FROM SWEETGRASS BRIDGE

a novel by Anthony Bidulka

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A nation holds its breath.

On a perfect prairie summer evening, Saskatchewan Roughrider Dustin Thomson goes missing. As the Green & White’s first primary quarterback born in the province and first Indigenous quarterback, Thomson is beloved and celebrated. Mistrusting the police investigation, the family hires Merry Bell P.I. to find the football star. From the dark waters below Sweetgrass Bridge to the lands of Little Turtle Lake First Nation, Merry seeks answers while dealing with her continuing transition, swelling loneliness, a floundering career, well-meaning crossdressing assistant and having to decide whether the people in her life are friend or foe.

In 1999 Anthony Bidulka left his career as a corporate auditor to pursue writing and never looked back. His books have been nominated for several awards and Bidulka was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. When he isn’t writing or busy volunteering on boards, Bidulka loves to travel the world, collect art, walk his dogs, obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it’s a thing) and throw a good party. His motto: life is short, so make it wide! Please visit his website at www.anthonybidulka.com for further information about Anthony and his books. Anthony lives just outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

SECRETS IN THE WATER

a novel by Alice Fitzpatrick

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Emma Galway’s suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years.

Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can’t avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt’s killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off. When the two women become the subject of threatening notes and violent incidents, it’s clear that one of their fellow islanders is warning them off. As they begin to look into Emma’s connection to the Sutherlands, a prominent Meredith Island family, another islander dies under suspicious circumstances, forcing Kate and Siobhan to confront the likelihood that Emma’s killer is still on the island.

Alice Fitzpatrick has contributed short stories to literary magazines and anthologies and has recently retired from teaching in order to devote herself to writing full-time. She is a fearless champion of singing, cats, all things Welsh, and the Oxford comma. Her summers spent with her Welsh family in Pembrokeshire inspired the creation of Meredith Island. The traditional mystery appeals to her keen interest in psychology as she is intrigued by what makes seemingly ordinary people commit murder. Alice lives in Toronto but dreams of a cottage on the Welsh coast. To learn more about Alice and her writing, please visit her website at www.alicefitzpatrick.com.

SUNSET LAKE RESORT

a novel by Joanne Jackson

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When Ruby’s father passes away, but fails to leave her the millions some expected, Steve, her husband of 35 years, moves out. Alone, but in control of her own affairs for the first time in her life, Ruby is torn between panic and relief. When she investigates the remote beach cabin her father had left her instead of his estate, she discovers a dilapidated beach resort in a remote location, seemingly untouched since its former owner, Cecelia Johansen, died under mysterious circumstances. Despite the condition of the property and rumours it is haunted, Ruby decides to move to Sunset Lake Resort, determined to find out why her father bought it, and why he left it to her.

Joanne Jackson is an award winning author of three novels. Her most recent, 'A Snake in the Raspberry Patch,' was the winner of Best Crime Novel set in Canada for 2023, and short listed for Saskatchewan Book Awards 2023. Her first novel, 'The Wheaton' was released in 2019, and her forthcoming novel, 'Sunset Lake Resort', is set to be released spring of 2024. Joanne lives in Saskatoon with her husband, Tom, and an old border collie named Mick. If you keep your eyes peeled you will see Joanne and her dog walking come rain, shine, snow, or whatever weather Saskatchewan throws at them. Website: https://www.joannejackson.ca.

HEKATE’S DAUGHTER

a novel by Mirjam Dikken

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Knowing what people think feels more like a curse than a blessing to Kathy van der Laan. After all, how do you deal with discovering your employer is a pervert, your father's replaying scenes from the car accident that killed your mother, and suspecting the guy ahead of you in the department store to be the reason for the latest amber alert? Unable to explain the source of her knowledge, Kathy reduces her interactions, sends anonymous tips to police and tries not to remind her father about a loss they both can’t get past. Then she receives an offer from the Syndicate, a shadowy organization which purports to shape policy within the EU, and where she discovers her mother worked till her death. To find out more about her mother, can she risk joining a group that seems to know too much about her dangerous gift?

