When Ryan's dad runs away from home because of the change of life, Ryan is sent to spend the summer with his aunt in Peggy's Cove. He goes fishing, almost gets into big trouble and learns a lot about tourist behavior, but most of all he...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary: - Author:Becker, HelaineSummary:
In this picture book, two young children discover that reading can be enjoyed anywhere and everywhere. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Odor, JasminaSummary:
Jasmina Odor’s rich writing invites us to step into the shoes of Croatian immigrants living in Canada, and the Croatian soldiers and families who remain behind. Each passionate story in this collection varies in perspective, and yet all...
- Author:Harris, DougSummary:
Winner, Quiddity Award for Best Book Trailer. Shortlisted, Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and QWF First Book Prize. You're the kind of guy who falls in love after one date. Marginalized and alienated, perennial fuck-up Lee...
- Author:Fitzpatrick, JamieSummary:
Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him, his father, a local DJ, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter's attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek's half-...
- Author:Blodgett, AstridSummary:
Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters...
- Author:Gray Smith, MoniqueSummary:
An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Gray Smith, MoniqueSummary:
An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support.
- Author:Marsh, CharisSummary:
As the second semester at the Vancouver International Ballet Academy approaches, how will four maturing dancers face the new challenges that await them? The Vancouver International Ballet Academy has opened its doors after the winter...
- Author:Sher, EmilSummary:
T-- is used to getting grief. He gets it from his mom, who blames herself for his accident years earlier. He gets it from Mr. Lam, who suspects every kid of stealing from his shop. Worst of all, he gets it from Joined at the Hip, a trio...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
First published in 1935, Young Renny takes us even further back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice...
- Author:Hasiuk, BrendaSummary:
Faye is the "good" adopted Chinese daughter. Bev is the wild child. Mannie is the unambitious stoner. What brings them together--and tears them apart--is a need to move beyond the clichés and commit to something--anything--that will...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle of it all, little Jimmy...
- Author:Walsh, AnnSummary:
Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind. While she is in the peaceful graveyard of nearby Barkerville she...
- Author:Krumm, StanSummary:
In 1864, headstrong Pinkerton man Zachary Beddoes is tired of guarding hotels and railway stations, so he decides to quit his life of private law-enforcement and head west for gold. In San Francisco, Zachary hears that the best...
- Author:Krumm, StanSummary:
Zachary's Horses picks up where Zachary’s Gold left off and continues the adventures of Zachary Beddoes. It is 1870, and the ex-lawman is hiding out in the capital of colonial British Columbia, using the name Lincoln Zachary. He soon...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Deux hommes que tout oppose, en apparence du moins. Dans le coin gauche, Roy Berthiaume, un malabar fraîchement sorti de prison après avoir purgé sa peine pour un crime qu’il n’a cessé de nier. Dans le coin droit, Bernard Telmosse,...
- Author:Mattich, AlenSummary:
Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della Torre has been working both sides of the law — but somewhere along the way he's crossed the line. When a corrupt cop called...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
Fiona Lychenko, now a woman in her late sixties, has spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered at the age of twenty. Determined to solve the crime, something the police weren’...
- Author:Butcher, KristenSummary:
Zee and his friends are angry that their old haunt has been replaced by stores that are off-limits to them and storekeepers who treat them with distrust. To let the merchants know what he and his friends think, Zee paints graffiti on...
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