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Taste of Evil

Par (auteur) Tony Aspler & Gordon Pape
Catégories: Fiction

Taste of Evil is thoroughly researched and historically accurate fictionalized story of one of Hitler’s food tasters and her relationship with Albert Speer. It contains excerpts from important documents, ...

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer

Par (auteur) Kevin Loring
Catégories: Romans (Jeunesse)

Little Red Warrior is the last remaining member of the Little Red Warrior First Nation. One day, he discovers a development company has begun construction on his ancestral lands. In a fit of rage, Little ...

The Hanged Woman’s Daughter

Par (auteur) Nellie P. Strowbridge
Catégories: Roman historique

Award-winning author Nellie P. Strowbridge weaves a tantalizing tale of the elusive Bridget Snow, the scattering of her family by a heartless magistrate, and her attempt at anonymity—all on the heels ...

The Spoon Stealer

Par (auteur) Lesley Crewe
Catégories: Littérature générale

Emmeline has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime—from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill. She is a compulsive spoon stealer. When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she ...

The Transaction

De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily’s hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction. While en route, the train he’s on mysteriously ...

The Liars

Par (auteur) Ida Linehan Young
Catégories: Littérature générale

Newfoundland, 1895. Alice and John MacDonald, both running from pasts that were too traumatic to face, meet by chance and stay together in a fragile world that’s rife with lies and secrets. The only ...

The Kissing Fence

Par (auteur) B.A. Thomas-Peter
Catégories: Littérature générale

In The Kissing Fence, two generations grapple with identity, oppression, and redemption rooted in the chilling history of the 1950s and 60s conflict between the Canadian government and the Doukhobors ...

The Ballad of Samuel Hewitt

Par (auteur) Nick Tooke
Catégories: Roman historique

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this story sees a young horse thief and his unlikely accomplice pursued through the forbidding landscape of the British Columbia Interior. There they ...

The Envy of Paradise

In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria’s reign over India. But what happened to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent who had valiantly ...

Symphony No. 3

Par (auteur) Chris Eaton
Catégories: Romans biographiques

Symphony No. 3 follows the life of renowned French composer Camille Saint-Saëns as he ascends from child prodigy to worldwide fame. As his acclaim grows in Paris, the musical world around him clamours ...