I Am a Truck

By (author) Michelle Winters
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

Agathe and Réjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary when Réjean’s beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of ...

A Killer in King's Cove

By (author) Iona Whishaw
Categories: Historical crime and mysteries
Series: A Lane Winslow Mystery

A clever postwar mystery that will appeal to fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear or the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd. It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer ...

Spanish Boy, The

By (author) C.S. Reardon
Categories: Crime and mystery fiction

Grief cannot abide a mystery. In 1937, the Clareys are a close and loving family—until their lives are transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter and sister, vanishes, leaving no clue as to what ...

One Man Dancing

By (author) Patricia Keeney
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series

A novel about political survival, personal belief, salvation through suffering, and the transforming power of art.

One Man Dancing is based on the true story of Charles, a young Ugandan actor-dancer, growing ...

Niagara Motel

By (author) Ashley Little
Categories: Alternative history fiction

In this disarming cross-country odyssey set in the 1990s, an 11-year-old boy searches for his father.

Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little’s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang ...

The Break

By (author) Katherena Vermette
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel ...

Fire in the Stars

By (author) Barbara Fradkin
Categories: Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Series: An Amanda Doucette Mystery

A former aid worker returns home haunted by her time in Africa and channels her pain into a murder investigation that’s all too personal.

After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid ...

Strangers Among Us

Edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
By (author) Kelley Armstrong & James Alan Gardner & Edward Willett & Suzanne Church & A.M. Dellamonica & Gemma Files & Bev Geddes & Erika Holt & Tyler Keevil & Rich Larson & Derwin Mak & Mahtab Narsimhan & Sherry Peters & Ursula Pflug & Robert Runté & Hayden Trenholm & Lorina Stephens & Amanda Sun & A.C. Wise
Introduction by Julie Czerneda
Categories: Science fiction
Series: Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction

Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors explore the delicate balance between mental health and mental illness and how the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, ...

A Second Coming

By (author) Michael Mirolla
Edited by Don Mulcahy
Categories: Anthologies: general
Series: Essential Anthologies Series

“You will lose yourself in this collection of stories by some of Canada’s most imaginative authors. Each tale takes you to a different place (physical or psychological) that is both familiar and strange. ...

The Dancehall Years

By (author) Joan Haggerty
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

“A major accomplishment. ” – Jack Hodgins, author of Broken Ground

This enriching, complex family saga and interracial drama brims with beautiful prose. It begins one summer on Bowen Island during ...