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• Mindful of Murder

  a Novel

  Juby, Susan, 1969-

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  A comedic murder mystery by Susan Juby about Helen Thorpe, a newly trained butler and former Buddhist nun, who must investigate the suspicious death of her former employer at a spiritual retreat on a Canadian Gulf Island. Helen's unique background…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bones of a Giant

  a Novel

  Isaac, Brian Thomas

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  From the award-winning, bestselling author of All the Quiet Places, comes Brian Thomas Isaac's highly anticipated, haunting and tender return to the Okanagan Indian Reserve and a teenager's struggle to become a man in a world of racism and hardship.

• Greenwood

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  Greenwood is a 2019 novel by Canadian author Michael Christie that tells a multigenerational family saga set against the backdrop of environmental collapse, structured like the growth rings of a tree. The story begins in 2038 with botanist Jacinda…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woefield Poultry Collective

  [a Novel]

  Juby, Susan, 1969-

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  Prudence Burns, a well-intentioned New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, just inherited Woefield Farm—thirty acres of scrubland, dilapidated buildings, and one half-sheared sheep. But the bank is about to foreclose, so Prudence must turn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Spruce

  a True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

  Vaillant, John

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  On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monkey Beach

  Robinson, Eden

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  Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family's handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Corpse With the Golden Nose

  Ace, Cathy, 1960-

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  Sure that the award-winning owner of a family-run vineyard was murdered. Bud Anderson, Cait's companion for the weekend, is convinced the woman took her own life. That is, until death strikes once again, in the neat rows of grapevines that clamber…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tale for the Time Being

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  'A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.' In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  In this captivating new novel of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people -- a British exile on the West coast of Canada in the early 1900s, the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic, who embarks on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation