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Hummingbird Dance (A): A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan
Garry Ryan
Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third installment of the Detective Lane Mystery Series in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever increasing body count and suspect list.
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Icefields
Thomas Wharton
Thomas Wharton
Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies.
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Incident at Willow Creek
Don Hunter
Don Hunter
As Liz Thomas desperately attempts to piece together reports on a life she never knew her mother had, she discovers a family secret so tragic that it was kept under lock-and-key for over sixty years of Canadian history.
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I’m Frankie Sterne
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes
Covering a twenty-five year period, I’m Frankie Sterne is the story of one man’s growth to maturity during the 50s, 60s, and early 70s.
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Jumping Off
Laura Cutler
Laura Cutler
Who are the women that surround us? What’s going on inside the women that we pass on the street, talk to, work with, live with, grew up with, and even love? Laura J. Cutler’s new stories have some answers that may be surprising.
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Magpie's Smile (A)
Eugene Meese
Eugene Meese
When the scalped remains of a Jane Doe are discovered within the rubble of a demolished house, Detective Jake Fry is assigned the task of hunting down Calgary’s most disturbed murderer.
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Man Who Beat the Man (The)
F.B. André
F.B. André
An accomplished and enthralling collection of short stories. Many stories deal with displacement from one culture to another, while others look back at an isolated moment or event that somehow effects and alters the lives of the characters.
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Misshapen
Robert Budde
Robert Budde
One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on the ground.
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Moon Honey
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr
A funny, sexy tale of love affairs, magical transformation, and happy endings. The question is, can love be relied on to save the day?
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Ruins & Relics
Alice Zorn
Alice Zorn
Alice Zorn’s remarkable debut collection of short stories displays talismans of personal history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.
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Running Toward Home
Betty Jane Hegerat
Betty Jane Hegerat
Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, 12 year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away.
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Santa Rosa
Wendy McGrath
Wendy McGrath
A poetic prose novella in which a child observes the disappearance of her neighbourhood mirrored in the disintegration of her parents' marriage.
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Seal Intestine Raincoat
Rosie Chard
Rosie Chard
A cautionary tale for our times, Chard's debut novel offers a bleak portrayal of socio-economic collapse resulting from an unsustainable way of life.
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Smoked: A Detective Lane Mystery
Garry Ryan
Garry Ryan
Detective Lane returns for a fourth time in Smoked, Garry Ryan’s darkest mystery to date.
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Talon
Paulette Dubé
Paulette Dubé
Timothy Findley calls Dubé’s debut novel "a stunning acheivement." The descendants of a French Canadian woman—Rubis Caillou Morin—discover the truth about healers and the unshakeable code of loyalty that rules their family.
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The Darkening Archipelago
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault
The Cole Blackwater environmental mystery series continues with a race to keep both human souls and natural ecosystems from falling into darkness.
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Thirst to Die For (A)
Ian Waddell
Ian Waddell
A timely and nail-biting mystery about corrupt politicians and water exports. MP Clayton Greene discovers that something fishy is happening to the water of BC, and a thrilling and fast-paced adventure ensues. Author Ian Waddell is a former MP from BC.
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Touch
Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese
Anna Gareau has a secret. Unwanted visions of strangers’ lives haunt her when she touches certain objects. What she wants most is a normal life but Anna is far from normal.
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Vanilla and Other Stories
Candas Jane Dorsey
Candas Jane Dorsey
A collection of twenty-five years of mainstream and slipstream short fiction by Candas Jane Dorsey. In this work, Dorsey renders candid, real takes on life in her distinctive prose.
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West End Murders
Roy Innes
Roy Innes
When a series of murders threatens the lives of an entire community in Vancouver, RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore and Inspector Coswell team up once again to solve the case.
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West Wind North Chatter
Deanna Kent-McDonald
Deanna Kent-McDonald
Pouring all your savings into opening the first trendy internet café in Grande Prairie may seem like a risky venture, but to Emily Reeves it was the perfect way to start anew.
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Western Taxidermy
Barb Howard
Barb Howard
A sneakily funny collection of stories featuring strong, contemporary western Canadian women.
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Wheel Keeper (The)
Robert Pepper-Smith
Robert Pepper-Smith
From the late 1800s on, many peasants left southern Italy to work in the vineyards of British Columbia. The Wheel Keeper is the story of a child in a family of immigrants, and is about the ways children overcome fragmentation through ritual, identi
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Whipstock
Barb Howard
Barb Howard
Whipstock is a humorous tall tale exploring the literal, metaphorical and narrative links between pregnancy and Alberta's petroleum industry.
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White Lies (for my mother)
Liza Potvin
Liza Potvin
Based on fifteen years of her own journal entries, the author explores her scattered memories of being sexually abused by her father and grandfather and the impact of this abuse upon her relationship with her mother.
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Whiter Shade of Pale (A)/Becoming Emma
Caterina Edwards
Caterina Edwards
Two novellas that pull the reader into the sensual worlds of two individuals who are trying to find personal meaning and identity amid the struggle to reconcile present regrets with the events and actions of the past.
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Widows (The)
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr
Daring to defy a world that believes old women should not be seen or heard, three women steal a barrel from a travelling show and plan to go over Niagara Falls.
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Wonderfull
William Neil Scott
William Neil Scott
When Emma Brodie, local prophet and mother of three, steals a boat and exiles herself to the middle of the bay for seven days and seven nights, she sets about a chain of strange and wonderful events in the village of Garfax.
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