Fiction
As the skeletons and bodies mount, this Christmas is not looking to be very jolly for Gerry Coneybear, alone in The Maples with the 23 cats left to her by her aunt along with the charming old house. >>
In Varnum, Ontario, the smell of industry is the smell of money, and a lot of that money's heading south just like Kathy Rausch's idol Bobby Orr. Kathy’s life is going nowhere, but she dreams of her own career on the ice, practicing hockey drills when she isn’t checking out groceries. >>
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Set in WWII Italy, The Cipher follows two Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents—Olivia, an Anglo-Italian with hyperthymesia (also known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory or HSAM), and Nino, an Italian merchant marine recruited into the SOE while in a POW camp. In the chaos of war, Olivia and Nino's paths intertwine. >>
A collection of new poetry and prose which features an eclectic mix of literary writers—from emerging writers to established, award-winning poets, fiction writers and playwrights. >>
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Inheriting the Skipper’s House from her late aunt, a famed Scottish writer, looks like the solution to all Elspeth Laird’s financial problems—but practical jokes turn into sinister threats, and a murder reveals a killer among the Isle of Sulla locals. With tensions high and trust scarce, she must unravel dark secrets before becoming the next victim of the house’s deadly curse. >>
Retired Detective Kevin Beldon has left Ottawa and gone into retreat at a Buddhist monastery in California following his successful treatment for lung cancer. He’s trying to make sense of his life, but death is very much on his mind. >>
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The Emptiest Quarter: Novellas
The characters who populate The Emptiest Quarter live at both the centre and the fringes of the conflict between preservation and progress, including sheikhs, western oil-and-gas men, burned-out journalists, pearl divers, and Filipina caregivers, all striving to find themselves, to find love, to find balance in ever-shifting sands.
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A spring Sunday hike leads to literally tripping over the body of a dead woman for letter carrier Beryl Kyte, and things just keep getting stranger around her home in Norwood Flats. Inspector Frank Foote might just believe her, though. >>
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