Fiction: narrative themes

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A Circle on the Surface

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where Una feels increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. ...

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 ...

Escape from Syria

By (author) Samya Kullab
Illustrated by Jackie Roche
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account that calls on real-life circumstances and true tales of refugee families to serve as a microcosm of the Syrian uprising and the war and refugee crisis that ...

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 ...

Under Her Skin

By (author) Stephen Law
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

After her home is ransacked, her friend is attacked, and her white father suddenly reappears, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. In a narrative that ...

Chocolate Cherry Chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition for a life of experience and adventure, proving to herself and her mother that she is anything but a typical ...

Love Her Wild

By (author) Atticus
Categories: Poetry

The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.

Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured ...

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 ...