"When the smell of October's raked leaves gives way to that of morning frost, a mature Winnipeg man's fancy turns to thoughts of curling. But this fall Blackie Timmerman has been hogging stones off the ice. His wife of twenty years...
Fiction
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Author:Tregebov, MichaelSummary: -
Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
- Author:Macy, HaroldSummary:
"For Clayton Monroe, the last hope for refuge is a struggling setttlement at the far northwest corner of Vancouver Island. San Josef is his sanctuary from the imagined demons and real enemies who have pursued him for three decades, from...
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Author:Buday, GrantSummary:"In Grant Buday's new novel, three captivating stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a lifetime when...
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Author:Anderson-Dargatz, GailSummary:In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery. Owning a bakery isn't just about making dough.
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Author:Johnson, E. PaulineSummary:E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a...
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
In the mid 1890s, a whip toting cowgirl is bent on getting revenge on the man who murdered her brother. In the rough country outside Kamloops, B.C. she comes face to face with his killer.
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in...
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Author:Dower, TriciaSummary:It's 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and her hometown. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist...
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Author:Clark, KimSummary:"When Melanie Farrell visits the neurologist and is told she has multiple sclerosis she isn't surprised by the diagnosis. What does shock her is the related prognosis. It seems that based on a new study that she only has six orgasms...
