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Places Like These

Par (auteur) Lauren Carter
Catégories: Littérature générale

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault ...

The Marigold

“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

 “A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow’s headlines.” ...

Sleepers and Ties

Par (auteur) Gail Kirkpatrick
Catégories: Fiction

Grieving Museum curator Margaret returns to her childhood home to leave behind her sister Shirley’s ashes and attend the final reading of her will. Unbeknownst to Margaret, Shirley has left her eight ...

Morse Code for Romantics

Par (auteur) Anne Baldo
Catégories: Littérature générale

In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge—and break—in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate ...

In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

Par (auteur) Jonathan Garfinkel
Catégories: Littérature générale

In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut novel, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.  

Spanning generations, ...

A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English

Édité par Henry M. Wallace
Catégories: Littérature générale

A first anthology of its kind, A Dark Conspiracy and Other nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English anthologizes the best stories written by Canadians. Amond the authors in the collection, ...

Beneath the Willows

Par (auteur) Marie Hess
Catégories: Roman policier

The Wright family was sharecropping in Alcott, New York. After years of plowing fields and hanging tobacco, they had an opportunity to own a small farm in southern Ontario. Beth, their only daughter, ...

Nila the Bleeding Garden

Par (auteur) Laila Re
Catégories: Littérature générale

Nila the Bleeding Garden describes the turbulent journey of an Afghan girl called Nila who suddenly has to escape her homeland with her family during the long Afghan war. As a child refugee, she experiences ...

Isolated Incident

Par (auteur) Mariam Pirbhai
Catégories: Fiction

When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident. But many see it as a ...

We Have Never Lived On Earth

Par (auteur) Kasia Van Schaik
Catégories: Nouvelles
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother ...