Best Canadian Female Authors - April 2024

Polar Bear Dawn: A Detective Bernadette Callahan Mystery (Detective Bernadette Callahan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Book 1)

Murders happen. But not with employees of the same company in Oil Camps in the high Arctic and Northern Canada. Two detectives, one from Alaska and one from Canada are given the case. They find the murders are connected. Now, they have to work together to find out why the victims were silenced. What secrets did their deaths conceal?Frank Mueller, the Alaskan Detective is close to retirement. He’s been through three marriages and two stints in rehab. He is on probation with the force. He knows the Anchorage Police department has given him this case because they don’t want it investigated fu... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00GK3FNN0
• ASIN: B00GK3FNN0
• Manufacturer: Red Cuillin Publishing

Milk and Honey

#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

• ASIN: 144947425X
• UPC: 050837351134
• ASIN: 144947425X
• ISBN: 9781449474256
• Brand: Rupi Kaur
• Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansAmy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Fr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143038095
• ASIN: 0143038095
• ISBN: 9780143038092
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Island of the Blue Dolphins

• ASIN: 0547328613
• ASIN: 0547328613
• ISBN: 0545289599
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Girl Last Seen: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart.An intense psychological thriller for readers of I Am Watching You, The Luckiest Girl Alive, and All the Missing Girls.Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots.I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago.If you have any knowledge of Olivia Shaw's whereabouts or any releva... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M0CIFN3
• ASIN: B01M0CIFN3
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect.* "[A] vivid story.... Enti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142401129
• ASIN: 0142401129
• ISBN: 9780142401125
• Brand: Puffin
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

The Namesake: A Novel

 "Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."—The New York Times "Hugely appealing."—People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."—Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world—conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake, the Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri br... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618485228
• UPC: 046442485227
• ASIN: 0618485228
• ISBN: 9780618485222
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Cinder

The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space. "An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction . . . a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars." ―Entertainment Weekly "Prince Charming among the cyborgs." ―The Wall Street JournalHumans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250007208
• ASIN: 1250007208
• ISBN: 9781250007209
• Brand: Marissa Meyer
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry "Harry" Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. This is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. Using the same inspired structure of alternating voices, Chris and Harry have recast material specifically for women, who already live longer and take better care of themselves than men. New material covers menopause and post-menopause, as well as cardiac disease, osteoporosis, sexuality, and more. This... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0761147748
• UPC: 019628147745
• ASIN: 0761147748
• ISBN: 9780761147749
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Roller Girl

The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Roller Girl is a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile!  For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older girls at camp, hang on to the friend she feels slipping awa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0803740166
• ASIN: 0803740166
• ISBN: 9780803740167
• Brand: Dial Books
• Manufacturer: Dial Books

Recruited: Rayna Tan Action Thriller Prequel Novella (The Rayna Tan Action Thriller Series)

  A suicide bomberA funeralA new beginning Captain Rayna Tan had served with Canadian Armed Forces for six years – three in General Forces and three with the secret elite Special Forces JTF2. A combat veteran in Afghanistan and Iraq, she had nineteen kills to her credit. Any jackass trying to force himself on her soon experienced Rayna’s black belt skills in Judo, Wushu & Tae Kwan Do.When Islamic terrorists took four US and Canadian forward air controllers hostage during a blistering battle in Iraq, the Canada United States Expeditionary Targeting Force tasked American Nav... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01AO5Q2MA
• ASIN: B01AO5Q2MA

The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel

A New York Times BestsellerA decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent.Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons.Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They lov... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312427298
• ASIN: 0312427298
• ISBN: 9780312427290
• Brand: Anita Diamant
• Manufacturer: Picador

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Novel

• ASIN: B0027G6XDS
• ASIN: B0027G6XDS
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Press

A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel (Shades of Magic)

A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari―magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes―Red London―and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a worl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0765376466
• ASIN: 0765376466
• ISBN: 0765376466
• Brand: Tor Books
• Manufacturer: Tor Books

The Signature of All Things: A Novel

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventua... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143125842
• UPC: 884742660735
• ASIN: 0143125842
• ISBN: 0143125842
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.

• UPC: 213363895

The Best of Intentions (Canadian Crossings Book #1) - eBook

In the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. Yet Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew

• UPC: 431477900
• Rating: 4.667

Commentary on Paul's Letter to Romans : With a Revised Greek Text, Compiled from the Best Recent Authors and a New Translation

Commentary on Paul's Letter to

• UPC: 53508909
• Rating: 5.0

Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville : The Autobiography of One of Scotland's First Female Scientists, Prolific Author and Activist for Women's Right to Vote

The autobiography of Mary Somerville, the author and scientist popularly deemed "The Queen of Nineteenth-Century Science," is a lively and candid account of a gifted and intelligent woman succeeding against the odds. Born in the

• UPC: 937989783

Catfight Lover's Bundle: Female Fighting At Its Best - eBook

Here from the bestselling female fighting author Ariadne Vice are three stories guaranteed to get you reading one handed. Any catfight fan needs these short stories for those dull moments standing in line, stuck on

• UPC: 788912972

Best O'Luck: How A Fighting Canadian Won The Thanks Of Britain's King - eBook

An American with the British forces in France during the First World War recounts his experiences and how his exploits won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal.Alexander McClintock did not have any literary pretensions when he

• UPC: 473239251

The Danes Sketched by Themselves (Complete): A Series of Popular Stories by The Best Danish Authors - eBook

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology,

• UPC: 413279794

The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - eBook

Rare tales of terror and mystery from the pens of the finest female authors of the Victorian period. Authors included are Mary Shelley, Amelia Edwards, Catherine Crowe and many

• UPC: 477565359

Best Canadian Stories

A annual collection of the best Canadian short stories selected by legendary editor and champion of short fiction, John

• UPC: 56139537

Imaginarium 4 : The Best Canadian Speculative Writing

An annual reprint anthology of the best Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry of the previous calendar year

• UPC: 45052097