Mirjam Dikken was born and raised in the Netherlands. She has worked around the world through her jobs as a chemical engineer, recruiter, and HR manager, and lived in New Delhi, India, and Edmonton, Canada. As they love living below sea level, she and her family settled in the Hoeksche Waard again, an inland island in the Netherlands. She now does her wandering around in the darker places of her imagination to write thrillers and other fiction. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and on the beer cans of her favourite coffee stout.

Urbane

a novel by Anna Marie Sewell

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“I should have punched her in the face.”

With these words, Hazel’s back.  Having survived a stint as a werewolf’s accomplice on a mission of vengeance and redemption, Amiskwaciy’s notoriously unknown detective and self-professed asshole Hazel LeSage returns. 

The aftermath of violence has left Hazel with questions, wounds and unexpected friends including Shanaya Bhattacharya, a most unusual lawyer whose thirst for wrongs to right leads her and Hazel into the claws of a conspiracy.  

Hazel and Shanaya set out to find Hazel's ex-husband and renegotiate the terms of their divorce, in which Hazel unjustly lost her land. They stumble into a deadly conspiracy entangling the rural lands surrounding their home city of Amiskwaciy. Taking it on will force Hazel to come to terms with her past; surviving will mean accepting some most unexpected allies.

Meanwhile in Amiskwaciy, Hazel's nephew Devin, shaken to the core by the violent death of his childhood friend, has gone to ground in an unlikely lair.  To emerge whole, he must get to grips with the primal wildness of his soul and begin to become a man of worth on his own terms. 

Welcome back to Amiskwaciy, where the mythic has its feet up on your coffee table, and what you see might not be all you get. 

Urbane is the sequel to Humane, Anna Marie Sewell’s best-selling 2020 first novel from Stonehouse Publishing.

Anna Marie Sewell, award-winning multi-genre writer/performer, specializes in collaborative multidisciplinary work. She was MacEwan University's 2019/20 Writer in Residence, Edmonton's 4th Poet Laureate, author of poetry collections Fifth World Drum (Frontenac House, 2009), and 2018's For the Changing Moon: Poems & Songs (Thistledown). Urbane is Anna Marie’s second novel, a much anticipated sequel to Humane (Stonehouse, 2020).

Livingsky

a novel by Anthony Bidulka

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Merry Bell needed to get out of Vancouver. Fast. Returning to her home town of Livingsky, Saskatchewan was a desperate step. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter, all while trying to start her own PI business proves to be more of a challenge than she imagined. With a first case that quickly turns more dangerous than it first appeared, Merry must deal with a dodgy client, the murder of the surgeon who performed her gender affirming surgery, and more than one mysterious stranger.  

As Merry struggles to start over in her hometown, she not only has to unwind a mystery which imperils Livingsky's most powerful people, but must face a past she'd rather leave behind.

In 1999 Anthony Bidulka left his career as a corporate auditor to pursue writing and never looked back. His books have been nominated for several awards and Bidulka was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. When he isn’t writing or busy volunteering on boards, Bidulka loves to travel the world, collect art, walk his dogs, obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it’s a thing) and throw a good party. His motto: life is short, so make it wide! Please visit his website at www.anthonybidulka.com for further information about Anthony and his books. Anthony lives just outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Echo Lane

a novel by Sandra Kelly

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Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that's all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane's maternal shortcomings are just a bad memory. It would be a perfect world if Patsy wasn't eternally haunted by the memory of what really happened on the day her sister Kathleen went missing–and by the foolish lie she told that day. She's lived with it for forty-two years.

Since that terrible time, Patsy has distanced herself from everyone and everything in her past. She is now a well-respected teacher in Calgary, the proud owner of a vintage home, and the occasional companion of a lovely man who seems content to keep their relationship casual. It's a stable life–until a mysterious woman shows up at her door claiming to be Nora Stone, a childhood friend of Kathleen's. Nora further claims to have information about Kathleen's fate, facts she acquired in a manner that defies belief. As Patsy tries to figure out whether Nora is real, real but crazy, or something even more sinister, the rest of her carefully compartmentalized life begins to come apart, one well built piece at a time.

