"There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are ... brittle." When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Bishop, AnneSummary: - Author:Sutherland, SuzanneSummary:
2016 Junior Library Guild Selection 2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended She’s with the band, whether she likes it or not. Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only...
- Author:Gill, Nav K.Summary:
It’s the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha. A secret that looms over her family has reinforced her proud resistance to her family’s Indian identity. However, one day changes everything, and...
- Author:Clark, JudithSummary:
One more year. That’s all Gunnar has to wait until graduation. More importantly, it’s one more year until he’ll feel safe to come out.
Gunnar has kept his sexuality a secret — only his twin sister knows he’s gay. Coming out now... - Author:Kazenbroot, NellySummary:
Googol and Googolplex have come back to earth to continue their scavenger hunt. Tutus, sand dollars and peacock feathers are on their list. Luckily Troy and Pippa are ready to help, and the ocean is nearby, but so is Martin Kelly, the...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a girl struggles with the threats that her abortion-providing parents are receiving and the reactions of her girlfriend's family.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
It's a new season for Nick and Kia and once again they have to prove they've got what it takes to make the Mississauga Magic rep team. There is no free ride on Coach Barkley's team. The tryouts are tough but fair and it looks like the...
- Author:Sileika, AntanasSummary:
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war. Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement...
- Author:Sileika, AntanasSummary:
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war. Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement...
- Author:McIsaac, M.J.Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Nick Carver is tired of living in his older brother's shadow. Markus is the lacrosse team hero, love interest of Nick's longtime crush and now the recipient of a prestigious scholarship from the Philston Weiks Academy....
- Author:DeWitt, PatrickSummary:
On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." — Toronto Star From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel ): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy...
- Author:Greenaway, R.M.Summary:
A heartbreaking set of murders bring detectives Leith and Dion together in the Lower Mainland, where violence flows like a riptide. Last summer the inlet waters washed an unnamed woman’s body onto the rocks of North Vancouver’s Neptune...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Discover hidden gems from the bestselling author of the Jalna series. A farm inheritance cultivates an illicit love affair. An orphan finds a home with two sisters and their writer lodger and soon discovers strange and frightening...
- Author:Daigneault, Claude, Lessard, MichèleSummary:
Une amitié explosive met en scène deux personnages rigolos, Pyro, un jeune dragon peu débrouillard, et Glucosine, une rondelette apprentie sorcière qui préfère les bonbons à l’apprentissage de son métier. Pyro est un petit dragon qui...
- Author:Durand, ClaudieSummary:
Mère de famille, Justine Renaud connaît son lot d'ennuis : après un divorce difficile au terme d'une longue union, la voilà aux prises avec un problème d'alcool qui s'aggrave, puis en deuil à la suite du...
- Author:Durand, ClaudieSummary:
Depuis dix ans, Justine et Pierre veillent sur leur famille reconstituée. Dans la grande maison affectueusement baptisée l'Auberge Inn, les six enfants du couple ont grandi dans un contexte d'unité et de tendresse, sujets...
- Author:Durand, ClaudieSummary:
Vingt années se sont écoulées depuis que Justine et Pierre ont osé relever le défi de recomposer une famille avec six enfants. Après avoir vécu toute la gamme des joies et des peines, le couple peut maintenant aspirer à mener...
- Author:Cloutier, AnnieSummary:
Le public raffole de la famille Gagnon, coqueluche des médias et propriétaire des Biscuits Gagnon, fleuron de l’industrie agroalimentaire québécoise. Six frères talentueux et honnêtes, six belles-sœurs performantes et souriantes, une...
- Author:Gill, PaulineSummary:
Née de famille fortunée, Elsie Reford est philanthrope et fondatrice des Jardins de Métis. Toute jeune, elle quitte avec sa famille sa région natale de Perth en Ontario pour s'établir dans l'Ouest de Montréal, là où elle découvre la...
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