Posts Tagged ‘canadian’
Mitzi Bytes
Sarah Lundy has a secret online life, and it might all come crashing down. Back at the beginning of the new millennium, when the Internet was still unknown territory, Sarah Lundy started an anonymous blog documenting her return to the dating scene after a devastating divorce. The blog was funny, brutally honest and sometimes outrageous.…
Read MoreNever Cry Wolf
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be–the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer–which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself.” –from the new Preface Never Cry Wolf is a brilliant narrative on the myth and magic…
Read MoreOwls in the Family
Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighbourhood? Owls in the Family is a delightfuly treasure to be read again and again, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In this exciting story for…
Read MoreUnder Heaven
In a setting that evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China, an unforgettable story of honour, treachery, and love vividly brought to life by the acclaimed novelist Guy Gavriel Kay. To honour the memory of his recently deceased father, a celebrated general who led the forces of the empire in its last great war…
Read MoreA Stranger in the House
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can’t account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart You come home after a long day at work, ready for dinner with your wife. But she’s not there.…
Read MoreTom Thomson’s Last Bonfire
Children of Earth and Sky
The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands–where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a…
Read MoreLost in the Barrens
As thrilling to read now as when it was first published, Farley Mowat’s bestselling tale of danger, survival, and companionship in the far North is now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic…
Read MoreThe Only Cafe
Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death–a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon. Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father,…
Read MoreThe Day the World Came to Town
“For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a…
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