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The Republic of Nothing opens in the 1950s on Whalebone Island at the moment Everett McQuade decides to commemorate the birth of his son by declaring the island's independence. In this world of deliberate eccentricity, almost anything can happen. A treasure?trove of objects wash up on shore — including...

Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between high school and university, early 1970s version. Equipped...

Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. And in this collection, we have choice Choyce. Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial stories including "Dance the Rocks Ashore," a bittersweet account of an elderly couple's decline; the hilarious and bizarre "My...

Winner, Dobbie Literary Award, FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist Award, and The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society’s strict conventions and indifferent art critics...

The Legend of Rachel and Ethan continues after the American Civil War into Reconstruction. Together at last, the young couple has returned to Catahoula Plantation to begin their lives together, but the war has changed everything. The southern economy is broken, and racial tensions reach new...

A gritty tale of how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love for fans of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone from Gale Massey, a talented new name in crime fiction. Everyone says the Elders family are nothing but cheats, thieves, and convicts—a fact nineteen-year old Jamie Elders has been...

A creepy collection of tales from the beyond to give you shivers and make you want to sleep with the lights on. What happens when we die? Do we keep doing what we've always done? Where does a faith healer's power to heal come from, and can they heal the wicked? They say we can't take it with us when...

Sifted is book #2 in the A Recipe for Love series, and is the conclusion of Emily and Declan's story. It is told from Declan's point of view.I asked her to have hope, faith, and trust in us, and then I did the unthinkable: I left.Now, it's time for me to return and to...

Miss Belle Saunders feels trapped in a life of servitude as Mistress of Saint Anne's orphanage. Her selfish boss, Mr. Graynger hasn't given her a day off in over a decade. In desperate need of a change of scenery, Belle decides it's time to visit two girls previously under her care - Charlotte and Beth,...

Fiona Knox lost her fiancé and her flower shop—but when she flies to Scotland to inherit her godfather’s cottage and possibly magical walled garden, she may lose her life as well when she’s swept into a murder investigation. Florist Fiona Knox’s life isn’t smelling so sweet these...

**USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves! Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book...

Red-haired orphan Beth Edwards is both thrilled and flattered to receive a letter - personally asking her to become Earl Mason's bride. Not only has it been adorably written by his 8 year old son Junior, he's also from Conrad, Montana and that's where her dearest friend Charlotte has recently married...

All Alice Hamilton wants is a happy family life. But after her father is murdered, and Alice becomes the object of a manhunt, she must flee, and fast! So flee she does - from Texas to Seattle, and then to Montana - into the strong arms of blacksmith Gabe Calhoun - to become his mail order bride. At...

"The rich and poor don't mix!"With these words, 18 year old Madeline Conner has two weeks to leave her dear mother and her home in Seattle.After reading a very unusual request for a mail order bride, she travels to Conrad, Montana to meet her cowboy groom, whose letter said, *"I love surprises more...