Books set in Canada (186)


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21.

Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery EN

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A chronicle of Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together.

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Bad Cree : A Novel by Jessica Johns EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
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In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefron... continue

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Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain hi... continue

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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw : Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson EN

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The follow-up to the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour). Will Ferguson spent a three-year period criss-crossing Canada and back again. In a helicopter above the barrenlands of the sub-Arctic, in a canoe with his four-year-old son, aboard seaplanes and along the Underground Railroad, Will’s travels have taken him from Cape Spear on the coast of Newfoundland to the sun-dappled streets of Olde Victoria. In his last book, Will told us how to be Canadian; now in this book, he will tell us what it means to... continue

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Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson EN

Rating: 4.5 (3 votes)
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This remarkable and heart-warming prequel to the classic "Anne of Green Gables" has been specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.


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Boundary Waters by Tristan Hughes EN

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Canada 1804, the wild frontier. Arthur journeys into the wild wilderness in a birchbark canoe, with a ‘parcel of scoundrels’ led by the erratic drunkard McLeod. There is a treasure—a lost cache of valuable furs—its riches to be won. The tale is told to Esther, a Saulteaux woman he meets along the journey. Voyageurs were either ‘big wigs’, mostly Scotsmen, or ‘engagés’, mostly Frenchmen, then further divided according to skill and experience. Arthur being a novice, before his first experience of rapids, he undergoes a ‘baptism&rsquo... continue

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Brown Girl in the Ring

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson EN

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In this "impressive debut" from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city and herself. (The Washington Post) The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways -- farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and... continue

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Butter Honey Pig Bread : A Novel by Francesca Ekwuyasi EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
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Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award, and Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family but lives in fear of t... continue

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Camp Zero : A Novel by Michelle Min Sterling EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Description:
"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex worker to the elite is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group meant to... continue