Canadian Fiction

Sandra-Model follows the exploits of a twelve-year-old, non-nude internet model, based in Los Angeles. It is a story of ambition, money, and sex in the context of familial and peer-group relationships. It investigates the world of preteen modeling web sites in an edgy, objective, and dry manner. Its primary subject is adolescent girls and their search for friendship and acceptance.

Dylan Campbell, a CSIS officer, has been undercover hundreds of times before and is ready to get out of the game. But before he can tell his bosses at the Canadian spy agency, he discovers a terrorist plot that could take him―and millions of others―out permanently. Getting the information up the chain of command proves complicated, though, when Dylan's cover is blown and he's captured and thrown in an African prison. Will he be the first test subject for the new and deadly virus about to be unleashed on the world? CIA officer Elizabeth Spencer is undercover for one reason―to find ...

Nazaire Poulin, a grain grower from Quebec, wants his old life back, but the sudden death of his spouse and the removal of his children have flipped his world upside down. He can’t afford seed money for his coming summer crop. He is a man lost. The Klondike Gold Rush has been over for a decade. Is it too late to find gold or a job rumored to pay six dollars a day? A spark of hope flashes in Nazaire’s body. Dare he go? Everything that Nazaire has is at risk as he ventures thousands of miles from home on a long shot. Many men have gone. Most returned broken. Some starved on the way.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Margaret's Patient: Margaret paused a moment at the gate and looked back at the quaint old house under its snowy firs with a thrill of proprietary affection.

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. They’re soon joined by Husha’s ex-lover, Nellie, who arrives without explanation to complete their trio. Also among them is a strange book, discovered by Husha while cleaning out her mother’s house.

Canada is collapsing. Economic and social pressures spawned by climate change have made the federation untenable. British Columbia has seceded from Canada, and Cascadia stretches from The Rockies to the Pacific, Alaska to the 49th parallel. Though a sanctuary amid global chaos, Cascadia is not safe. Internal divisions fueled by disparity and ethnicity have spawned violent protests. The beaches and borders are besieged with waves of desperate migrants and external powers conspire to obtain their natural resources on a planet all but depleted of them. The pressures and threats from without ...

A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

Enfin, le Grand tournoi international de Bâton-sur-Glace est sur le point de commencer! Ti-Guy et ses amis sont impatients d’unir leurs forces pour affronter leurs redoutables adversaires. Mais tout n’est pas rose durant cet événement.... Pendant que le capitaine s’interroge au sujet du comportement étrange de ses soeurs et de ses parents, Stanley Crosby, de son côté, tente par tous les moyens de remplacer son estimé collègue.

Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads Tarot and summons storm clouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad-of-the-Year demeanor, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it’s his dad, the uncannily named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the expressionless gazes of toads, small graves are continuously being dug: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children.

In this heartwarming holiday tale, bestselling author Sylvia Price brings to life the importance of family, forgiveness, and second chances. As the holiday season approaches, Beth Campbell's bed and breakfast is quiet, and she's looking forward to a little downtime with her boyfriend Sean Pennington. But when unexpected visitors arrive, including her son Brian, his wife, and their children, Beth's plans are turned upside down. Brian is determined to convince his mother to leave Nova Scotia and return home to Ottawa with him, but Beth has other ideas. Meanwhile, Beth’s daughter Lillie is ...

Mitchell’s novel follows Brian O’Connal, a young boy growing up in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Curious and eager to explore the impossibly vast Canadian prairie, Brian guides the listener through the inner workings of his small, rural town and its quirky characters. As Brian grows up, navigating faith, loss, and his relationships with his grandmother and his friends, we see him evolve alongside the changing landscape of small-town Canadian life.

This little yellow book about nothing reveals many secrets and was inspired by an imaginary political story that was said to have taken place in a mythical land called the Great White North not so long ago. The story in this novella is set in a lush green valley of the North Okanagan lands, in a barn on a large farm. In this tale, a coalition government of rogue coyotes plagued with ethics violations, scandals, fiscal malfeasance, and foolishness slowly comes to an end after a long reign of tyranny. The political landscape and power dynamics begins to shift as illiberal timber wolves move ...

Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch....

Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs.

Trois jeunes enseignantes s'envolent vers les plages de Cancún, au Mexique, profitant d'un forfait «tout inclus». Caroline rêve de lecture tranquille sous un palmier; Vicky, de séances de yoga au lever du soleil; Katia, d'une liaison passionnée avec un homme sans histoire… Résultat: échec sur toute la ligne!

Institutrice dans une humble école de rang de Saint-Tite, Émilie s'éprend d'un de ses élèves, Ovila Pronovost, à qui elle finit par unir sa vie, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

In the Dirty Thirties, jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada’s great railway hotels, is accepted. Tilly loves her new life in the Rocky Mountain town and the people she meets there. Local trail guide Ryan Blake is taken with Tilly’s sparkling blue eyes and mischievous sense of humor and thinks she is just the girl for him.

Wondering what it takes to get into heaven these days? B. Glen Rotchin takes us on one human’s whimsical encounter with his maker. In another story a cynical aging textile salesman's attempt to humor a Lubavitch boy unexpectedly brings him closer to personal truth. In the last story a fateful basketball game brings together two Jewish boys from opposite sides of a cultural divide. The author of two novels, The Rent Collector and Halbman Steals Home, the dark humour and layered meaning that characterize Rotchin's work are on fine display in these three poignant tales.

In the wake of World War II, a young, enigmatic woman named Lily arrives in Montreal on her own, expecting to be married to a man she's never met. But upon seeing her at the train station, Sol Kramer turns her down. Out of pity, his brother Nathan decides to marry her instead, and pity turns into a deep - and doomed - love. It is immediately clear that Lily is not who she claims to be.

Mon nom est Samuel et, aujourd’hui, c’est ma fête. YI-PIIII! Non... ARK, plutôt... Parce que, dans ma famille, on ne donne pas des cadeaux qui fonctionnent avec des piles. Alors, tu comprends ce que ça veut dire, HEIN? Encore et encore des cadeaux FULL poches. Parmi les niaiseries sans intérêt que j’ai reçues, il y a ce journal. Ma mère m’a dit que ça va être l’fun d’y écrire ce que je vis et TOUT ce qui me passe par la tête.