Gil Adamson

THE OUTLANDER, 2007, 312 pp.
Set in 1903, this novel follows Mary Boulton on her journey West as she attempts to escape pursuit by two brothers of the husband she has just killed.

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Dean Francis

FRUIT, 2004, 250 pp.
The kids at school are always making fun of fourteen year old Peter Paddington, and things aren't about to get any better when his nipples start talking to him! To cope, Peter escapes into a fantasy world of his own making.

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Lawrence Hill

THE BOOK OF NEGROES, 2007, 486 pp.
Aminata's peaceful life in Africa is interrupted when she is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the United States. Her story does not end here, but twists and turns as it takes her throughout North American and eventutally back to Africa.

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David Adams Richards

MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN, 2000, 432 pp.
Sydney Henderson's reaction to the near-death of a friend as a young boy shapes not only his future, but that of his family as well. When he's implicated in a horrible crime, will he be forced to rethink his pacifist ideals?

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