Before turning her pen to fiction, Sandra Kelly had a long and distinguished career as a writer of non-fiction, primarily for newspapers and magazines. As the senior writer on staff at Mount Royal College (now Mount Royal University) for ten years, she wrote everything from feature articles for the in-house publications to video scripts, speeches and fund-raising campaign literature. Concurrently she taught an acclaimed course called Writing for Publication, in the college's Professional Writing Program, and a variety of continuing education courses for fledgling writers. In the early 2000s, she wrote two romantic comedies for Harlequin before deciding that romance fiction wasn't going to be her specialty. Echo Lane is Sandra’s first literary novel, and her first novel for Stonehouse Publishing. Sandra says she “lives to write” but manages to squeeze in a little biking, hiking and kayaking with her husband, Bob, in beautiful Invermere, British Columbia.

Inescapable: A Ghost Story

a novel by D.K. Stone

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Trying to come to terms with the passing of her husband, an acclaimed and controversial Canadian artist, Aimee Westerberg is spiralling into depression instead. Her identity as George Westerberg’s younger second wife has thrown her into a fight with his family over the estate, Troubled and grieving, Aimee escapes into her work as an art-restorer at Calgary’s Glenbow museum, only to find herself pursued by Bear Cardinal, a journalist writing an exposé on the infamous artist’s entangled life. But dealing with Bear is far from her only worry… As Aimee tries to piece together the true character of her late husband, her fragmented memories come into contact with what appears to be a phantom version of George. Is this obsessive ghost truly her husband, determined to maintain his hold on her, or some darker suggestion of Aimee’s own mind? Unable to mourn while tormented by a poltergeist, Aimee must figure out how to un-tether herself from her troubled past, and escape forces from both this world and beyond.

D.K. Stone is an author, artist, and educator who discovered a passion for writing fiction while in the throes of her Masters thesis. A self-declared bibliophile, D.K. now writes novels for both teens: Switchback (Macmillan, 2019), Internet Famous (Macmillan, 2017) and All the Feels (Macmillan, 2016); and adults: Edge Of Wild (Stonehouse, 2016), The Dark Divide (Stonehouse, 2018) and Fall of Night (Stonehouse, 2020).

When not writing, D.K. can be found hiking in the Rockies, planning grand adventures, and spending far too much time online. She lives with her family and a houseful of imaginary characters in a windy corner of Alberta, Canada.

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch

a novel by Joanne Jackson

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It is the summer of 1971 and Liz takes care of her four sisters while waiting to meet the sixth Murphy child: a boy. And yet, something is not right. Adults tensely whisper in small groups, heads shaking. Her younger sister, Rose seems more annoying, always flashing her camera and jotting notes in her notepad. The truth is worse than anyone could imagine: an entire family slaughtered in their home nearby, even the children. The small rural community reels in the aftermath. No one seems to know who did it or why. For Liz, these events complicate her already tiring life. Keeping Rose in line already feels like a full time job, and if Rose gets it in her head that she can solve a murder… The killer must be someone just passing through, a random horror. It almost begs the question: where do murderers live?

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch is Joanne Jackson’s second novel. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her husband and a border collie named Mick. If you keep your eyes peeled you will see the three of them walking every morning come rain, or shine, snow, or whatever weather Saskatchewan might throw at them.

GOING TO BEAUTIFUL

a novel by Anthony Bidulka

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International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world—a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot—a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake’s tragedy was truly an accident after all. As the sun sets in the Land of Living Skies, Hardy and his glamorous, seventy-eight-year-old transgender neighbour find themselves ensnared in multiple murders separated by decades. In Bidulka’s “love letter to life on the prairies” he delivers a story of grief and loss that manages to burst with joy, tenderness and hope. Redolent of his earlier works, Going to Beautiful brings us unexpected, under-represented characters in settings that immediately feel familiar and beloved. Beautiful—a place where what you need may not be what you were looking for.

