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Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature.

What do literary dystopias reflect about the times?

Meet The Gorgons The Legionnaires Chicken Treblinka The Statistics . . . Meet Dee, Gordyn, Em, and Jay, indecisive members of the greatest New Wave band to ever spring from River Bend City.

When English Professor Marta Spëk is offered a film consultant’s contract, she’s fighting a bad case of year-end doldrums.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career.

The riches to rags to riches again story of a film star and her family and their coming to terms with a homosexual son and tragedy.

This is the story of a successful business man faced with the death of his wife from cancer, a custody suit for her child, and the adjustment to his life this causes.

Contemporary novel of two people from different worlds whose lives are changed by 'five days in Paris'.

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York.

The time is the 1950's, life was simple, the family was nearly everything.

After one broken marriage Gillian feels she has found happiness with Chris, however his infidelity sends her into the arms of another man.

As one of the world's richest women, beautiful Kesia Saint Martin was the pampered darling of the jet-set, her life a careless round of glamourous games.

Bill Thigpen, writer and producer of the No. 1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he failed to notice his marriage collapsing.

Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice and a home, near San Francisco.