Strangers in the house a prairie story of bigotry and belonging —Savage, Candace, 1949- author.

When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when Fr...

The tattooist of Auschwitz a novel —Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), author.

"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the...

The woman in the white kimono —Johns, Ana, author.

A debut novel inspired by the author's true family story, 'The Woman in the White Kimono' is a captivating historical novel that tells the braided stories of a young woman in 1950s Japan, forced to choose between her hea...

From the ashes my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way —Thistle, Jesse, author.

Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal gr...

The night Olivia fell a novel —McDonald, Christina, author.

In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must r...

A gentleman in Moscow —Towles, Amor, author.

The Expatriates —Lee, Janice Y. K, author.

Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you'll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down." --Kevin Kwan From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Piano Teacher, a bea...

Where the crawdads sing —Owens, Delia, author.

"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two m...

The storied life of A.J. Fikry a novel —Zevin, Gabrielle, author.

A.J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. ...

Warlight —Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- author.

"From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected ch...

Finding my way a memoir —Simmie, Lois, 1932- author.

An autobiography from a Saskatchewan writer whose writing transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Washington Black a novel —Edugyan, Esi, author.

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of ...

The home for unwanted girls —Goodman, Joanna, 1969- author.

"In 1950s Quebec, the French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility-much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the p...

Unsheltered a novel —Kingsolver, Barbara, author.

Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a s...

The library of lost and found —Patrick, Phaedra, author.

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people, though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it fe...

The travelling cat chronicles —Arikawa, Hiro, 1972- author.

The night tiger —Choo, Yangsze, author.

In 1930s colonial Malaysia, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed fin...

The choice embrace the possible —Eger, Edith Eva, author.

"At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amu...

The immortalists —Benjamin, Chloe, author.

The witches of New York a novel —McKay, Ami, 1968- author.

The bestselling author of "The Birth House" and "The Virgin Cure" is back, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means po...