Made in Canada
- Turtle Valley
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Kat returns to her family home in Turtle Valley to help her elderly parents prepare to evacuate due to an encroaching forest fire. Kat is lonely and frustrated in her marriage to a man who has been brain-damaged by a stroke. She was a writer, but hasn't written anything for the past six years. Then she sees Jude again, an old lover who lives nearby, who reminds her of everything she once was and could have been. - Breaking Lorca
Blunt, Giles
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later - in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America - still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim. - Through Black Spruce
Boyden, Joseph
When beautiful Suzanne Bird disappears, her sister Annie, a loner and hunter, is compelled to search for her, leaving behind their uncle Will, a man haunted by loss. Both eventually come to painful discoveries about the inescapable ties of family. - Broken Angel: a novel
Brouwer, Sigmund
Caitlyn, a young girl with physical deformities, lives in a society ruled by fundamentalists and tries to escape to the "Outside" as she is pursued by the Bar Elohim group, who want to use her for experimental purposes. - Late Nights on Air
Hay, Elizabeth
Accepting a position at a northern Canadian radio station in 1975, Dido Paris disarms a hard-bitten broadcaster with her beauty and vocal talents while controversy surrounding a proposed gas pipeline triggers call-in-listener debates on the air. - The Book of Negroes
Hill, Lawrence
Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king. - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: stories
Lam, Vincent
Twelve interwoven stories follow the lives of a group of young doctors as they make their way from medical school to the world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and research into new viruses, dealing with challenges and moral dilemmas along the way. - Too Much Happiness
Munro, Alice
Nine new short works by the National Book Critics Circle-winning author of Love of a Good Woman include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian emigre's winter journey to the Riviera. - Divisadero
Ondaatje, Michael
Claire is fleeing from the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister. Along with Coop, an enigmatic young man who lived with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present. - The Flying Troutmans
Toews, Miriam
Follow the Troutmans as they learn about themselves and each other through chaos as diverse as their personalities, while embarking on a journey across the United States weathering sleazy motel rooms, car repairs, and bizarre people.