Fiction: narrative themes

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Under Her Skin

By (author) Stephen Law
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

After her home is ransacked, her friend is attacked, and her white father suddenly reappears, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. In a narrative that ...

Chocolate Cherry Chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition for a life of experience and adventure, proving to herself and her mother that she is anything but a typical ...

Love Her Wild

By (author) Atticus
Categories: Poetry

The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.

Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured ...

Cadillac Road

Cadillac Road is the story of Sharon Desjardins, from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Québec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger ...

The Island of Books

By (author) Dominique Fortier
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.

A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, ...

Rich and Poor

By (author) Jacob Wren
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Who hasn’t, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature ...

Walt

From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard ...

Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder, The

By (author) Ashis Gupta
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Based on a true story, The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic tale of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken ...

Fugitive Horizons

By (author) Henry Beissel
Categories: Poetry
Series: Essential Poets Series

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become ...

Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds

By (author) Yvonne Harris
Categories: Historical fiction

Based on the inspiring, true story of a precocious young Inuit girl who is abandoned and left to fend for herself in the unforgiving Arctic North. This coming-of-age tale celebrates the indomitable will ...