In 1999 Anthony Bidulka left his career as a corporate auditor to pursue writing and never looked back. His books have been nominated for several awards and Bidulka was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. When he isn’t writing or busy volunteering on boards, Bidulka loves to travel the world, collect art, walk his dogs, obsess over decorating Christmas trees (it’s a thing) and throw a good party. His motto: life is short, so make it wide! Please visit his website at www.anthonybidulka.com for further information about Anthony and his books. Anthony lives just outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

CASHMERE COMES FROM GOATS

a novel by S. Portico Bowman

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Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to see puffins in Newfoundland, a fateful google search puts everything on hold. When she *accidentally* finds Bruno’s grown son–or a younger double–living in France with a woman Bruno knew briefly many many years ago, Robin has a choice: stay in Canada and monitor her distant father’s suspected dementia, or accept Bruno’s demand that she go with him to France, and help him face fatherhood a few decades too late.

The structured chaos of a kaleidoscope is a soothing beauty and S. Portico Bowman’s favourite word. She writes to puzzle and play. Infinite structures of language craft the images for characters who have unpredictable and transformative lives. For the past twenty years Portico’s home was in a collage of places. She worked in Kansas as an art professor, art writer, and gallery director. Her love life is in California. Her father, family, writing community, and many friends are in Canada. She has completed her work in Kansas and now lives in San Diego full time with Tom and their cat Florence. Portico’s favourite art supply is glitter.

LETTERS TO SINGAPORE

a novel by Kelly Kaur

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Growing up in Singapore, Simran always knew what was expected of her: to learn how to be a good mother and wife. The only problem? Simran has no interest in any of this. After a close escape (almost at the altar!), Simran earns a reprieve to attend the University of Calgary in Canada. Letters exchanged back home to her mother, sister and friends reveal that no matter which path women take, traditional or independent, life is fraught with conflict, hilarity and peril. Simran’s experience as a brave and hopeful young woman and a new Canadian will touch your heart; her thoughtful determination to chart her own course will inspire you.

Kelly grew up in Singapore, came to Calgary to get her degrees at the University of Calgary, and stayed longer than she thought she would. Universities appear to be her playground; as a university educator today, she must have taught over 10,000 students and graded over 60,000 essays. To take a break from marking, she decided to write her own novel. Kelly lives in Calgary, Alberta.

FALL OF NIGHT

a novel by D.K. Stone
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Rich Evans is desperate to say goodbye to his past in New York and embrace a future in Waterton with fiancee Louise Newman, a small-town mechanic with an uncanny gift of foresight. But even Lou's warnings are not enough to avoid the new troubles threatening the isolated border town. Rich returns to Waterton to discover the body of his estranged ex-girlfriend has been found in a remote mountain lake.

Constable Sadie Black Plume uncovers grisly details linking Gabrielle's murder to a web of organized crime with connections to all layers of Waterton's close-knit community. With Rich as the main suspect, Rich and Lou are forced to prove his innocence in a small town where the term 'outsider' can be applied to anyone who wasn't born there.

D.K. Stone/Danika Stone is an author, artist, and educator who discovered a passion for writing fiction while in the throes of her Masters thesis. A self-declared bibliophile, Stone now writes novels for both teens: Switchback (Macmillan, 2019), Internet Famous (Macmillan, 2017) and All the Feels (Macmillan, 2016); and adults The Dark Divide (Stonehouse, 2018) and Edge Of Wild (Stonehouse, 2016).

When not writing, Danika can be found hiking in the Rockies, planning grand adventures, and spending far too much time online. She lives with her husband, three sons, and a houseful of imaginary characters in a windy corner of Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Ms. Stone is represented by Moe Ferrara of BookEnds Literary Agency

ALL THE NIGHT GONE

a novel by Sabrina Uswak

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A tragic accident, and two brothers are left to cope. Ben reads, obsesses. Charlie struggles between silence and anger. Unable to talk about what happened, a tension begins to build, pushing them apart.

