A sweeping tale of life in Sault Ste. Marie from the 1930s through the Second World War.Clara Durling and her teenage daughter, Ivy, move to Sault Ste. Marie in 1932, where Clara is starting a job as head nurse at the local residential school. As Clara adjusts to life in the Soo, she discovers the town is a many-layered society.Clara works with Indigenous children who have been ripped from their communities and now live frightening, lonely lives in a crumbl...

A Globe and Mail Bestseller!Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing a brothel called The Last Post.Set against the backdrop of love, union organizers, amorous bachelors, gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes, the lives of these...

Delilah and Stormy Sampson, sisters hailing from a small Georgia town, suddenly become the target of a two-bit gangster when their addict mother disappears. Her boss, Stanley “the Swindler” Barron, believes she stole his memory stick, which contained incriminating evidence of not only his illicit activities but also those of a dangerous crime syndicate from Chicago. He’s convinced the young women know where the missing memory stick is, and his life depends on finding before the mob discove...

Burn Fat, Reverse the Aging Process and Improve Your Health With Autophagy and the Intermittent Fasting Diet!Losing weight, or preventing weight gain are two things the majority of people on the planet have had trouble with.But what if losing weight and improving your physical health doesn’t have to be a time-consuming, tedious process?What if your body already possesses the ability to prolong your life, make you look younger and lo...

Divine Encounters is a collection of inspirational short stories with the full intention of drawing you closer to God, as you discover life and some of its solutions through the characters as their stories unfold before you. Feelings of joy, heartache, amusement, fear, forgiveness and grace are but a few of the emotions captured in the stories.

In the heart of the 18th century, a nation on the brink of collapse ignited a revolution that would forever alter the course of history. "The French Revolution (Unabridged)" by Robert Matteson Johnston transports you to the tumultuous streets of Paris, where the cries for liberty, equality, and fraternity echoed through the cobblestones. Witness the rise and fall of iconic figures like Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte as they navigate the treacherous waters of revoluti...

A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her ...

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction — ShortlistedFor Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past.At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison, sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at ...

‘Compulsively readable novel… well-written scenes worthy of John le Carré… McNeil’s writing is most luminous, both spare and powerful’ The New York Times'Completely absorbing, eminently readable... You won't read many better novels this year.' --The Daily Mail'This exotic novel handles large themes with assurance, tact and knowledge.' --Giles Foden, author of The Last King of ScotlandWhen ...

2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2015 — Short-listedAs she comes into adulthood, Grace confronts the mystery of her own identity and the story of her birth mother in this sprawling, large-hearted novel.Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never feels like she really belongs. Although her large, extended family is black, she is a redibo. Her skin is copper-coloured, her hair is red, and her eyes are grey. A neighb...

2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading — NominatedA sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees.Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in the house, once a hippie commune, where her daughter was kidnapped twenty-seven years ago. Rose grew up isolated with her mother in the backwoods north of Montreal. Now in the city, she questions the silence and decepti...

A wicked Richleresque satire about a charismatic advertising executive and the three beautiful women who turn his life upside down.Julius Roebuck is the creative director of a successful ad agency, husband to the headstrong Anne, and father to three lively children. He is also the attentive lover of a poet named Lily.When his wife’s beautiful friend Yasmin announces her plan to get pregnant and describes him as the perfect sperm donor, Julius is startled at...