All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he's saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Sandor, StevenSummary: - Author:Oertel, AndreasSummary:
In the thrilling third instalment in the popular Shenanigans series, Cody, Eric, and Rachel are back in the present after their time-travelling adventure and ready to return to their boring lives in the sleepy town of Sultana, Manitoba...
- Author:Ridge, YolandaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Bree is happiest when she's climbing the trees at Cedar Grove, her urban townhouse complex. She's the best climber around, even better than an older boy, Tyler, who drives her crazy with his competitiveness. When Ethan,...
- Author:Barton, BobSummary:
A tiny speck imprisoned in a world of white… This is an exciting adventure novel told through the eyes of eleven-year-old ships boy Jeremy. It is both history and fiction. The merchant ship Henrietta Maria has been trapped in the ice of...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
In this chilling graphic novel, Truman, the prime suspect in his girlfriend's murder, struggles to find the truth.
- Author:Boullata, Issa J.Summary:
Abdallah's encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami's moving search for his lost fiancée in Jerusalem closes the collection. In...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
A person doesn't have to do anything important to get recognition anymore; it's enough to know someone who does. Parasitic fame. Casey was more than just a dependable camp counselor dedicated to her little buddies in Cabin Three. She...
- Author:Brouwer, Sigmund, Morgan, CindySummary:
Elle is on the road as an opening act for Johnny James, the biggest star in country music. Touring is everything she's ever dreamed of, but it has unexpected downsides: crazy fans, jealous backup singers, weird rules on the tour...
- Author:Cellucci, Lucy LemaySummary:
Fifteen-year-old Zoe is many things, but confident is not one of them. Perhaps that’s why she prefers the company of animals. A self-professed advocate for their rights, Zoe is not above taking matters into her own hands. But the stakes...
- Author:Kyi, TanyaSummary:
When an adult neighbor is brutally murdered during a high-school house party, everyone seems to know who did it, but no one will go to the police. Jen was there and saw the body, and she has her own ideas about who is responsible. As a...
- Author:Tihanyi, EvaSummary:
In the thirteen stories that comprise Truth and Other Fictions, by Eva Tihanyi, women take centre stage as they experience the slippery relationship between art and truth, not merely as an aesthetic concept but a reality in...
- Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:
2016 SYRCA Snow Willow Award — Shortlisted It’s the best summer of Dani’s life, until the bottom falls out. Dani’s mother is getting married – again – because that’s what she does, and while she and her new husband jet around Europe for...
- Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:
When Dani sets out to uncover her father’s past, she also discovers her own future. Raised by her mother, eighteen-year-old Dani Lancaster only had six weeks to get to know her father, Sam, before he lost his battle with cancer. It was...
- Author:Gravel, EliseSummary:
Une fille qui pète ou qui parle fort, c'est possible ? Et un garçon qui pleure, qui fait la cuisine ou qui danse ? Bien sûr ! Dans «Tu peux», Elise Gravel s'attarde à déconstruire de façon ludique les stéréotypes de...
- Author:Morse, Garry ThomasSummary:
When Gellhorn, a notable poet, begins a university residency in a 'dynamic metropolis' and stays at the illustrious Máximo College, he finds himself scandalized, and for little known reason. Scrutiny by his new academic...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to. When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stories take on an aura of memoir as they invite us into the...
- Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
The High had a couple of hit songs in the late '70s and now they're back playing the nostalgia circuit at casinos. The bass player, Barry, and the lead singer, Cliff, have found a way to make the tour worthwhile: rob the drug dealers...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea travels once again to Moose Jaw, where she and her diabetic younger brother Tony soon get stuck in the perilous past in the now dangerous tunnels with Beanie, Vance and a gang of thieves.
- Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea once again travels back in time to uncover the secrets of an unsuspecting theft ring in the mysterious tunnels of Moose Jaw this time with her brother in tow.
Andrea would like to forget all about her...
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