Then Dill arrives. Carrying only a baseball bat and small duffel bag with a broken zipper, she glides into their lives imperceptibly, raising more questions than answers.

They start to become a kind of family. Almost.

When she suddenly disappears, what else can Ben and Charlie do but get into their dusty truck and go search for her?

Sabrina Uswak holds an MSc with distinction in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh and MA with distinction in digital publishing from Oxford Brookes University. She was prose editor for FreeFall and filling Station magazines before joining Loft on EIGHTH press. Her recent flash fiction can be found through the Calgary Central Library’s short story dispenser. Currently, she lives and works in Calgary, where she was born and raised.

HUMANE

a novel by Anna Marie Sewell

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Who steals a dog from a shelter after receiving a dream message from their grandmother? Hazel Lesage never expected it to be her. Then again, she didn’t plan on becoming an unlicensed PI, helping the 'throwaway people.' However much has changed in Amiskwaciy, the problem of poor Indigenous women and girls being expendable hasn't. Nobody else is going to help the Augusts find out who killed their daughter Nell; so Hazel takes the case. And then she takes the dog. 

What follows will force Hazel and her family to confront the question of what it means to be Human, and what it matters to be Humane.

Anna Marie Sewell Anna Marie Sewell is an award-winning multi-genre writer/performer, whose career has centred around collaborative multidisciplinary work, including Ancestors & Elders, Reconciling Edmonton (which featured the first ever Round Dance at Edmonton's City Hall), Braidings, Honour Songs and Heart of the Flower. As Edmonton's 4th Poet Laureate, Anna Marie created and curated The PoemCatcher public art installation. She founded and ran Big Sky Theatre, a three year training and performance project producing original Aboriginal (it was the 90s) theatre with urban youth. She is also a founding member of the Stroll of Poets, which has provided an entrée into Edmonton's public poetry community since 1991.

Anna Marie authored two critically-acclaimed (and much-shortlisted) poetry collections, Fifth World Drum (Frontenac House, 2009), and 2018's For the Changing Moon: Poems & Songs (Thistledown Press). Her essays and articles appear in Eighteen Bridges, Alberta Views, New Trail, Write Magazine, Legacy and various scholarly publications. She's even had a recipe published in a cookbook.

CENSORETTES

a novel by Elizabeth Bales Frank

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For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight—then the fight is brought to her.

Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island to inspect mail between North America and European nations at war. Determined to contribute in a more substantial way, Lucy uses her Cambridge education and love of Shakespeare to detect a Nazi spy ring operating out of Brooklyn. Just as she is promoted to a dangerous job overseas, her good friend is murdered. Should she embrace her new assignment, or seek justice for her friend?

Elizabeth Bales Frank is the author of the novel Cooder Cutlas, published by Harper & Row. Her essays have appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Sun, Barrelhouse, Post Road, Epiphany, The Writing Disorder and other literary publications. She was awarded a residency at Ragdale, where part of this novel was written. She earned a BFA in film from New York University, and an MLIS from the Pratt Institute. She lives in New York City.

ROUGH

a novel by Robin Van Eck

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It is 2013 and Calgary’s Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend–an accident? 

Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid up in the hospital. Outside, as the city reels from an unthinkable disaster, Shermeto finds himself away from the swelling river and face-to-face with a part of the past he is trying to hide from: his daughter Kendra.

Robin Van Eck loves words. She writes mostly contemporary fiction but has also begun to re-explore her love of horror, the weird and fantastic. A review of one of her stories compared her to the likes of Edgar Allan Poe. She is both locally and internationally published with stories and creative nonfiction appearing in various magazines and anthologies. Her work has been short-listed for contests and she was the finalist for the AMPA Award for Fiction in 2010. In her day job she is the Executive Director for the Alexandra Writers Centre Society in Calgary where she also teaches creative writing and mentors other writers. ‘Rough’ is her first novel.

