Bookland: 20 books

"The Silence of the North" is a poetic reflection of Canadian least known and most enigmatic Arctic region. Alan Butcher challenges our notions of landscape and wilderness, culture and perception, the limits of experience, and the nature of being. This is a poetry collection that investigates the human...

When a young university student is assigned the task of writing her obituary by her journalism professor, she procrastinates. Who wants to think about their own death? An obituary is really about life - how one has lived it - and the assignment sends Maxine down a road of hopes and dreams, what she imagines...

When Aley Pierce writes, her words dont stay on the page but spill into reality. Or so her neighbours think, who see her words as evil. Tensions escalate into an organized campaign of book banning and book burning, until Aley herself doubts who she is and what she does. A century and a half earlier,...

Spanning two continents, one war and several generations, the novel follows the stories of three unforgettable characters as their lives become forever linked and grounded in Muskoka, Ontario. The book examines the meaning of blood and ancestry and the inevitable conclusion that what really matters is not about race or religion, but about finding a place and purpose in the world.

Abandoned at an early age, one parent simply packing and leaving, the other suffering an unexpected death, Michaela is raised by her grandparents. Precocious and independent, she runs away for the first time when she is four, and for the final time when she is fifteen. To survive on the street, Michaela...

What if it were true that God has been very active in your life, intervening on your behalf, blessing you, and speaking to you, but you either didn’t hear it or couldn’t remember it? For the majority of you this is true. You need to be freed from something you didn’t even know had you captive....