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Barnacle Love Anthony De Sa
The Blue Castle L. M. Montgomery
The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill
Cease to Blush Billie Livingston
The Cellist of Sarajevo Stephen Galloway
The Color of Lightning Paulette Jiles
Come, Thou Tortoise Jessica Grant
Conceit Mary Novik
Damage Done By the Storm Jack Hodgins
Exit Lines Joan Barfoot
The Flying Troutmans Miriam Toews
Good to a Fault Marina Endicott
Nikolski Nicolas Dickner
One Native Life (autobiography) Richard Wagamese
The Order of Good Cheer Bill Gaston
The Origin of Species Nino Ricci
The Outlander Gil Adamson
The Prairie Bridesmaid Daria Salamon
There Is a Season (memoir) Patrick Lane
The Toss of a Lemon Padma Viswahathan
the Portugese immigrant experience and how it affects a father-sonrelationship
Canadian classic. Valency's drab life is overturned by a shocking medicaldiagnosis
the life of Aminata Diallo, an African kidnapped as a child into slavery inSouth Carolina, freed in the Revolutionary War, then leaving Halifax forSierra Leone
after her feminist mother's death, Vivian finds clues that her mother led alife entirely unknown to her and sets out to discover it
BC author probes life in Sarajevo during the Bosnian Civil War
when his wife and children are captured during an Indian raid in Texas,Britt Johnson vows to bring them home or die trying
Oddly Flowers returns to Newfoundland after her father suffers an acciden
Vancouver writer's fictionalized life of Pegge, daughter of John Donne, the17th century poet and churchman
short story collection by acclaimed BC writer
funny and touching novel about four unlikely friends in a retirement home
her sister in a psychiatric hospital, Hattie sets off with her niece andnephew on a road trip to find their father
Clara Purdy takes in a family whose single mother is suffering from cancer
follows the lives of three young people in Montreal's Plateau district
from his cabin outside Kamloops, a First Nations writer looks back on hislife
story of Samuel de Champlain juxtaposed with present day problems ofAndy Winslow in Prince Rupert
Alex is floundering in Montreal when he meets people who begin to teachhim what it means to survive
Mary Boulton flees into the wild after murdering her husband
thirty-something Anna is trying to sort out her life – fortunately, her prairiegrandmother is there to help
BC poet re-examines his troubled past in the context of his garden
life of a Brahmin woman in early 20th century India
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