THE WORK

a novel by Maria Meindl

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When aspiring stage-manager Rebecca Weir falls for the married director of SenseInSound theatre company, she initiates a love triangle and working collaboration which go on for two decades. Set in Toronto at the start of the 1980s, the novel explores the genesis of what its disciples call ‘The Work’. The director, Marlin, has the status of a Guru in SenseInSound, but is he pushing people’s limits or abusing his power? Is the ‘The Work’ a cutting-edge artistic practice, a road to personal healing, or a cult? 

Maria Meindl is the author of Outside the Box: the Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History. Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications including The New Quarterly, The Temz Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Descant and Musicworks, as well as in the anthologies, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die and The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. She has made two radio series, Parent Care, and Remembering Polio for CBC Ideas. In 2005, Maria founded the Draft Reading series, which offers a forum for unpublished work by emerging and established writers. She teaches movement in Toronto.

COLLISION COURSE

a novel by Doug Morrison

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Back in Canada after a harrowing vacation gone wrong, Michael Barrett tries to put all thought of Ukraine and his mysterious captor turned friend, Dmitri, from his mind. This would be a little easier to do if a million dollars had not just popped into his bank account. A mistake, a message? Would he ever put this adventure behind him, and did a part of him miss the only interesting, yet terrifying, thing that had ever happened to him?

Doug Morrison has made many trips to Ukraine, doing volunteer work with both young people and adults.  His experiences and impressions of his adopted country were the basis of his first book, Course Correction.  His love of the tropics and all places warm, along with his experience as a flight instructor and charter pilot, served to inspire this sequel, which is his second novel.  When not reading, writing, or dreaming of flying, he finds time for the odd cruise in his vintage muscle car.  He currently lives and works in Red Deer, Alberta, but dreams of the day he can move to Barbados.

THE WHEATON

a novel by Joanne Jackson

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A year after the early death of his wife, John Davies comes hesitantly out of retirement to take a job at The Wheaton, a senior’s residence. Having resisted ‘getting involved’ for his entire life, John is immediately out of his comfort zone. The Wheaton is a boundary-free environment, and he is immersed in the kinds of sticky matters he usually does his best to avoid. Surrounded by mortality and the ghosts of regret haunting many of the residents, John begins to do the unthinkable: relate to his fellow creatures and reconsider his past. After a life of being a selfish husband and a distracted absentee father, is it too late to try to make amends?

‘The Wheaton’ is Joanne Jackson’s debut novel. She lives in Saskatoon with her husband and a border collie named Mick. She has two married children and two wonderful grand-daughters. Joanne loves reading, writing, and walking her dog for at least two hours every day, even when it’s thirty below in the prairies.

MARY BARTON

a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell

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"A book that most profoundly affected & impressed me–" Charles Dickens

Set in Manchester England in the mid-nineteenth century, Mary Barton was revolutionary in the way it tackled the relationship between poor mill workers and the wealthier manufacturers. This first book by Elizabeth Gaskell delves into the desperate lives of the working poor in Northern England, much in the way Dickens shone light on London’s lowest classes. In Gaskell’s eyes, prostitutes are selfless, murderers are penitent, and the poor are heroes.

Elizabeth Gaskell, 1810-1865, produced no less than 46 written works during her lifetime, including novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Some of her more famous works are North and South and Cranford.

JESUS ON THE DASHBOARD

a novel by Lisa Murphy-Lamb

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“This novel will make readers hungry for more.” Aritha van Herk

Teenage years can be complicated, even when you haven’t been abandoned by your mother at age ten. It is the 1980s and teenage Gemma lives with her well-meaning father, Nathaniel, and tries to come to terms with growing up motherless. Then comes the strange, almost unthinkable news: Angie is back, attending church in a nearby town, and she has adopted a Korean infant.  Gemma finds herself facing the prospect of maybe, just maybe, seeing a mother she is pretty sure she hates.

