Churchland! With one hilarious mishap after the next, this comic romance tells what it’s like to be a person—clergy or laity—involved in a fictional Anglican church today. The protagonist, young Rev. Marcia Peters, articulates ideas and ironies that many believers are discretely careful to avoid expressing out loud. In the midst of extreme storms, various kinds of love and marriage wreck havoc in family politics.

EAST WEST HAME’S BEST is a memoir of a girl finding her identity in the ‘50s and ‘60s on a farm northeast of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The four ancestral families of the central character are the keystones of her Scottish inheritance. Some historically significant individuals are mentioned in reference to ideas and events important to the story as a whole. This book is a product of the author’s memory and imagination, conceived originally as a straightforward family memoir. What came along was a series of stories of all sorts. The structure now resembles the matriarch’s miscellany.

In The Dominion of Women: The Personal and the Political in Canadian Women’s Literature, Fraser intends every pun in this academic study. Early settlers such as Brooke, Jameson, Traill, Moodie, Duncan and Wilson critique colonialism, imperialism and emancipation as they complain about struggling for survival in the time when “farmers hated trees.” The study ends with Laurence and the early Atwood’s rebellion against Americanism as they search for distinctive inspiration.

Parent – Teacher Interviews is a self-help book written for young parents and teachers. Its main point is that a child needs parents and teachers to work together as a positive team, and it offers practical solutions to dealing with the hostile “teacher from hell” and the intrusive “helicopter parent.” Using entertaining dialogues among experienced and compassionate teachers and parents, the book provides friendly, useful advice.

The Blessing Game appeals especially to tourists visiting Niagara wineries, arts events and points of historical interest. This novel is a birth mystery set in a fictional private school in the “bench” corner of the Niagara Region of Canada. The search for the identity of the infant’s mother is the main plot. Another is the community resistance to the underhanded land developer whose get-rich plans would disrupt the environment and the farming economy.

Hemingway’s Island is a novel packed with Hemingway lore for both aficionados and general readers. Mary, his fourth wife, writes an article each day of the last week the couple lives in Cuba until driven out by (read the book to find out). Intertwined with her seven day account is that of the second narrator, Alf. Half a century later, this graduate student from Toronto has just landed in Cuba, determined to find Mary’s lost manuscript.