Two families of different cultural backgrounds collide spectacularly when their two eldest children decide to marry.
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Love Marriage
a Novel
- Dannie has planned the next five years down to the finest detail, including her imminent engagement to the man of her dreams. Then she has a dream that the man of her dreams is someone else. But it’s just a dream. Or is it a premonition?
- This beguiling tale of a young woman discovering the excitements and pleasures of 1940s New York City is told with a light touch, as the heroine, Vivian Morris, romps through the city. Gradually the story deepens into a psychologically keen…
- Frank’s Korean parents disowned his sister when she married a black man. Now Frank is in love with a white classmate. He and another classmate pretend to fall for each other, but secretly sneak around with their real dates.
- Three elite soldiers are sent by the queen to hunt down a war criminal. In the group is Zazi, a reformed thief, and Jase, an outlaw leader. When they are chained together by kidnappers, the two won’t stop lying to each other. Nevertheless, the two…
- From the Ones Who Got Away Series. Taryn is a school shooting survivor who, now a doctor, is launching a new program to prevent teen violence. She meets the brother of one of the shooters who attacked her school, and starts a clandestine…
- Third in the Loyal League Series. Set during the Civil War, Daniel is a detective the North’s spy ring, Loyal League. He is haunted by dreams of his captivity as a slave, and is consumed by a thirst for vengeance. Janeta Sanchez agrees to act as a…
- Olive finds herself with an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii when her twin and new brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding. Unfortunately, her travel companion is Ethan, the groom’s brother, and someone she doesn’t like. Once in Hawaii,…
- The 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner, translated from Polish, explores the complexity of life's struggles through intertwined stories linked by travel through time and space.
- Never one to fear stirring up a storm over racial and socioeconomic issues, the author’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel is not for the easily offended. The narrator lives in Dickens, a ghetto in Los Angeles. When Dickens is removed from the official…
- Houdini’s life is recounted through the damaged memory of Martin, who killed Houdini with a punch to the stomach. Martin suffers from a rare condition in which his brain invents memories to replace lost ones. A thriller and historical fiction that…
- Meet Gus and Hazel, two teens fighting cancer. They met at a group therapy session, and are now inseparable. Their poignant romance is filled with humour and smart repartee.
- Former punk rocker, Bennie Salazar, and his bandmates from the Flaming Dildos wonder what happened to their youthful ideals. Bennie now works as an executive for a record company. His troubled young assistant, Sasha, is a compulsive thief. All must…
- A ribald epic about feuding intermarried clans in Newfoundland filled with unrequited love, revenge, and colourful language. When a whale coughs up an otherworldly man, life becomes more eventful.
- A brilliant self-deprecating autobiography that covers the pranks Sedaris and his sister pulled on their parents, his futile attempts to learn French, and his other misadventures.
- First book in the Pennyroyal Green Series. Colin Eversea is set to hang for a murder he did not commit. Madeleine Greenway rescues him, not out of kindness, but for the money. The two become unwilling allies to discover the true killer.
- After the break up of his relationship, Daniel leaves his job on Parliament Hill for a faculty position at the University of Ottawa. He moves into a boathouse apartment owned by a cranky professor. They agree to swap roles: Daniel will teach Angus’…
- First book in the Slightly Series. Colonel Lord Aidan promised a dying officer that he would protect the man’s sister, Eve, from scheming relatives. Little did he know that she would turn his world upside down.
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