Lisa Murphy-Lamb is a writer, educator, and the Director of Loft 112, a creative space for writers inCalgary’s East Village.

FEW AND FAR

a novel by Allison Kydd

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“Beautifully researched, –touching and romantic.” Sue Sorensen, author “A Large Harmonium”

Jilted by her near-beau in England, Florence Southam travels to the exotic new world of the Saskatchewan Prairies to attend the wedding of her cousin and to recover from her recent disappointment. Despite Victorian-esque outward appearances, Florence discovers that in the Cannington Manor settlement, social niceties quickly give way to the practicalities of survival and her own unquestioned beliefs are suddenly thrown into doubt by new possibilities of selfhood and the potential of finding love outside the conventional social norms of her upbringing.

After spending most of her adult life in cities, Allison Kydd returned to country living in in Indian Head, Saskatchewan in 2008. Her first book, ‘Emily via the Greyhound Bus’, was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award.

ENCOUNTERING RIEL

a novel by David D. Orr

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HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2017

“Writing with intelligence and compassion…Orr brings to life a chapter in our history whose consequences still haunt Canada’s relationship with the Métis and other first nations’ people.” Daphne Bramham, Columnist, Vancouver Sun

Willie Lorimer is a young poetry student who forgot to resign his commission in the Canadian militia. When he is called up to join the fight against the Métis rebel leader, Louis Riel, Willie is scared, but bolstered by his own naïveté. The journey to the heart of the rebellion is long and full of anguish. When the militia reach the West, things go tragically wrong, and their once-heroic cause is marred by the cynical realities of politics, and the harsh realities of war.

David D. Orr was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1946. He worked in that province as a lawyer and Provincial Court judge. He now lives in Sherwood Park, (Edmonton) Alberta.

SOMETHING UNREMEMBERED

a novel by Della Dennis

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“...exotic and familiar at once–a fine bottle of wine we don’t want it to end.” Todd Babiak, Author

One would hardly think a prairie town would be the place a 15th century woman would choose to reveal her story, but when Janine discovers the story of Madeleine of Beauvais in her beloved art history books, an enigmatic presence begins to form. Mystified by references to Madeleine which appear then disappear, Janine becomes preoccupied with uncovering Madeleine's mysterious fate.

A music historian, Della Dennis grew up in Africa in the shadow of a protestant ethic where fiction ranked lowly. Returning to Edmonton, her birthplace, she fell from grace and began to write.

EVELINA

a novel by Frances Burney

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"Our first (foremost) woman novelist [Frances Burney]." Jane Austen

The first novel by the prolific 18th century writer, Evelina is a lighthearted epistolary novel chronicling a young lady's rise in Regency England society. Evelina, having been raised in the country and sheltered from the evils of London, is suddenly thrust into the height of upper class society and introduced to her ridiculous and self-important grandmother. What follows is an entertaining tale of love, friendship, and growing up, told with the wit and charm that inspired, and was admired by, Jane Austen.

Frances Burney became a literary sensation soon after she released her first book, Evelina, in 1778. Her novels were known and admired by Jane Austen, Napoleon and Edmund Burke. She was born in Norfolk, England, and lived from 1752-1840.

COURSE CORRECTION

a novel by Doug Morrison

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 “..edge-of-your-seat race through the back roads and small villages–[of Ukraine]”— Janice MacDonald, author

After his plane to Greece is hijacked, Canadian Michael Barrett finds himself in Ukraine on the run from the Mafia, in the company of his mysterious Ukrainian seat-mate, Dmitri. As Michael and Dmitri try to stay ahead of the pursuing Mafia, Michael struggles to figure out who to trust. In a country where bribery is rampant, and authorities are suspect, his only resource is the morose Dmitri, who is hiding his share of secrets. As the two fugitives race through the Ukrainian countryside in a desperate attempt to reach the border, catastrophe strikes, testing the tentative bond between them, and jeopardizing their hope of survival.

