The characters who populate The Emptiest Quarter live at both the centre and the fringes of the conflict between preservation and progress, including sheikhs, western oil-and-gas men, burned-out journalists, pearl divers, and Filipina caregivers, all striving to find themselves, to find love, to find balance in ever-shifting sands.
Landon and Joy share an instant connection, and within a matter of days, they buy a beautiful but troubled house together. However, when the heat of summer--and their initial infatuation--begins to wane, the two realize how little they know about each other and the house they now call home. In the Country In the Dark is a thrilling psychological exploration of the secrets we keep--and the lengths we might go to keep them.
Housekeeper Prudence Crick is cat-sitting while Gerry is travelling, but ghosts of the past haunt her, including her murdered bank robber ex-husband. When two houses are burned to the ground, she's drawn to the scene of the crime and into the lives of its victims, including one uncatchable cat.
The eleven interconnected stories in The World is But a Broken Heart follow the Fitzpatricks, a blue-collar family constantly followed by bad luck. This coming-of-age collection of stories is a testament to the human spirit and the unbreakable bond between brothers
Dan Yashinsky's son Jacob died tragically in a car accident at the age of 26 when Dan fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. All his life, Jacob had struggled with Prader-Willi Syndrome, but rather than let it defeat him, he became an advocate for people suffering from PWS as well as people coping with various other disabilities. His voice has been captured and carried in this unique book, which goes beyond the terrible grief of losing a child to preserving and sharing his story.
Summer tourists and cottagers have flocked to the lakeshore at Cullen Village, including the four Borthwicks siblings, who own--and squabble over--Hazeldean, a heritage cottage. When one of the family members is found dead under suspicious circumstances, the Major Crimes Unit is called. Roxanne Calloway, who has moved to a what is normally a quieter life as the head of the local RCMP detachment, finds herself drawn in to the investigation.
Struggling mystery author Claire Denman is enjoying a relaxing vacation at her brother's secluded house in the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia after helping a wealthy elderly woman move her cats...
This Side of Light is Carolyn Marie Souaid's ninth book of poetry. Selected and introduced by Governor General award-winning poet Arleen Pare, this timely volume celebrates the evolution and...
Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she is in a regularly scheduled, routine session with the department therapist to talk through...
Sergeant Roxanne Calloway has left the RCMP's Major Crimes Unit and moved to Fiskar Bay to keep herself out of harm's way, but with a cop killer on the loose, she isn't sure who she can trust. Can Roxanne find the killer before it's too late?
In Accidents, her third collection of poems, Genni Gunn takes us on a roller coaster ride through past and present in different continents, to explore the various upheavals that alter our...
Canadian literary star Gordon Bridge is delighted with his celebrity, his famiy, and his bond with fellow writer Taylor Shepherd, whom he has been friends with since they were teenagers. Bridge publishes...
The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. These stories do not shy away from...
It's late spring and young artist Gerry Coneybear and her twenty cats are thrilled to finally be able to get outside. Her neighbours' marriage isn't quite what it should be, and as events unfold next door, Gerry watches from her garden. When the philandering husband is murdered, the wife is the obvious suspect. Or ought to be.
Opening night of the season at Winnipeg?s Prairie Theatre Centre is a glittering event on the city's arts calendar, and this October, there is real drama happening offstage. Gerald Blaise, the company's...
Fueled by our perpetual need to find meaning and purpose in our lives, Primal Sketches is a book that considers how our actions profoundly effect the lives of fellow humans as well as the...
