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The Sign on My Father's House

By (author) Tom Moore
Edited by Donna Morrissey
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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This is the uproariously funny and at times heartbreaking tale of a young man’s rough ride into adulthood. Felix Ryan is on a journey to discover who he is and where he is headed. ...

Land Beyond the Sea

By (author) Kevin Major
Categories: Historical fiction

**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER**
**NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION**
**BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD FINALIST**

In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank ...

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

Megan Gail Coles’s highly anticipated debut novel is a blistering timely and heartbreaking portrait of a place in the throes of enormous change, where two women confront the traumas of their past in ...

A Face Like the Moon

A remarkable debut from Canadian-Coptic writer, Mina Athanassious, who takes readers into the heartbreaking world of Coptic children coming of age in Egypt. “All Good Things Thrown Away” delves into ...

The Rising Tide

Rumours of the Second Coming of Christ abound in the City of Masks. Michele Archenti, publisher, former priest, and current confidant to the mysterious skeleton-bearer Rodolpho, finds himself swept away ...

The Deserters

Shifting across three countries, the novel explores themes of trust, isolation, abandonment, and emotional disconnection in a world dramatically altered by the experience of war. Eugenie is trying—and ...

Net Worth

A woman wins a fabulous lottery; a frustrated middle-age man waits for his wealthy father to die; an unemployed father and widower struggles to earn a living wage; an older man of means has an affair ...

The House on Major Street

By (author) Leon Rooke
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures, and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque ...

Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik

By (author) Carolyn Marie Souaid
Categories: Fiction

A young woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen’s tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montréal, get married, ...

Slouching Towards Innocence

By (author) Ron Norman
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Set in the quirky, combative, and darkly comic world of British Columbia politics—where your friends can be more dangerous than your enemies—Slouching Towards Innocence is a story of politics, love, ...