Doug Morrison has made many trips to Ukraine, doing volunteer work. His love of the tropics and his experience as a flight instructor and charter pilot inspired this sequel. Doug currently lives and works in Lacombe, Alberta, but dreams of the day he can move to Barbados.

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“A swashbuckling love story of innocents abroad written in prose so period perfect you'll swear it's a rediscovered classic.” Elizabeth Bales Frank, Author
It is the dawn of the French revolution and masses of hungry peasants burn wealthy chateaus throughout France.  After the death of his estranged family, eighteen year-old nobleman Marcel de la Croix is forced to raise the royalist banner, despite his own revolutionary leanings. Marcel escapes to England, hoping to put the past behind him.  In England he encounters several French emigres: the large, brutish former soldier, M. Tolouse, the haughty Mlle. de Courteline, and the sheltered Mlle. Vallon.  As these traveling exiles are forced together, a young servant begins to intrigue them with a mysterious tale. Does it hold the key to Marcel’s fate?

N. R. Cruse is a harmless sort of person, obsessed with history and old books. She lives in Edmonton, where she tries to reconcile herself to the realities of modern life.

KALYNA

a novel by Pam Clark
Web: pamkclark.weebly.com
Twitter: @pam_k_clark

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WINNER OF THE 2016 EXPORTING ALBERTA AWARD FOR FICTION.

“...a plot that grabs and holds the reader’s attention.”— Bernice Morgan, author, ‘Random Passage’

Swept up in a whirlwind courtship, Katja and Wasyl begin life anew in a Ukrainian settlement of Western Canada. The dusty Canadian prairies promise hope and independence, but when war breaks out between the old world and the new, their newfound stability is shattered. Rumours of the internment of Ukrainian-Canadians haunt the new settlers. Would the country they love betray them like this? After Wasyl is taken into custody, the closely-knit family hopes to be reunited before all hope is lost.

Pam Clark grew up in Edmonton, Alberta close to Edna-Star. Kalyna is her first novel and is a tribute to her Ukrainian-Canadian heritage. She now lives in Calgary with her family.

EDGE OF WILD

a novel by D.K. Stone
Web: www.danikastone.com
Facebook: Danika Stone
Twitter: @danika_stone

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“[Stone] takes a complicated stew of murder, mystery, and mayhem and boils it down to its essence with lyrical writing and perfectly timed revelations.” Monti Shalosky

Transplanted from New York City to the tiny mountain town of Waterton, Alberta, with the task of saving a floundering new hotel, Rich Evans is desperate to return to civilization as soon as he can. The locals seem unusually hostile, and was that a cougar on his door-step last night? As Rich begins to wonder whether his predecessor disappeared of his own accord, he finds himself drawn to Louise Newman, the garage mechanic who is fixing his suddenly unreliable BMW.  A series of gruesome unsolved murders begin to tear the town apart, and Rich can’t help but wonder: will he be the next victim?

A self-declared bibliophile, D. K. Stone discovered a passion for writing fiction while in the throes of her master's thesis. She writes novels for both adults and teens (All the Feels, Internet Famous, and Icarus). She lives in a windy corner ofLethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

MARY GREEN

a novel by Melanie Kerr
Web: www.melaniekerr.com
Facebook: Mary Green

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“–Mary Green, delightfully combines Anne Shirley's naivety with Emma Woodhouse's strength of mind in a debut historical novel filled with the magic and romance of Cinderella.” Publishers Weekly

Obscure orphan and ward of the wealthy Hargreaves family, Mary Green has always accepted her inferior position with humility and gratitude. When her confidence is betrayed by the unfeeling youngest daughter of the family and her very deprivation becomes an object of the mockery and scorn, she determines to cast them off and make her own way in the world. Will she grow strong and happy in her independence, or will her character be lost amidst her newfound ambition? Unable to trust the whims of her own heart, Mary is forced to confront the question that has forever plagued her: Who is she and where does she come from?

Melanie Kerr lives in Edmonton where she raises her children, organizes costume events, blogs on things old and English, endeavours to take over the world, and occasionally practices law.