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Alias Grace
by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A finalist for the Booker Prize, a national best-seller by the author of The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of an enigmatic Victorian woman accused of a double murder and the psychologist who treats her.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
by Stephen Leacock
The beloved citizens of Mariposa, Ontario, as imagined by the renowned Canadian humorist and award-winning author, are given new life through the illustrations of an internationally acclaimed cartoonist in this new, deluxe edition of the 1912 novel.
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Such is my beloved
by Morley Callaghan
One of the great novels of the 1930s, Such Is My Beloved recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives
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The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence
Hagar Shipley is one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant - and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her - Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.
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Bear
by Marian Engel
The winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel's most famous - and most controversial - novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship.
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Obasan
by Joy Kogawa
The narrator learns about the experiences of her grandmother, Obasan, who was among those Japanese Canadians relocated to internment camps at the beginning of World War II
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The stone diaries
by Carol Shields
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life
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Fifth business
by Robertson Davies
A retiring Canadian history professor reveals the true nature of his eerie, mystical influence on those around him
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Away
by Jane Urquhart
A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past.It takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed house at the edge of a Great Lake during the present day.
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In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
Arriving in Toronto in the 1920s from the Canadian wilderness, Patrick Lewis experiences a series of adventures as he makes a living searching for a missing millionaire, tunnels beneath Lake Ontario, and falls in love.
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