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  • Before The Road Came

    by Florida Town ...
    Sixty years ago, Britannia was the home of the largest copper mine in the British Empire. Several thousand people lived in its two main communities: the Townsite and the Beach. Although it was a scant 50 miles from Vancouver, it was accessible only by boat, as were its neighboring communities of Squamish and Woodfibre.In the years after WW2, copper prices plummeted, and Britannnia closed. For many ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Rim

    by Florida Ann Town ...
    Ellen is blindsided by her husband's request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in his name.Depressed and defeated, her life spirals out of control, until she impulsively decides to buy a bike and attempt the journey of a lifetime. Nervous and tenuous at first, she eventually gains strength and confidence and sets her sights on riding to California.Just as ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Waves

    by Florida Town ...
    Merribeth is getting ready for the regional swim meet finals - when her parents tell her she has to go to Arizona with her grandmother instead. It sounds like a trip to purgatory but it doesn't turn out that way. When her best friend, stage-struck Jennifer, is included in the trip, interesting things begin to happen. ... Read more

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  • Ask Me Again

    by Florida Ann Town ...
    Sahiras story is a tale of two friends, Sahira and Christie, who live next door to each other and became as close as sisters. Both are only children. Christie is part of a single-parent family, with her dad as her only parent. Sahira is the child of immigrants. The differences between the two seem unimportant at first, but as the girls reach their late teens, there are stark reminders of the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    by Astrid Blodgett ...
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  • The Butcher of Penetang

    by Betsy Trumpener ...
    Betsy Trumpener’s raw fiction hits quickly, cuts deeply and lingers on in the imagination. Her urgent, unique voice pushes fiction north of what’s real. The Butcher of Penetang carves up rare slices of savory stories that are both tough and delicious. A child missing in a dangerous part of town; a draft dodger with bloody hands; a robber armed with a hairbrush; a refugee who rescues poetry from ... Read more

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  • The Long White Sickness

    by Cecelia Frey ...
    On a remote lonely mountain, Constance (frustrated poet) skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein (brilliant author) loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson (the ex-husband who won the GG) is the suspect in the investigation of a murder that has taken place in Constance’s high-rise condo. The collision of this strange ménage a trois is at the heart of Cecelia ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Maxine

    by Claire Wilkshire ...
    Imagine a new life. Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start—a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she discovers is her neighbour’s nine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy’s constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents’ increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city, he slowly manages to reinvent ... Read more

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    by Nicole Lundrigan ...
    Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances emerges Stella, a woman who grapples with her family ghosts as they reach across the generations. ... Read more

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  • Braco

    by Lesleyanne Ryan ...
    WINNER OF THE 2011 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Lesleyanne Ryan’s debut novel, Braco, takes place over the five days fol¬lowing the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. The narrative follows the perspectives of Bosnian civilians, UN Peacekeepers, Serbian and Bosnian soldiers, as well as a Canadian photojournalist. A retired veteran and former Bosnian Peacekeeper, Ryan vividly captures the ... Read more

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