Ji-won’s family life is thrown for a loop when her father abruptly leaves her mother for another woman. Distraught and hopeless, Ji-won’s Umma longs for companionship while holding out hope her husband eventually returns. This all changes when Ji-won’s mother meets George, a middle-aged white man with questionable motives. Ji-won, overwhelmed from both a stressful…
BOWER: A LEGENDARY LIFE is the story of the life and career of beloved Toronto Maple Leafs legend, Johnny Bower. While Johnny was not able to put pen to paper to tell his life story in his own words prior to his passing in 2017, author Dan Robson took on the task of sorting through…
Charlie and Eve are the proud owners of an old fixer-upper in the Pacific Northwest; a home they plan to flip and sell. While settling in, Eve is home alone when she hears a knock at the door. A man, Thomas, stands on the porch alongside his family. He says they are passing through town…
IRON MIKE: MY LIFE BEHIND THE BENCH is the memoir of professional hockey coach Mike Keenan. I came of age as a hockey fan in the mid-90s, right around the time Keenan was winning his first – and only – Stanley Cup as head coach of the New York Rangers. Despite multiple trips to the…
Discouraged following endless employment rejections, aspiring fashionista Dez (Desiree) Lane may have found her ticket to trendiness. While it means going out with creep Patrick Ruskin, this may allow her to crack open the door to meet Patrick’s mother – fashion icon and magazine magnate Marie Caulfield-Ruskin. After a few short weeks of dating, Dez…
Veteran sportscaster Jim Lang is back once again, this time without frequent collaborator Bob McKenzie, to present another volume of the Everyday Hockey Heroes series. Lang presents the story of fifteen men and women whose selfless actions have helped to make the game more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. The stories here are uplifting and…
Since childhood, Margaret and Charity have been inseparable. When Charity goes missing and no one seems to care, a mysterious package arrives on Margaret’s front step. Inside is an iPhone with a text that upends Margaret’s world and provides insight into Charity’s whereabouts and perhaps who she’s been all along. Set just outside Niagara Falls…
Kristen Hannah’s THE NIGHTINGALE follows a pair of sisters during Germany’s occupation of France in the midst of the Second World War. One sister, Isabelle, refuses to sit idly by and allow the enemy to operate without opposition whereas the other sister, Vienne, must resort to doing everything possible to keep her daughter Sophie safe;…
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