Canada Reads

Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you to her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series. Detective "Parks" Pat — Margie Patenaude — is a new Calgary homicide detective. Being Métis and a single mom, she has a few things on her plate. Working on a spate of murders in Calgary and area parks earns Margie her nickname. These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a ...

A mesmerizing odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, and the rich history it reveals. What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's epic, never-before-attempted solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season. It's also a...

Welcome to A2.2 — La Vie Active Bienvenue au niveau A2.2 — La vie active. You are about to complete the A2 level in Pronounce French Without Guessing with practical French for hobbies, travel, appointments, phone calls, banking, postal services, neighborhoods, and daily planning. This book follows the same proven method: No IPA. No audio required. Just read and speak French naturally. If you completed Books 1A, 1B, and 2A, you already know the system works. You have built a strong pronunciation base across greetings, family, home life, routines, transport, shopping, restaurants, and ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune returns with a sun-drenched and incandescent new novel...

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns in this latest chapter of the Argeneau series with an immortal who is having a bit of bad luck while trying to woo his life mate… Alasdair MacKenzie has never once considered himself unlucky in all the centuries he’s been an immortal...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* What happens when your worst nightmare becomes your reality? One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He's travelling alone, all the way across the country, to visit his grandparents and father, Jessie's soon-to-be...

A darkly humorous yet uplifting novel about a grieving mother who starts working at a funeral home and discovers that the best way to honor the dead is to live—from the author of the “insightful, moving” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) Sunshine Nails. All Cleo Dang...

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world...

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? Samra Habib...

No Guessing. No Dictionary. Just Reading. Lire le français sans deviner — Niveau A1.2 (Read French Without Guessing — Level A1.2) is the second book in the Read French Without Guessing interlinear reader series. Like Book 1, it lets you read real French immediately—with complete comprehension—because the English meaning appears directly above each French word. What Is Interlinear Reading? Interlinear text places the translation directly above the original words, so you understand instantly while keeping the natural flow of reading: LucasLucas se réveillewakes up àat septseven ...

In the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing, and set amid the beauty and wilderness of the Colorado mountains, an unforgettable and deeply moving story of a young woman who follows her heart Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of...

A single mom struggling to raise her rebellious son finds unexpected support in a kind-hearted cowboy in this spicy romance from the author of Seeing Red and Change of Hart. She’s afraid she’s not enough. He’ll make damn sure she knows she is. Single mom Whitney Hart is, quite simply...

After an accident erases years of his memory, a man returns to his family's ranch in hopes of piecing back together the life and love he thought he had lost forever. He’s forgotten their love story. She’ll help him write a new one. Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this spicy romance from the author of Alive and Wells and Seeing Red, a jaded woman reluctantly returns to her hometown—and to the cowboy who broke her heart and drove her away. She spent years trying to forget. He’ll do anything to make her remember. Wells Canyon...

Complete the B2 Level — Speak French With Cultural Confidence You've come so far. Book 4B: La Culture et la Communication is the final step to upper intermediate mastery — the level where you engage as an equal in sophisticated French conversation. Discuss music, history, philosophy, literature, and formal communication with the confidence of someone who truly belongs in the language. The Proven Method — Now Applied to Culture Every paragraph follows the same trusted four-step pattern: Read with pronunciation and meaning — sound and sense, side by side Read clean French — test ...

Welcome to A2 — La Vie à la Maison Bienvenue au niveau A2 — La vie quotidienne approfondie You just read about family visits, the métro, shopping, and dinner at home — all in French, at A2 level. If you completed Books 1A and 1B, you already have more than 400 French words in your pronunciation toolkit. You know the method: read the easy English letters above each French word, speak aloud, and French comes out naturally. Now Book 2A moves you into daily communication. You will talk about extended family, describe your home, use public transportation, shop in different stores, order ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "It will break your heart and nourish your soul. . . . Her finest novel yet." —Nigella Lawson From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Prepare to laugh and cry by turns with Rachel and the Walsh family. Back...

“Strap in for a hilarious and satisfying ride.” —Terry Fallis, bestselling author of Operation Angus A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects… Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played...

Terrorists obtain a nuclear bomb ...and it’s heading for America. Green Beret operative George Ferrar faces his nemesis in a dark cave in Afghanistan…then learns that a loose nuke is heading to America's heartland. But who will believe him? Everybody from the CIA to the FBI to Congress thinks he has turned against America. Ferrar is resourceful, knowledgeable, and deadly, but must take his game to a whole new level to stay alive, track down the bomb, and save the nation. He races against time as the bomb slips through the hands of numerous countries, from Pakistan to Bahrain to Canada ...

*Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who...