Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: Canada

A sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted author Eva Crocker.

Back in the Land of the Living brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John’s. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The mission is simple: Find the killer, escape by sunrise, do NOT fall in love.

Murder and espionage meet at a luxury wine auction in cottage country. Can Amanda and Gillian escape without losing their lives…or their hearts?

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As things heat up between them, Elly must choose between her past and her future, and Alex is faced with a decision that will shake her to the core of all she holds dear.

Land poor, Elly leaves the family farm and heads to the big city to become something better than a waitress in a small-town diner. Though she’s succumbed to economic necessity and the siren song of her one-time lover, Alex, she can’t bear to give up the farm that has been in her family for generations. As things heat up between them, Elly must choose between her past and her future, and Alex is faced with a decision that will shake her to the core of all she holds dear.

Pulled in two different directions, will the city kitty and country mouse be able to make it work?

Kitty Kerr is a high-flying lawyer when her career plans are derailed by the luscious blackberries from Lucy Shen’s Country Mouse Farms. Kitty can’t get enough of the fruit, or of Lucy. Suddenly, she’s wanting things she never dared to want—Lucy, and the life on the farm.

Which mistakes are irredeemable?

Would you fight to save a five-year relationship after your lover has had a drunken one-night stand? Alex is torn by this question. Then, on a business trip to Canada, she discovers she’s drawn to another woman, shattering everything she thought she knew about herself. A lesbian romance that asks the interesting questions, not the easy ones.

An ex-girlfriend, a wilderness adventure, and only one cabin.

Avery’s dream winter trip to the Yukon hits a snag when she finds herself stuck in a tiny yurt with her high-school ex, Summer. Partnered up for snowy activities, the pair must find a way to get along. But what if they also discover a flame that was never extinguished?

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She never thought the one that threw her away could steal her heart again twenty years later.

A lot of time has passed since Charlie Baxter has thought about Emilie Martin and everything that happened on the last day of her senior year. In fact, she thought, it would never be an issue again. How wrong she was. How different her life is about to become.

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Is this the woman who can save her in all the ways a woman can be saved?

Bodyguard Jomana Silver is assigned Reegan Slay, a lesbian fiction author. Reegan screams fun and easy-going, but it’s just a colourful façade to the turmoil she smothers with her charm. Can she survive this new chapter when Jomana causes her walls to crumble?

Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea.

Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job’s finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. She’s a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist’s repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. All should be well, really. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral, her backstabbing fellow professors, a cutthroat new dean – and the fact that the sentient and malevolent Crawley Hall has decided it wants them all out, and the hall and its hellish hares will stop at nothing to get rid of them.

Grieving widow Lana Mills pulls American Michelle Devereaux from the raging floodwater of the Kennetcook River, and immediately becomes entangled in Michelle’s pursuit of a lost Acadian treasure.

Following the clues from one historical Acadian settlement to the next, they search for a golden cross bequeathed to an Acadian priest by France’s King Louis XV. But dangerous men are also on the hunt for the cross and for Michelle. Canadian Mountie Emily Stone has been patiently waiting for Lana to be open to the possibility of love once more, but perhaps she’s waited too long. Now she must find and help them before Lana not only loses her heart to Michelle and her obsession, but possibly her life as well.

Nineteen-year-old Tessa is suddenly tasked with spreading her great aunt's ashes all over the US and Canada so the rest of her relatives can receive their inheritance.

After her initial dismay, she finds the road trip full of mystery and surprises. Old family secrets, girlfriend problems, and beautiful sunsets accompany her as she honors her aunt’s wishes.

The Urn Carrier’s numerous awards include first in Dramatic Fiction at the GCLS awards, 2017, First awards in Contemporary Thriller and Debut Transgender fiction through the Rainbow awards, 2017, and runner up in over all Transgender, Honorable Mention in over all Fiction. From the Rainbow Awards: Solid storytelling. A triumph!

Mariska Cooper is a twenty-two year old student/waitress by day, feared vigilante by night.

She and her best friend, Lucas Forsythe, lead the Guardian team, a ragtag group who battle the thriving criminal community in Toronto, Canada. Mariska, grieving the loss of her teammate and love of her life Lisa, throws herself into her work and focuses her mission on keeping the city safe.

Cassidy (Sid) Harris is an uncompromising art gallery curator, blindsided and thrust into the midst of a career-ending deal involving a powerful celebrity art collector.

Where We Are is a sensual account of two women who discover a way to walk on the same path together and—with the help of an Indigenous tale, a Canadian art movement, and the mysterious appearance of dimes—also discover the gift of staying in one spot, in time, in space, and in love.

She became tangled in a web of discovery and raging desire!

Valerie, a recently divorced CFO from LA, joins an online book club after discovering lesbian erotica. A new chapter in her life starts when Syd, a fellow member she’s been sharing a sexy online exchange with, invites her to her house in Quebec.

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A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversation, Dandelion Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it’s like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth.

Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values and her parents’ dissolving marriage, through complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Québec, this inspiring story has already connected with a wide readership, and has been adopted by many schools to help expand worldviews and curriculums.

In this gentle, slow-burn, lesbian romance set in a small town in Canada, a grieving, over-fifty security expert finds she still has a lot of living—and loving—left to do.

Is there life after loss? Lee Glenn doesn’t think so. Crushed by grief after the death of her wife, the co-owner of a private security company retreats from the world.

But love doesn’t give up easily.

Two women haunted by old wounds find unexpected strength in each other in this heart-warming lesbian romance novel.

Emotional wounds aren’t always apparent, and those that haunt Marika and Rhiannon are deep and lasting.

On the surface, Marika appears to be a wealthy, successful lawyer, while Rhiannon is a reclusive, maladjusted loner. But Marika, in her own way, is as damaged as the younger Rhiannon. When circumstances throw them together one summer, they begin to reach out, each finding unexpected strengths in the other.