The Madonna List

Maxwell L. Foran

Literature & Fiction

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The Reckoning Of Boston Jim

Claire

MULLIGAN

In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier, her four-year-old son Daniel disappeared. Armed with a few clues from war-time England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London and the English countryside and back. It is a story about loss and grief, about secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love. The Cuckoo’s Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of loss and longing and one woman’s search for her family history.

The Cuckoo's Child

Thompson, Margaret

Literary

Ted tells stories. High on a cloud above Mount Washington, he peers over its edge at the earth down below, listening to the memories of the mortal folk he watches. Lola listens to his stories. Once, long ago, she was a famous Hollywood bombshell, beloved by millions. Now, as a god, she has ascended to the heavens, living in eternal light. Ted’s storytelling captures her heart, just as she captured those of her fans. As Ted talks to her, Lola wants to know more. Down on earth, three families roll through generations of joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa Magnussen, activist conservationists, lovers, parents, fighters. Handy’ Johnnie Cochan, self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And the disaster-recovery specialist, Carney, who can quench an oil-platform fire, but finds love hard to hold onto. Through their mingled attractions and battles, their futures become bound together as Cochan’s vision for a new utopia, a massive Vermont construction project, threatens to rupture everything. Ted watches and tells; Lola listens and dreams . . . as something within her is changing. Whatever Lola Wants is a saga of gods and insects, people and

Whatever Lola Wants

SZANTO, George

Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) "Outstanding debut." Publisher's Weekly Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager. When he’s seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from his life. In a few short days, everything changes. His father moves him across town, enrolls him in a different school, and takes him away from little Saskia, the only friend he’s ever had. Ten years later, Freddy is struggling to get through his last year of high school. He painstakingly avoids interactions with other students, who don’t understand his hyper-literal perspective. But then Saskia appears, and she’s different from the laughing little girl he remembers. She no longer smiles, and she doesn’t speak. As they reconnect, Freddy begins to remember what really happened ten years ago. And everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Both humorous and heartbreaking, Do You Think This Is Strange? is a coming-of-age tale you won’t soon forget.

Do You Think This Is Strange?: A Novel

Drake, Aaron Cully

The release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) findings and recommendations in the spring of 2015 was an immensely important day for the people of Canada. It marked the hopeful beginning of change—a change of thinking, a change of opinion, a change in understanding. But how do we begin? Chief Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the TRC, says that the most common statement the commission heard from the public was: “I didn’t know any of this, and I acknowledge that things are not where they should be, and that we can do better. But what can we do? What should we do?” This collection of fifteen true stories of real reconciliation by both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Canadians is in response to that question. Written by journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, a city planner, and a lawyer, each of these writers expound on their 'light bulb moments' regarding Canada's colonial past and present. They look at their own experiences and assumptions about race and racial divides in Canada under a microscope in hopes that the rest of the population will do the same. With an afterword that is essentially a candid conversation by renowned CBC radio host Shelagh Rogers and Chief Justice Sinclair about their time working with the TRC, this collection is one of the many ways to begin the work of reconciliation in Canada. Metcalfe-Chenail hopes that these voices will inspire other Canadians who want an open dialogue and to maintain the conversation long after the buzz of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report has faded.

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

"A radiant debutbeautifully written, passionate, and whip smart." Ayelet Tsabari, winner of the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureIn the realm of fiction, women are too often cast as inherently goodtypically kind, always considerate, and traditionally in possession of high morals. Not so in the audacious stories of Waiting for the Cyclone.Debbie, a seemingly perfect mother, shoots pharmaceuticals at night, and Donna lies to her family about volunteering in Afghanistan so she can parasail in Turkey. There’s also Alison, who wakes up in bed with a tattooed Mexican man, instead of the less-interesting man who brought her on vacation (her husband). These women, and a dozen others, don’t need to be liked and are not compelled to make apologies. These women are perfectly imperfect.At times fast and reckless and at others, calm yet under high pressure, this collection is a powerful literary debut from one of Canada’s most promising young writers."Original, honest. . . Far from shelter, readers will find themselves pulled closer and closer to the eye of this storm. Brace yourself: these women are unflinchingly real. You will not be able to look away.” Elisabeth de Mariaffi, giller-nominated author of How to Get Along with Women

Waiting for the Cyclone: Stories

Dean, Leesa

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