By Kathleen Winter
In 1968, into a remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. The parents decide to raise the child as a boy named Wayne.
Any Known Blood
By Lawrence Hill
Rich in historical detail and gracefully flowing from the slave trade of nineteenth-century Virginia to the present, Any Known Blood gives life to the story of five generations of a black Canadian family.
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
By Jan-Philipp Sendker
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia have any idea where he might be… until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of.
At Home
By Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson “writes a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on.
Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Thirteen-year-old Briony witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives brings about a crime that will change all their lives.
Ava Comes Home
By Lesley Crewe
Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It’s been ten years since she’s set foot in Glace Bay — back when she was plain old Libby MacKinnon. Why she ran away, no one knows.
Awake at a Wake
By David Muise
Stories from the Margarees: A Collection of Short Stories. A humorous collection of funny tales of two old bachelors living on their family farm in the Margaree Valley of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
