Contemporary Women

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Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons

Lucknow in 1856 is the most opulent city in India. If the English take over, the royal family and centuries of rich, cosmopolitan culture will disappear. Amah, personal bodyguard to the King, wants to ...

No Fury Like That

No Fury Like That is a literary thriller about life and death—and the power of second chances. What is your moral compass? Julia Redner has to die in order to find her answer to this question. But is ...

The Street of Butterflies

The Street of Butterflies features Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and their struggles to survive and adapt as immigrants in North America. These stories provide a glimpse of ...

The Last Wave

Gillian Best, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction, weaves a striking literary debut centred on one woman’s relationship to the sea in this sweeping intergenerational family saga.

A ...

In Many Waters

“This captivating novel explores the unmaking and remaking of families, as well as the dark secrets and grim histories that can destroy lives. In Many Waters is a profound and moving work. ” –Joseph ...

Cadillac Road

Cadillac Road is the story of Sharon Desjardins, from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Québec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger ...

I Am a Truck

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

Agathe and Réjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary when Réjean’s beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of ...

What Happened to Tom

Inspired by Judith Jarvis Thomson’s philosophical thought experiment “The Violinist,” this book is a psychological thriller, a horror story that any one of millions of people could experience.

Tom ...

Dead Man, The

“Nora Gold is a natural storyteller, and her ability to make us understand the shimmering and complex landscape of love has its haunting echoes in the Israeli landscape. ” —Jay Neugeboren, author ...

The Homes We Build on Ashes

Amidst violence and abject injustice, Nara Lee finds a way to rise up from the ashes again and again to rejoice in small triumphs in the homes she has lived, and in the homes she has lost.

Nara Lee carries ...