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  • THE SWEETNESS IN THE LIME
    STEPHEN KIMBER
    "Part love story, part mystery, this engrossing tale of Cuban-Canadian connections . . . gets to the heart of what can happen when we cross borders." —Karen Dubinsky, author of  Cuba Beyond the Beach   Eli Cooper is a resolutely single, fifty-something newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary "thats" and his days caring for a demented fa...

    $159.00

  • GOOD MOTHERS DON'T
    LAURA BEST
    "The story of a woman in crisis and her quest, fifteen years later, to apologize to her children and fill in the blanks of her mind." — The Globe and Mail It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in Nova Scotia. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, want...

    $229.00

  • FOUND DROWNED
    LAURIE GLENN NORRIS
    Based on a 19th century unsolved murder, this "artfully constructed" historical novel explores family life and a mysterious death in the Maritime Provinces (Quill & Quire).   Nova Scotia, 1876. Sixteen-year-old Mary Harney is a dreamer who wants more than anything to escape her family's Cumberland County homestead. Terrorized by her alcoholic father, she receives cold comfort f...

    $149.00

  • MAKING IT HOME
    ALISON DELORY
    One family from Canada and another from Syria search for a sense of home in a novel written "with love and empathy towards the refugee experience" (Ahmad Danny Ramadan, award-winning author of  The Clothesline Swing).   Shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize   Tinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family...

    $229.00

  • BEHOLDEN
    LESLEY CREWE
    The author of  Relative Happiness—now an award-winning film—"shines a light on the secrets and lies that bind generations of Cape Breton families" ( Toronto Star).   The story begins with Nell, the "spinster on the hill" near St. Peter's, Cape Breton. Scarred by her own childhood, she swears she could never love a child and that she will never marry, denying herself a life with...

    $229.00

  • IN THE WAKE
    NICOLA DAVISON
    Suspense builds slowly in this debut novel as two families deal with trust, mental illness, and ghosts from the past along the Canadian Atlantic coast.   When Emily and her family move back to Nova Scotia from Calgary, it is a return to the coastal landscape that already haunts her—and the waters where her father died. She meets her neighbors Linda, a gruff but loving widow, an...

    $149.00

  • MARY, MARY
    LESLEY CREWE
    A story of family malfunction. The Leacock Medal-longlisted novel from the author of  Relative Happiness—now an award-winning feature film.     In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery...

    $229.00

  • WHAT KILLS GOOD MEN
    DAVID HOOD
    An Arthur Ellis Award Shortlisted Title for Best First Novel.  "A layered, complex mystery novel, teeming with a gallery of memorable characters."  — Atlantic Books Today   On an October night in 1899 the body of a well-regarded city councilman is found floating under a Halifax wharf.    Detective Inspector Culligan Baxter embarks on an investigation that leads from the waterfr...

    $149.00

  • AMAZING GRACE
    LESLEY CREWE
    "A warm-hearted story of one woman's journey from a dark and abusive childhood into the light of acceptance and love" from the author of  Relative Happiness ( Atlantic Books Today).   Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest?   Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lake in postcard-perfect...

    $229.00

  • LAST LULLABY
    ALICE WALSH
    A debut mystery of small-town intrigue from the award-winning author. "Gripping . . . a satisfying and nicely-paced page turner." — The Telegram   Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first ap...

    $149.00

  • THE FUNDY VAULT
    LINDA MOORE
    A criminologist on vacation on the pristine Bay of Fundy uncovers a deadly conspiracy in this literary mystery by the author of  Foul Deeds.   After working for a private investigator for years, Rosalind has finally landed a real job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service. And now she's taking her first paid vacation. With her cat and a stack of Beckett plays, Rosal...

    $149.00

  • MACLEAN
    ALLAN DONALDSON
    In this novel set over the course of a day, an alcoholic, Canadian, World War I veteran attempts to find peace while shopping for a birthday present. Twenty-five years after the Great War, John Maclean is still struggling to carve out a meaningful existence in his small New Brunswick hometown. One late summer day he embarks on a seemingly prosaic search for a little money, a li...

    $149.00