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Melting Queen, The

By (author) Bruce Cinnamon
Categories: Magical realism
Series: Nunatak First Fiction

Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen—a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city’s ...

Skyjack: a full-throttle hijacking thriller that never slows down

By (author) K.J. Howe
Categories: Adventure fiction
Series: A Thea Paris Novel

"ACTION-PACKED THRILL RIDE." --KARIN SLAUGHTER
"SENSATIONAL." --LEE CHILD
"HIGH STAKES, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE REALISM, AND NONSTOP ACTION." --KAREN DIONNE

In the follow-up to her exhilarating debut, The Freedom ...

Undercard

Set over the course of twenty-four exhilarating hours, Undercard is the story of four childhood friends, now in their early thirties, unexpectedly reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino… ...

Days by Moonlight

Botanist Alfred Homer, recently bereaved but ever hopeful, embarks on a road trip with Professor Morgan Bruno. They encounter towns with familiar names but otherworldly customs: where Black residents ...

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

Megan Gail Coles’s highly anticipated debut novel is a blistering timely and heartbreaking portrait of a place in the throes of enormous change, where two women confront the traumas of their past in ...

Le nord retrouvé

Le Nord retrouvé dévoile cinq personnages liés entre eux parmi lesquels un, central et commun, est absent. Habitants d’une ville minière autrefois prospère, les trois premiers, enclavés dans la ...

Les voyages éphémères

Un train s’arrête dans une ville l’espace de quelques heures, qu’un voyageur met à profit pour s’égarer au hasard des rues. Séduit par la devanture d’une papeterie, il y entre et achète ...

Les offrandes

When Maude turns 18, she says au revoir to Québec and holà to a life in Mexico where she becomes a private detective focusing on missing-pet cases all across Mexico. When her ex-mother-in-law invites ...

Le deuxième mari

On this island, frozen in time, men must obey women. With characteristic finesse and audacity, the author of The Orange Grove delivers an intricate novel which, like a skewed mirror, upends social norms, ...

La sultane dévoilée

By (author) Jean Mohsen Fahmy
Categories: Historical fiction
Series: Voix narratives

Se déployant entre le Nil et l’Euphrate au XIIIe siècle, à l’époque des dernières croisades, ce roman nous fait revivre l’histoire fabuleuse de Chagaratt el-Dorr, la seule femme qui ait jamais ...