Category: Canadian Fiction

Double Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured prose.

The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla w...
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In-Between World of Vikram Lall

By: Vassanji, M. G.

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Anchor Canada: January 2004

Seller ID: 21469

ISBN: 0385659911

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla w...
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The Book of Secrets: A Novel

By: Vassanji, M.G.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Picador: February 1997

Seller ID: 60971

ISBN: 0312150687

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

By: Viswanathan, Padma

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: February 2015

Seller ID: 2595

ISBN: 0307356353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A national bestseller and finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao is a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors.
In 2004, almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver that killed 329, two suspects --finally--are on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do a "study of comparative grief," interviewing people who lost loved...
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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

By: Viswanathan, Padma

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: February 2015

Seller ID: 41438

ISBN: 0307356353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Glass Harmonica

By: Wagersky, Russell,Wangersky, Russell

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Thomas Allen & Son: May 2010

Seller ID: 59000

ISBN: 088762524X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Crying for the Moon: A Novel

By: Walsh, Mary

Price: $11.50

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: October 2017

Seller ID: 50993

ISBN: 1443410373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A page-turner with an indelible heroine." --Ann-Marie MacDonald

Canadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s Newfoundland

Raised on tough love in St. John's, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but only when he's drunk). If life at home is difficult, then school is torture, with the nuns watching every move she makes. But Maureen wants a bigg...
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Whirl Away

By: Wangersky, Russell

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Thomas Allen & Son: March 2012

Seller ID: 8288

ISBN: 0887629369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Whirl Away

By: Wangersky, Russell

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Thomas Allen & Son: March 2012

Seller ID: 22923

ISBN: 0887629369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cool Water

By: Warren, Dainne

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Harper Collins Canada: January 2010

Seller ID: 38621

ISBN: 1554685591

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town -- the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people -- and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century -- old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.

But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a s...
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The only good Indian: Essays by Canadian Indians

By: Waubageshig,

Price: $13.95

Publisher: New Press: January 1974

Seller ID: 49708

ISBN: 0887700160

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best Kind of People

By: Whittall, Zoe

Price: $11.50

Publisher: House of Anansi Pr: August 2016

Seller ID: 29828

ISBN: 1770899421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best Kind of People

By: Whittall, Zoe

Price: $11.50

Publisher: House of Anansi Pr: August 2016

Seller ID: 42664

ISBN: 1770899421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best Kind of People

By: Whittall, Zoe

Price: $9.95

Publisher: House of Anansi Pr: August 2016

Seller ID: 54384

ISBN: 1770899421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Lovely Enemy

By: Wiebe, Rudy

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Viking Pr: January 1983

Seller ID: 56212

ISBN: 0771089899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Peace Shall Destroy Many

By: Wiebe, Rudy

Price: $19.95

Publisher: 1962

Seller ID: 56214

ISBN: 281BQL1003027

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Temptations of Big Bear

By: Wiebe, Rudy

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McClelland and Steward Limited: January 1984

Seller ID: 51461

ISBN: 0771092229

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

" What can that mean, I and my family will have a ' reserve of one square mile' ?"
So asks Big Bear of Governor Morris, come to impose a square treaty on the round, buffalo-covered world of the Plains Cree. As the buffalo vanish and the tension builds to the second Riel Rebellion, Big Bear alone of the prairie chiefs keeps up pressure for a better treaty by refusing to choose a reserve. He argues, " If any man has the right to put a rope around another man' s neck, some day someone will get choked."
It is Big Bear' s story - and the story of Wandering Spirit, of Kitty McLean and John M...
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Before I Wake

By: Wiersema, Robert J.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2006

Seller ID: 4126

ISBN: 0679313745

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

They say there are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth. In Before I Wake, debut novelist Robert J. Wiersema cleverly introduces a multitude of voices to tell this astonishing story of loss, redemption and forgiveness. And the truth? Well, when miracles start happening around Sherry Barrett, a three-year-old girl in a coma, explanations of a rational kind no longer seem important.

Injured by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street, Sherry Barrett lies in a hospital where her doctors say she will never wake up. Her distraught parents, Karen and Simon, make the...
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Before I Wake

By: Wiersema, Robert J.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: 2006

Seller ID: 61386

ISBN: 0679313737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

They say there are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth. In Before I Wake, debut novelist Robert J. Wiersema cleverly introduces a multitude of voices to tell this astonishing story of loss, redemption and forgiveness. And the truth? Well, when miracles start happening around Sherry Barrett, a three-year-old girl in a coma, explanations of a rational kind no longer seem important.
Injured by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street, Sherry Barrett lies in a hospital where her doctors say she will never wake up. Her distraught parents, Karen and Simon, make the painfu...
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Category: Canadian Fiction