Books set in Canada (119)


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Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese EN

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Four homeless persons befriended by a journalist while taking shelter in a movie theater enlist his help after finding a winning lottery ticket.


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Run Towards the Danger : Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley EN

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*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. In this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing. Each of these six essays captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time exami... continue

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Sauvagines by Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba FR

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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"Pourquoi donc a-t-on tant besoin de posséder la beauté ? Et si on la laissait vivre en paix dans l'espoir de la recroiser un jour ?" Garde-forestière, Raphaëlle vit dans une cabane isolée au coeur de la forêt du Kamouraska. Pour rien au monde elle n'échangerait cette vie loin des hommes. Mais une nuit, sa chienne disparaît. Raphaëlle suspecte rapidement des braconniers et les prend en chasse. Elle ignore que, depuis l'ombre, des yeux la guettent. Dans cette nature aussi belle que féroce, proie et pr&eacut... continue

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Sea of Tranquility : A novel by Emily St. John Mandel EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. “One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived... continue

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Set on You by Amy Lea EN

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One of... Amazon's Best Romances of 2022 Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022 A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite ... continue

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Shut Up You're Pretty by Ta Mutonji, Tea Mutonji EN

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A high-wire collection of darkly humorous stories about a young woman floating in and out of her skin, trying on identities imposed on her by others.

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Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
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Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can al... continue

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Still Life : A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
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Read the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video. In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec. Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident a... continue