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My True and Complete Adventures as a Wannabe Voyageur

Benjie Gabai serves out his days as caretaker of The Bay’s poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting and polishing the artifacts that fuel his imagination. When he learns his museum is about to be closed ...

Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You

By (author) Jill Sexsmith
Categories: Humorous fiction

Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You explores the peculiar places we look for validation, a purpose, a life we might recognize as wholly our own. As her off-kilter heroes and heroines struggle ...

The Deadbeat Club

This darkly humorous crime novel set in a Canadian ski town is a “fast-paced thrill ride.” (Publishers Weekly)

“The dialogue is some of the sharpest and funniest I’ve seen in any book this year.” ...

Armin's Shorts

By (author) Armin Wiebe
Categories: Humorous fiction

Armin’s Shorts features tales from the familiarly fictitious Mennonite community of Gutenthal, reimagined origin stories from the Tlįcho of the subarctic, and flights of pure fantasy set in modern day ...

The True Confessions of a Badly Misunderstood Dog

By (author) Bill Rowe
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

This is the heartwarming and hilarious memoir of Durf, a yellow Lab who thinks he is the boss of two cats. Durf often dreams of performing heroic feats to prove to his family that he truly is the top ...

Rite of James Biddle, The

By (author) Andrew Bailey
Categories: Humorous fiction

The Reverend James Biddle loves good books and traditional values, fearing the brave new digital world and the interweb. He’s thirty-six. He fights modernization. Fights and fails to stop his own St. ...

A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love

By (author) Eufemia Fantetti
Categories: Fiction

Winner of the 2014 F. G. Bressani Literary Prize for Short Fiction and finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.

A Recipe for Disaster is populated by quirky characters who blend desire, imperfect ...

Nobody Cries At Bingo

By (author) Dawn Dumont
Categories: Fiction

Readers are invited to witness first hand Dumont family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins ...

Overqualified

By (author) Joey Comeau
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

"Overqualified's cover letters are like a slap in the face, but the slap is hilarious, and you can't stop laughing, and as soon as it's over you want to tell all your friends about the slap. You know ...

Pulpy and Midge

By (author) Jessica Westhead
Categories: ‘Street’ fiction

Brian Lembeck - ‘Pulpy’ - takes life slow and steady. He likes his office job, and he likes his gentle, figurine-collecting boss, Al. He even likes the bitter receptionist, though he’s the only ...