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-- One hundred Canadian heroines.c2004., Dundurn Group Call No: 920.72 F756o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Meet some remarkable women in Canadian history, from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. Women who made significant achievements in science, sport, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and many other fields."--BOOK JACKET.
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2019., Invisible Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Sur Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love, obsession, and everything in between. Araceli loves Adrien. Adrien loves Pénélope. Pénélope marries Gabriel, who is tormented by the search for the father he never knew. Set in Montreal, but spiralling out across Canada, Bindu Suresh’s debut novel deftly reveals the devastating consequences of betrayal and commitment, of grief and hope."--.
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-- Eighty percent minority2003., Penguin Canada Call No: 658.804 T463e Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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Ã2016., Livres DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Hen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul, ' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hopeful of being freer of her ex. Until she realizes the crazy cost of disentangling herself, and not just from him or his 'associates.' Old World skepticism kicks at New World concerns in Acqua Sacra, Keith Henderson's brisk new novel about private deception and public corruption. His cast includes an honest architect, a gutsy office clerk, the modern-day witch of a drained lake, and at least one (reformed) dirt-digging lawyer. But what is Suzanna to do when the mob and their extralegal cross-border political shenanigans invade her life? While Montreal's underworld seems as full of venomous snakes and mean dogs as the Abruzzo mountains, Roman history, Italian mafiosi, dutiful Canadians, and migrant African workers collide, headlong and bizarrely comedic. At the centre of the crash, stunned and sheep-like, lies Suzanna. Henderson, the author ofThe Roof Walkers, again delivers an entertaining and perceptive story in Acqua Sacra about the nature of personal responsibility, this time in an age of multinational delinquency. If Suzanna survives the wreckage, it'll be by honouring the true meaning of 'family' in any global village."--
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2018., Meraki House Publishing Call No: Fic Lec Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Who tried to kill Kerry Chapman?Can psychotherapy help Kerry to restart her life or is she forever doomed to be a victim?Actions, a story about guilt and betrayal, exposes the dynamics of self-destructive behaviour in therapy sessions between Kerry and her psychiatrist.Anyone who has questioned why they became entangled in the misery of a no-win relationship will find it compelling reading.
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2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic MacD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love. Mary-Rose MacKinnon is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing to semi-retire in her early 40s. She lives in a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood with her partner and their two young children trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance her creative pursuits with domestic demands. As a child, Mary-Rose suffered from an illness, long since cured and "filed separately" - in her mind. But as her frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms.
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c2012., General, HarperCollins Canada, Limited Call No: Fic Ber Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life. Church, marriage to a steady young man, children - her fortunes are already laid out for her, as are the shiny modern appliances in her new home. All she has to do is stay with Roy, who loves her. But as the decades unfold, what seems to be a safe, predictable existence overwhelms Hope. An indelible portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman who struggles to accept herself as she is, and in so doing becomes unique."--Publisher.
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By Off, Carol2017., General, Random House Canada Call No: Bio O32a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The gripping story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. And behind the scenes, there are the unflagging efforts of one of Canada's most respected journalists, CBC Radio's Carol Off, working assiduously to help the family achieve freedom and a promising future. In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became key to their documentary on the terrible power of thuggish warlords who were working arm in arm with Americans and NATO troops. When Asad publicly exposed the deeds of one particular warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, it set off a chain of events from which there was no turning back. Asad, his wife, Mobina, and their five children had to flee their home. Their only chance for a peaceful life was to emigrate - yet year after year of agonizing limbo would ensue as they were thwarted by a Byzantine international bureaucracy and the decidedly unwelcoming policies of Stephen Harper's government. One family's journey and fraught attempts to immigrate to a safe place, and what happens when a journalist becomes deeply involved with the people in her story and is unable to leave them behind. Carol Off is the host of CBC Radio's As It Happens, the network's flagship evening radio programme"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Tout ce qu'il fautBy Cimon, Anne2002., Borealis P. Call No: 811.54 C573al Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Awad, Mona2021., Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Awa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When an accident ended Miranda Fitch's acting career, she was left with chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director as well. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead.
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2018., FriesenPress Call No: Bio P253a Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Always seemingly happy and talkative, the author shares the darkest secrets of her sixteen-year battle with an eating disorder. Hiding her insecurities "behind the mask" of a seemingly perfect life, Andrea struggles to be present in the moment even when surrounded by family and friends. Every moment, of each day, her thoughts and energy are consumed by body image concerns, distorted thoughts around food, and other mental health issues. Andrea often finds herself feeling "Alone in a Crowd" despite her professional knowledge and caring family. Her husband also shares his unique "partner's perspective," describing the stressors of being in a relationship consumed by a disordered-eating addiction. He candidly describes his frustrations, and feelings of powerlessness and betrayal, in their fight against food. Eventually, they both realize that a shift in mindset would be necessary for their marriage to survive. With the help of professional counselling services and personal reflection, Andrea is able to gain control over her self-harming ways. Despite overcoming this deadly addiction she soon discovers that "Life" doesn't stand up to applaud her accomplishment, but instead throws more hurdles her way including her recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis....
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c2014., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Gal Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: These marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose.
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2010., PublishAmerica Call No: BLK Fic Gau Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: AMINATA is a successful metisse who builds international empires. But hasn't forgotten her nightmarish years as an orphan in Senegal. She vowed to repay the sins visited upon her family. Her story is of a daring, yet vulnerable woman who uses any means to scale the peaks of money and power but with the heart to give it up for the love that would make her life whole. The hero, a rich French nobleman, helps her locate one of the ex-soldiers. Aminata temporarily loses her man but perseveres while her enemies plot her demise and that of her empire. Aminata of Casamance combines historical facts with fictional characters. I have lived in all the places mentioned and created a fictional hero heroine who I think readers will sympathize with. Their difficulties lead to many international adventures and intrigues but end happily.
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2012., General, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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1993, 1909., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Mon Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![Anne of Avonlea [LP]](/Library/images/~imageCT80172.JPG "Anne of Avonlea [LP]")
