Opening night of the season at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Centre is a glittering event on the city’s arts calendar, and this October, there is real drama happening offstage. Gerald Blaise, the company’s well-loved Artistic Director has...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Anderson, RayeSummary: - Author:Elliott, AliciaSummary:
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction* *Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground comes a mind-bending, gripping novel about Native...
- Author:Poulsen, David A.Summary:
2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • High Plains Book Award — Shortlisted, Young Adult category When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending...
- Author:Carter, KernSummary:
Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they've created a...
- Author:Anderson, RayeSummary:
When Stella Magnusson, beautiful, talented but devious, turns up dead at the Cullen Village dump in Manitoba's Interlake, Margo Wishart and her Book Club take notice. So does Corporal Roxanne Calloway of the RCMP. Soon they are in...
- Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:
Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Andrea Spalding’s award-winning books for kids! “Highly Recommended!” — CM Magazine, for An Island of My Own “I would rate Finders Keepers a five — that’s a wow.” — Shuswap Market News, for Finder’...
- Author:Warwaruk, LarrySummary:
Twelve-year-old Andrei moves from Ukraine to a Canadian homestead in 1900, and has to choose between the magic of Eastern Europe and the power of the new land and its people.
Andrei and his family leave Ukraine for a homestead...
- Author:Mockler, KathrynSummary:
With dreamlike stories and dark humor, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse. Absurdist flash fictions in "The Boy is Dead" depict...
- Author:Thibeault Jr, NormandSummary:
Quelques heures seulement s’étaient écoulées depuis l’intervention des mystérieux « Anges Gardiens » à la Tour Premium. Les plans du colonel Falcon mis en déroute, Jordan et ses compagnons venaient de réaliser l’impensable. De retour au...
- Author:Thibeault Jr, NormandSummary:
Si, dans la grande cité des Anges, la situation semblait hors de contrôle, Chantilly n’était pas en reste. Des créatures sanguinaires hantaient la vallée et menaçaient la paisible communauté. Les gens commençaient à se rassembler. On...
- Author:Easton, DonSummary:
In this gut-wrenching sequel to Loose Ends and Above Ground, Jack Taggart’s quest for justice takes him from the beaches of Cuba to the ghettos of Hanoi. Jack Taggart is an undercover Mountie whose quest for justice takes him from the...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
A Phoenix Honor Award Book Young Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend's father was beaten up just because he's Jewish. Brian Doyle brings his award-winning blend of humor and wisdom to bear in this mystery...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. Readers will recognize Larry Sole from -The Lesser Blessed- in...
- Author:McBay, BruceSummary:
Wendy and Zachary decide to form a club to help their neighbors and come up with the name Angel's Inc. Their first mission is to help an old woman across the street. They do just that, but it turns out she didn't actually want to cross...
- Author:Anik HamelSummary:
Estime de soi - Amour de soi - Confiance en soi Angélique a hérité d'un don magique qui transforme les enfants grâce à l'estime de soi. Aidée de son merveilleux ami Josef, le ver à soie qui fabrique des boules de soie...
- Author:Smith, Heather, Carter, Alice, Down, ChristianSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Angus loves sparkly things, so much so that he can hear them. To Angus, shiny objects not only look beautiful; they also crackle, buzz and go whiz-bang-POP! His unique ability is...
- Author:Mouawad, WajdiSummary:
When he discovers the brutal murder of his wife, Wahhch Debch is paralyzed by spasms of grief: he must know at all costs who did this. Spurred by rage, he embarks on a furious odyssey across America that awakens long-buried memories...
- Author:Leggat, AlexandraSummary:
Finalist, Trillium Book Award.
The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat's characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the...
- Author:Macleod, AlexanderSummary:
From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill &...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
Kids encounter all kinds of animal ghosts in this spirited debut volume. Some involve pets, others involve wild animals, but all are based on fact and very, very scary! When a fishtank comes mysteriously to life, a boy struggles to...
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