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All That Belongs

By (author) Dora Dueck
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her ...

Days by Moonlight

Botanist Alfred Homer, recently bereaved but ever hopeful, embarks on a road trip with Professor Morgan Bruno. They encounter towns with familiar names but otherworldly customs: where Black residents ...

No Good Asking

By (author) Fran Kimmel
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.

Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying ...

When the Flood Falls

When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits. With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal ...

Watermark

Returning to her childhood home on Mikinaak Island after a 20 year absence, Mina McInnis unravels the incidents that caused her family’s disintegration. She is determined to uncover the truth about ...

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 ...

Malagash

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

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. Devastated doesn’t ...

Once More with Feeling

By (author) Méira Cook
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In the tradition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge comes Once More with Feeling, an exquisitely crafted, beautifully written, and wholly delightful novel about the place we call home ...

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 ...