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The company we keep (Griot audio)
By Mary Monroe. 2009
This novel follows successful record executive Teri Stewart as she scours L.A. for love. Just when she's ready to give…
up on men altogether, into her life strolls charming DJ Harrison Starr. He's got it going on – obviously - but he's also hiding a dark secret that could destroy their budding romance. 2009.The confusion of stones: two novellas
By Marwan Hassan. 1989
In two novellas, "The confusion of stones" and "Intelligence," Hassan explores the life of two different Arab men struggling to…
reconcile the experiences of their Lebanese homeland with the realities of life in Canada. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c1989.The days of winter: a novel
By Cynthia Freeman. 1978
Family saga and romance set in Europe between the two world wars. Focuses on Rubin, a prominent British Jew, his…
wife, Magma, and his daughter, Jeanette. Some explicit descriptions of sex. c1978.The days when the animals talked: Black American folktales and how they came to be
By William J Faulkner. 1977
The clothesline swing
By Ahmad Danny Ramadan. 2017
A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the…
valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada. Inspired by Arabian Tales of One Thousand and One Nights, he tells a story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is a Hakawati, a storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured for his sexuality, of leaving home, of war, of his fated meeting with his lover. Meanwhile Death himself, in his dark cloak, shares the house with the two men, eavesdropping on their secrets as he awaits their final undoing. 2017.The Dancing sun: a celebration of Canadian children
By Jan Andrews. 1981
The curses of third uncle (An adventure in Canadian history book.)
By Paul Yee. 1986
The Cooperman variations: a Benny Cooperman mystery (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser.)
By Howard Engel. 2001
Benny is unexpectedly visited by Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty, now Head of Entertainment at a TV network.…
A friend was murdered while at her house, and Vanessa fears she was the target. She asks Benny to protect her, so he travels to Toronto, where he poses as her assistant. As he tries to help his client, assist the local cops, and avoid making enemies, he discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business. 2001.Soleil (Roman)
By David Bouchet. 2015
Souleye et sa famille arrivent du Sénégal et s'installent à Montréal. Ils veulent devenir d'ici, ne pas se retourner. Mais…
tout ne se passe pas comme prévu, et P'pa se retrouve dans le sous-sol de leur appartement où il se met à creuser un trou. Ou est-ce un puits ? Son esprit semble en transit entre deux continents. Pour Souleye, les questions fusent et les réponses n'ont pas de formes connues. Simplement, il faut reboucher la folie de P'pa. Souleye, que sa nouvelle amie Charlotte a rebaptisé Soleil, réfléchit beaucoup et connaît le langage des yeux. Il pose un regard subtil et ouvert sur l'être humain. Par le récit de ses espoirs et de ses peurs, il nous transporte à travers l'histoire de l'humanité, une lente histoire de dissolution et de transformation. 2015.The bone collector's son
By Paul Yee. 2004
Fourteen-year old Bing-wing Chan resents his father not only because the man gambles away all their money, but also because…
he now forces Bing to help him in his gruesome job. Ba is the bone collector, digging up the bones of the deceased Chinese so they can be sent to China. Bing encounters some strange incidents after they dig up a skeleton with no skull, but ghosts, magic and a fortune teller help him find his courage. For junior high readers. 2003.The brightest sun
By Adrienne Benson. 2018
Three very different women grapple with motherhood, recalibrate their identities, and confront unforeseen tragedies and triumphs. Leona, a Maasai mother…
with a difficult childhood; Jane, a lonely expat wife; and Simi, a barren Maasai woman; discover the heartbreak of loss, the struggle to find a sense of belonging, and the surprising ways we find our family and home. 2018.The Bollywood bride
By Sonali Dev. 2015
Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favourite ice princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling…
home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar. Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria's exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love--until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom, and it's taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she's been guarding for everyone else's benefit--and to stop acting and start living. 2015.The Chaneysville incident: a novel
By David Bradley. 1981
The cannibal galaxy (The library of modern Jewish literature)
By Cynthia Ozick. 1983
A philosophical novel permeated with Jewish thought and folklore. The French-born Jewish headmaster of a midwestern private school fears that…
neither he nor his teaching has made any difference to the world. The limitations with which he restricts himself blind him to the mark of promise in an apparently dull student eclipsed by her brilliant mother. 1983.The Blue Mountains of China
By Rudy Henry Wiebe. 1970
A wandering chronicle, spanning a hundred years, of the Mennonite diaspora, beginning in the brutality of Stalin's Soviet Union and…
moving outward to find sanctuary of sorts in Canada and Paraguay. 2008, c1970.The boat people
By Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.The brothers Ashkenazi
By Israel Joshua Singer. 1980
Social novel tells of the life of the Jews in Poland from the 1880s through the Russian Revolution to the…
rise of independent Poland. The story describes the influx of German weavers from Silesia and Saxony, the rise of the weaving industry, and its final collapse. Of the two Ashkenzai brothers, Jewish textile merchants, Max is the brilliant student and Jacob the pleasure lover. 1980. Uniform title: Brider Ashkenazi.The book of ifs and buts: stories (Vintage tales)
By Rabindranath Maharaj. 2002
Nine stories that mainly deal with the experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Canada. In "Swami…
Pankaj", a Trinidadian master farmer, who wishes nothing more than to retire to the Himalayas and become a mystic, leads a strange second life as a Brampton taxi driver. "The House in Lengua Village" concerns a schoolteacher who returns home, only to unexpectedly officiate at his father's funeral. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The book of lights
By Chaim Potok. 1981
Portrays the life and inner conflicts of Gershon Loran, a young Jewish rabbi. While serving as a chaplain during the…
Korean War, he must reconcile his deep-rooted beliefs in Judaism with the struggle between light and darkness in a land where Judaism has never existed. 1981.The bluest eye (Picador Bks.)
By Toni Morrison. 1994
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.