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Above the Falls
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In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni
River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines.
He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had
happened to the healthy young men? Had there been an accident, or was a killer on
the loose?
Dalziel, known as "The Flying Trapper," had a successful trapping operation along
the Flat, South Nahanni and Liard rivers. Using his small airplane to locate areas
rich in marten and beaver, he would leave his men in this wild country and drop
in from time to time to check on them and fly out the pelts. The authorities wanted
to shut Dal down. So when he saw the burned-down cabin, he knew he was in trouble.
In this suspenseful, fact-based novel, John Harris uses RCMP reports and the testimony
of local trappers to paint a vivid picture of a gripping winter chase, an unsolved
mystery and a now-vanished lifestyle in the great northern wilderness.
Right Away Monday
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A stormy novel of unlikely beauty, peopled by unforgettable
characters—including one Valentine Reid, Clayton’s burnt-out and battered rocker
uncle; the lovely though world-weary Monica; and the shrewd Mike Quinn, slum landlord
and owner of the Awl and Hatchet. Unnervingly authentic, these are the constituents
of a world grown weary and wasted, with a new generation stumbling blindly behind.
But oblivion is only skin deep. Beneath the wreckage of youthful distraction lie
the vast and abiding questions that haunt our quietest moments—questions of destiny,
fate, mortality and of our connections to one another. Ushering the chaos and uncertainty
of this dark bar-room universe into the bright intensity of Hynes’ unflinching gaze,
Right Away Monday will grab you by the throat and not let you go.
The Assassin's Song
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The magnificent new novel from the award-winning author
of "The In-Between World of Vikram Lall" stunningly evokes the intricate personal
drama of a man caught between filial obligation and personal yearning.
A Feast of Longing
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An intimate, powerfully written, collection of stories
featuring characters who seldom find themselves present in Canadian fiction - ordinary
middle class people."
A Feast of Longing" presents a fourteen-course banquet of characters whose common
thread is their own longing Ð for significance, for meaning in their lives, for
their troubles to pass, for guilt to let them go. Inspired by a charismatic speaker
to " side with the poor, " a woman volunteers at a charity soup kitchen and is intimidated
by one of the patrons she tries to befriend. A man whose son has been arrested for
several crimes tries to find some peace in regular visits to a church. A first year
university student reluctantly befriends her aunt's neighbour, a mentally challenged
woman.
With a poet's eye, ear and heart, sharpened over the creation of five collections
of verse, Sarah Klassen brings an insight into characters and a depth to her stories
that is not often found in short fiction. In every story optimism is present, but
is tempered by the presence, or at least the awareness, of " life's cruel underside,
" adding an extra power to the work.
Spook Country
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Gibson's first new book in four years is, like the
bestselling and critically acclaimed "Pattern Recognition," a contemporary novel
with international implications.
Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold
Kaletsch
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A thrilling novel based on a real-life experience.
Whenever possible, Reinhold Kaletsch, a German doctor and inventor with a passion
for the Canadian Shield, escapes to his farm in northern Manitoba, relishing its
severe beauty. Kaletsch has a taste for adventure, fulfilling his creed: a life
without risks is one not worth living.
One spring, Kaletsch sets out on a month-long camping trip accompanied solely
by his two dogs, Blondie and Simba. But a moment of carelessness leads to a serious
accident that thrusts the trio into a deadly situation. With debilitating injuries,
including a fractured spine, Kaletsch must rely on his intelligence, his knowledge
of bushcraft, his medical training, and his devoted canine companions, in a desperate
struggle for survival.
The Horseman's Graves
by Jacqueline Baker
Published 2007 by HarperCollins Canada
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 000200836X
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A tale of a small German immigrant community caught between
the promise of this new land and the weight of a European past, with its hatred,
fear and old-country superstitions. Lathias is a half-breed farmhand, a young loner
who becomes the unofficial guardian to the Schoff boy, a golden child until a terrible
farm accident scars his face and his mind. Both boys are drawn to Elisabeth, a savagely
beautiful girl, whose stepfather, Leo, is the local scapegrace, a man whose cruelty
is both a source of amusement and shame to the townspeople. When Elisabeth, watched
only by the Schoff boy, falls through the ice into the river, no one foresees how
it will be the end—and the beginning—of everything.
A Journeyman to Grief
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The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto
thirty-eight years later — in murder.
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the
border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch
is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve.
The owner of one of Toronto’ s livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped
and left hanging from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that a considerable
sum of money has been stolen. Then a second man is also murdered, his body strangely
tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto’
s small “ coloured” community has a vicious murderer in its midst — an investigation
that puts his own life in danger.
Maureen Jennings’ s trademark in her popular and acclaimed Detective Murdoch series
is to reveal a long-forgotten facet about life in the city that dispels any notion
that it really ever was “ Toronto the Good.” As well, in "A Journeyman to Grief,"
an exceptionally well plotted and engrossing story, she shows just how a great harm
committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
Baldwin Street
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This powerful novel presents a vivid mosaic of characters,
the rich fabric ofa community, and a boy's coming-of-age on the dusty, rough-and-tumble
streets of Toronto.
Bow Grip
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Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America's most beguiling
storytellers and the author of three story collections, including Loose End, which
was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. Bow Grip, Coyote's
first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted,
small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman
until a used cello and an acquaintance's suicide attempt compel him to make some
changes in his life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's true rite
of passage-trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's
as big as the endless prairie sky.
Daaku
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In the violent and ruthless world of Indo–Canadian gangs,
Ruby Pandher is on his way up. A self–described daaku (Punjabi for 'outlaw'), Ruby
learns young that might, in the form of hid drunken father’s fists, is right and
that money is easier to steal than earn. Ruby’s small–time scams reveal a knack
for leadership and after his first stint in youth detention, the big–timers start
to notice his potential. Soon, Ruby is doing collections for drug dealers and drawn
into a gang war. On the cusp of adulthood, and surrounded by terrorists, bikers,
and gangsters, Ruby is drawn like a moth to the glamour of the power, money, and
drugs.
Dead Man's Float
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Seventy-year-old Nathan Gelder's recent stroke has
done little to appease the obsessive dreams and memories of his parents--both of
whom died in the Holocaust--that haunt him relentlessly. While he remains in a paralyzed
state, questions of his involvement in the death of rock star Leonard Skye Barvis
begin to surface. Riots are staged worldwide and the media descends on him and his
family. This effortless juxtapositon of one of history's darkest episodes with late
20th-century popular culture comes to a poignant end--with shattering results--in
this haunting novel.