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Oh, Canada! Level up with these stories from our neighbor to the north

Updated April 13, 2025
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Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
Read the timeless classic about the beloved Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery spirit, behind the hit Netflix series Anne with an E-now celebrating a hundred years of this children's favorite. " Anne is the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the...
The blind assassin
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Digital file
“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s...
The blue castle
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As she expands her limited horizons, Valancy undergoes a transformation, discovering a new...
Crow Lake
Lawson, Mary
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The stellar debut novel from Mary Lawson (A Town Called Solace)--a shimmering tale of love, death and redemption set in a rural northern community where time stands still A gorgeous, slow-burning story of family love and misunderstandings, of...
The cunning man
Davies, Robertson
Paper Book
This novel of a doctor’s life shows Robertson Davies at his elegant and entertaining best. “‘Never neglect the charms of narrative for the human heart,’ said Mr. Ramsay.” And we are back at Colborne College listening to the history teacher Dunstan Ramsay, the narrator...
Death du jour
Reichs, Kathy.
Paper Book
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Déjà Dead -- and introduced "[a] brilliant heroine" (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec's director of forensic...
Never cry wolf
Mowat, Farley
Paper Book
EYE TO EYE WITH DEATH:  THE WOLF PROJECT Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling...
North of normal : a memoir of my wilderness childhood, my unusual family, and how I survived both
Person, Cea Sunrise.
Paper Book
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness--a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival. In the late...
Riveter : A Novel
Wang, Jack.
Paper Book
A cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.   Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to serve his country in the war against fascism, but Chinese Canadians are barred from joining the...
Still life
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté 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 stone diaries
Shields, Carol
Paper Book
The Stone Diariesis the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability...
We were dreamers : an immigrant superhero origin story
Liu, Simu
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "Like your favourite superhero, within the first few pages, this book made me feel like I could do anything." --Shifter Magazine   "This real-life hero's journey is a knockout." --Publishers...
White fang
London, Jack
Paper Book
White Fang was part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. Struggling for his life in his lonely world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of the North -- kill or be killed. But nothing prepared him for the challenges to come. After being turned into a vicious killer forced to...

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