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Ragged Lake

Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past

While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter’s cabin near an old mill town, a ...

Malagash

By (author) Joey Comeau
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. Devastated doesn’t ...

Blood Fable

A utopian community is on the verge of collapse as the charismatic leader’s followers come to realize they’ve been exploited. At the same time, an 11-year-old son of one adherent learns his mother ...

Chief Lightning Bolt

With We Were Not the Savages, Daniel Paul changed the way the world understood the history of Eastern Canada and the fully developed civilization that existed before the arrival of the European explorers ...

Oracle Bone

By (author) Lydia Kwa
Categories: Horror and supernatural fiction

This extraordinary magic-realist novel by Singapore-born author Lydia Kwa employs and subverts traditional tropes of Chinese mythology to tell a tale with a wickedly modern sensibility. A subversive, ...

Song of Batoche

By (author) Maia Caron
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In her stunning debut novel, Métis author Maia Caron tells the story of the Riel Resistance on the Saskatchewan (1885) largely through the eyes of the Métis women involved, including Madeleine Dumont ...

Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons

Lucknow in 1856 is the most opulent city in India. If the English take over, the royal family and centuries of rich, cosmopolitan culture will disappear. Amah, personal bodyguard to the King, wants to ...

Once More with Feeling

By (author) Méira Cook
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In the tradition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge comes Once More with Feeling, an exquisitely crafted, beautifully written, and wholly delightful novel about the place we call home ...

The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories

By (author) Myrl Coulter
Categories: Short stories
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories, everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by secrets and absences. Coulter’s narratives portray relationships, loss, and what ...

No Fury Like That

No Fury Like That is a literary thriller about life and death—and the power of second chances. What is your moral compass? Julia Redner has to die in order to find her answer to this question. But is ...