Books tagged: Urban Life
A Desolate Splendor
By John Jantunen
A chilling portrait of a family fighting to preserve their humanity in a cruel and merciless world
The collapse of civilization has left the survivors scattered amongst a few settlements along the wilderness fringe of a land ravaged by war. Preyed upon by roving bands of sadistic ... Read more
Accordéon
By Kaie Kellough
Finalist for the 2017 Amazon. ca First Novel Award
Accordéon is an experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, an ode to Montréal--a city where everything happens at once and all realities exist simultaneously. Against a satirical Ministry of Culture ... Read more
All We Want is Everything
By Andrew F. Sullivan
All We Want is Everything, Andrew F. Sullivan's exceptional debut collection of short stories, finds the misused and forgotten, the places in between, the borderlands on the edge of town where dead fields alternate with empty warehouses--places where men and women clutch tightly ... Read more
Always Brave, Sometimes Kind
By Katie Bickell
Winner of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ George Bugnet Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Indie Author Project Award for Alberta
Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for Fiction
A Casual Optimist Book Cover of Note
An exciting debut novel told in connected short stories ... Read more
And the Walls Came Down
By Denise Da Costa
Back in the low-income neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one’s voice.
Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as ... Read more
Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers
By Jen Desmarais & Éric Desmarais
When Kennedy Fairfield, a recent graduate (class of 2002) trying to find her purpose in life, or at least a job in her field, saves Jason Johnson, the leader of a secret Community of supernatural people called Aetherborn, from an attempted assassination, they embark on a whirlwind ... Read more
Blind Spot
By Laurence Miall
“Some daysI wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuineto worry about. ”
When his parents’ car is hit by a train,Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house ... Read more
Blind Spot
By Laurence Miall
"Some days I wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuine to worry about. "
When his parents' car is hit by a train, Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral, wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house ... Read more