Fleeing Stalin's advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child's life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Guilford, IreneSummary: - Author:Dean, LeesaSummary:
Thirteen stories that expose the complications of women who dare to deviate from the status quo. In the land of fiction, women are too often cast as inherently good—typically kind, always considerate, and traditionally in possession of...
- Author:Basu, ArjunSummary:
A surreal journey of a man who is searching for purpose and for happiness Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on...
- Author:McFarlane, SherylSummary:
In this timeless picture book, an old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea and awaits the whales' return each year to the bay. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Morgan, BerniceSummary:
The award-winning sequel to Random Passage. Waiting for Time, the sequel to the best-selling Random Passage, completes the epic saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. Here, Bernice Morgan tells the story of the strong-willed and...
- Author:Nason, RielSummary:
A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change! Hope's world is shaken when her parents announce that they're leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for her father's job. Hope's...
- Author:McDougall, CarolSummary:
Set in a small northern town, under the mythical shadow of the Sleeping Giant, Wake the Stone Man follows the complicated friendship of two girls coming of age in the 1960s. Molly meets Nakina, who is Ojibwe and a survivor of the...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Originally published in 1941, Wakefield’s Course begins in the spring of 1939 at Jalna. Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he’s more eager to see his younger cousins,...
- Author:Pacey, Desmond, Tierney, Frank M.Summary:
From the Canadian Short Story Library, twelve stories from Desmond Pacey, a major figure in Canadian Literature and criticism. The twelve stories are typical of Pacey's story-telling technique and what emerges from them is a distinctive...
- Author:Harvey-Fitzhenry, AlyxandraSummary:
Beauty is afraid to sleep, her dreams are haunted by the Shadow Lady who stalks and threatens her. During her waking hours, Beauty's life is safe, safer than she wants it to be. Since her mother's death, her father has become so over-...
- Author:Austen, CatherineSummary:
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the...
- Author:Kinew, WabSummary:
An Indigenous teen girl caught is between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. Bugz is caught between two...
- Author:Whellams, DavidSummary:
In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.
The semi–retired Cammon...
- Author:Zimanyi, Louise, Marshall, AlbertSummary:
This innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk--or Two-Eyed Seeing in the Mi'kmaq language--as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration of the...
- Author:Weaver, KeithSummary:
Written over a period of three years and across a range of styles and lengths, Walking with Albert is Keith Weaver's first short story compilation. These stories range from micro-narratives of a few pages in length to what could be...
- Author:Clark, SallySummary:
It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches rumoured to be found there. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Without enough supplies or...
- Author:Kunigis, Paul, Hellman, Thomas, Minière, Jérôme, Lévesque, Marie-Marine, Duchesne, Christiane, Côté, GenevièveSummary:
Livre enrichi musical – Collection Je Lis – Je Chante De Christiane Duchesne et Paul Kunigis, illustrations Geneviève Côté avec Jérôme Minière et Marie-Marine Lévesque A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P …………………..Z !!! Wapiti est un...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
During WWII, Jed’s English father serves as a fighter pilot overseas, while Jed and his mother move back to her Tsimshian community on Canada's west coast. When the military sets up a naval base in town, Jed is hired to help out,...
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village,...
- Author:Maruno, JenniferSummary:
Etienne is called on an adventure in the new world… In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure far from his family farm in Quebec. He meets an orphan destined to apprentice among the Jesuits at Fort Sainte-Marie....
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