Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel...
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Auteur: Jones, Diana WynneSommaire:
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Auteur: O'Leary, SaraSommaire:
Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Auteur: Hughes, SusanSommaire:
Moving with her father to a remote island off the coast of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia after the death of her mother, Ellie struggles with grief and loneliness in spite of a new friendship...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Kalluk, CelinaSommaire:
In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to...
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Auteur: Freedman, Karyn L.Sommaire:
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. One...
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Auteur: Wyatt, RachelSommaire:
A collection showcasing the trademark piercing insight and sardonic humour of one of Canada's true masters of the short story.
A woman carries a placard bearing the question "Are you...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Auteur: Robertson, DavidSommaire:
This haunting, emotionally resonant story delivers us into the world of Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Alice has never had an easy life, but...
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Auteur: Dumont, DawnSommaire:
Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that is to run the reserve's annual...
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Auteur: Schnell, MelanieSommaire:
While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured...
Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Eicher, Jerry S.Sommaire:
During Susan's flight to the world of the Englisha, she finished her GED requirements, got a driver's license, and dated an Englisha man. But when she returned home to her small Amish community...
Genre: Romance fiction, Religious fiction -
Auteur: Warren, DianneSommaire:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and...
Genre: Pastoral fiction, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Guenther, LisaSommaire:
As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Auteur: Day, SylviaSommaire:
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Miguel Santos leaves his high-powered life behind for a visit to the small town he grew up in... and the high school sweetheart whose wild passion he's never...
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Auteur: Paquette, AaronSommaire:
Aisling, a young Cree woman, sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows. They have to find and rescue her runaway younger brother, Eric....
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Auteur: Wilson, Judi TyabjiSommaire:
A political insider takes a revealing look at the public and private life of BC's controversial premier. In the blood-sport arena of provincial politics, BC's enigmatic premier, Christy Clark, has...