An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads,...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Petersen, AliceSummary: - Author:Hawley, AlixSummary:
Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him. Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through 2 stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of 1 son at the...
- Author:Sullivan, Andrew F.Summary:
All We Want is Everything, Andrew F. Sullivan's exceptional debut collection of short stories, finds the misused and forgotten, the places in between, the borderlands on the edge of town where dead fields alternate with empty warehouses...
- Author:Lyon, AnnabelSummary:
Eleven-year-old Edie Jasmine Snow has a "perfect" thirteen-year-old sister, two loving parents, and a cat named Dusty. She also has a grandmother she suspects is a witch and a grandfather who insists on calling her Albert. Framed by...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
It's the All-Star team, made up of the WHL's young hockey players, just one short step away from the NHL. Their goal is to beat the Russian All-Stars in a best-of-seven series to be shown as a television special. Hog Burnell, one of the...
- Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:
Allegra thinks being at a performing-arts high school will change her life and make her a better dancer. But high school is still high school, complete with cliques, competition and cruelty. Allegra's refuge comes in the form of a class...
- Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he...
- Author:Brown, E.R.Summary:
2014 Edgar Award - Mystery Writers of America — Shortlisted, Best Paperback Original Medicinal marijuana can be murder. Charming, wealthy Randle Kennedy has a secret: he’s British Columbia’s most prolific producer of boutique...
- Author:Garvie, MaureenSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address. She tried to find Charmaine once, but that only brought her family to the attention of the...
- Author:Rehner, JanSummary:
Almost True is the story of an extraordinary friendship among four women living in a small village in Burgundy during World War II. Madeleine, the eccentric village beauty, is a spinner of stories and dreams. Léa, the doctor's...
- Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:
Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the...
- Author:Counios, Angie, Gane, DavidSummary:
The first exciting adventure of Shepherd and Wolfe. High school student, Sheri Beckman, has disappeared. After a massive search turns up nothing, her boyfriend, Tony Shepherd, joins forces with the wise-ass troublemaker, Charlie Wolfe,...
- Author:Page, KathySummary:
Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds...
- Author:Bar-el, DanSummary:
In this offbeat alphabet book, children find themselves with the wrong objects for the tasks at hand until they find a way to help each other out. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Duncan, Sandy Frances, Szanto, GeorgeSummary:
"Duncan and Szanto bring their A-game to this daring and complex novel."—Lou Allin, Crime Writers of Canada. Sandro Vasiliadis, a nurse at the Whidbey Island General Hospital, has died of an apparent heroin overdose. When his grieving...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day...
- Author:Hébert, Anne, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher...
- Author:Stemp, HeatherSummary:
The year is 1932. The place is Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, where most of the early transatlantic flights take off. Unfortunately, more of them end in tragedy than in success. Some crash on takeoff, some crash into the Atlantic Ocean,...
- Author:Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
Amélia est une enfant mal accrochée à la vie. Quand elle perd d’un coup sa mère puis son père, elle décide de ne plus continuer. Le temps fait d’elle une femme sans qu’elle s’en aperçoive. Angelo veille sur elle de tout son amour....
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