Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour. The object of her fantasies, a musician, he's the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary: - Author:Summary:
Now in its 47th year, 'Best Canadian Stories' has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline...
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
After a fight with her best friend, Lizzy, Hanna learns how to see things from another person's perspective. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Warsh, SylviaSummary:
Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her....
- Author:Royal, GillesSummary:
Ancien enquêteur recyclé en détective privé, Christian Lemieux est un homme solitaire, plutôt asocial et certainement déçu par l’amour. Il regarde la vie passer en observateur désabusé. Jusqu’au jour où un homme gravement malade...
- Author:Dinsdale, ChristopherSummary:
The fate of the known world is settled on the shores of Canada In Christopher Dinsdale’s third historical adventure for young readers, Connor MacDonald and his mother have encountered Henry Sinclair, Norwegian prince and Earl of Orkney...
- Author:Kerz, AnnaSummary:
In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has...
- Author:O'Connor, Heather M.Summary:
In this high-interest sports novel, a star player on an elite soccer team is forced to make tough choices when illegal gambling gets him in way over his head.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
DJ has always been the best at everything-sports, school, family-so climbing Kilimanjaro is just another thing he'll accomplish almost effortlessly. Or so he thinks, until he arrives in Tanzania and everything starts to go wrong. He's...
- Author:Cook Waldron, KathleenSummary:
12-year-old Ari inherits his grandfather's unspoiled lakeside land and cabin. But his aunt and father want to sell it all to luxury hotel developers.
It's bittersweet: Ari's beloved grandfather has died, but he's left Ari an...
- Author:de Nikolits, LisaSummary:
When Joss finds herself having to make mortgage payments without help from her depressed, stoner boyfriend who has just moved out, and the company she works for folds leaving her suddenly unemployed, she is forced to sell her house, on...
- Author:Jennings, MaureenSummary:
November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at...
- Author:Wishinsky, Frieda, Griffiths, DeanSummary:
In Beware, Pirates!, the debut title in the Canadian Flyer Adventures series, friends Matt and Emily discover the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled, in Emily’s attic. The magic sled transports them back to the year 1577...
- Author:Zaremba, EveSummary:
In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, detective Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost 60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate. The Keremos mysteries was one of the first...
- Author:Holdstock, PaulineSummary:
The artistic world of mid-16th Century Italy comes to life through the eyes of a piebald slave stolen from her home and family in Africa. Chiara, as she is eventually named, is sold to Paolo Pallavicino, an artist in service of Giuliano...
- Author:Peterson, LoisSummary:
Since the death of his father, everyone has been telling Cam that he’s the man of the house. Cam takes his responsibility seriously. He keeps the grieving household organized and takes care of his sister. But when the man who had been...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney has healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and helped him grow into a man of character. But when his job as a Royal Canadian Mountie brings tragedy into his life once again, Henry...
- Author:Addison, Marilou, Guilbault, GenevièveSummary:
Rien ne va plus pour Nadeige et Émy-Lee. À peine revenues de leur croisière dans les Caraïbes, celles-ci ont peine à se remettre de leurs émotions. Dévastée par sa rupture avec le beau Maxime-Alexandre, Émy-Lee poursuit tant bien que...
- Author:Addison, Marilou, Guilbault, GenevièveSummary:
L’été est enfin arrivé ! Le soleil, les petits boulots, la belle vie et surtout, les amours de vacances ! Pour Nadeige, le retour dans son quartier est signe de renouveau, mais aussi de choix difficiles. Retourner au collège, ou rester...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
Derek thinks he might be falling in love. The problem is, he hasn't been entirely honest with his online boyfriend. Derek sent Ethan a photo taken before he got depressed and gained eighty pounds. Derek hasn't been honest with his...
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