Fiction
If Alice Munro were a man, she'd be Scott Randall. Randall's stories examine the small moments in ordinary life with the kind of exacting detail and intimate characterization we have come to know in the stories of some our best female writers. >>
This novel captures that unique Montreal joie de vivre that survives despite bitter politics, economic downturns, language laws, record snowfalls, crumbling streets, and a baseball team on the verge of disappearing. >>
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Launch follows Theo Strahl, a quirky Winnipeg scavenger, artist and inventor, whose long-held fears of the world's end are triggered by an otherworldly voice commanding him to build a spaceship. As Theo becomes obsessed with escaping the planet, his marriage and his relationships with his son and his closest friends are tested, as he confronts his deepest fears about survival, love, and hope. >>
Le soleil du lac qui se couche/The Setting Lake Sun (ebook)
Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in a Winnipeg art gallery at a show by a Native artist she happens to meet Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. It is an encounter that will change both their lives. >>
When she agrees to care for her dying ex-lover, Delia Buckley has no idea the ways in which the past will come back to haunt her. >>
Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge's life is perfect but when his hubris destroys a friendship, his world begins to crumble. As an urgent attempt to come to terms with his past and reshape his present Bridge starts writing a memoir. >>
Christmas at the Pleasant Inn should be the most wonderful time of the year, but when strange pranks turn deadly, the holiday becomes decidedly less merry. >>
Dr. Lorne Thorpe, a well-known pediatrician, is on a rare outing with his daughter Shawn when she goes missing. >>
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