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize!Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canadian beef, and a severe drought. Older farmers worry about...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2019-04-01
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Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen—a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city’s spirits up over the following winter. But this year, something has...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2019-04-01
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Winner, IPPY Award for Best First Book (Fiction)Winner, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for FictionRunner-up, Leacock Medal for HumourShortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award Shortlisted, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary FictionLong-Shortlisted,...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2019-03-26
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Here you will find the complete novels of Mark Twain in the chronological order of their original publication:
- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee...
Editeur :
KTHTK
Parution :
2019-01-29
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This book contains the complete novels of Victor Hugo in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Hans of Iceland
- Bug-Jargal
- The Last Day of a Condemned Man
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- Claude Gueux
- Les Misérables
- Toilers of the Sea
- The Man...
Editeur :
The Classics
Parution :
2019-01-09
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A man loses his daughter while swimming one summer. This little gem of a novella–sad and beautiful and spellbinding all at once–is the tale of how he strives to be reunited with her again, whether back home on dry land or thousands of miles underwater. Racked with guilt...
Editeur :
Qc Fiction
Parution :
2018-10-29
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1940s Vancouver. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building in Vancouver. The rcmp are rounding up “suspicious” young men, and fishing boats and property are soon seized from Steveston fishers; internment camps in BC’s interior are only...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Kavita Gupta is a woman in transition. When her troubled older brother, Sunil, disappears, she does everything in her power to find him, convinced that she can save him. Ten days later, the police arrive at her door to inform her that Sunil’s body has been found. Her...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2018-09-25
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It could be happening here… or there. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink.
Two strangers meet in a train for Athens. One spews out his disgust at the foreigners and the poverty that have invaded the neighborhood he calls...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife addresses themes of destiny and the repercussions of our choices. Before she dies, actress Alma Joncas instructs her husband to bury her ashes where she was happiest. He decides that was their garden. But relatives,...
Editeur :
Guernica
Parution :
2018-09-01
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Ramya, an immigrant from India, is nearing her 50th birthday. But there's no cause to cheer. Recently separated, and laid off from work as well, she feels lonely, alienated, and despondent. Then one day she chances upon a sandalwood box containing her cherished...
Editeur :
Guernica
Parution :
2018-09-01
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In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from the beginning, and they break up. Then fate,...
Editeur :
Guernica
Parution :
2018-09-01
Collection :
Essential Prose
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An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life – the much-anticipated new novel, the first in more than a decade, from acclaimed writer Keith...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2018-09-01
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