Sixteen-year-old Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. She struggles with the job at first but enjoys hearing the stories of the area, including the legend of a local ghost....
Canadian fiction
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Author:Butcher, KristinSummary: - Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:
Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search for a series of geocaches. At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced...
- Author:Forand, ClaudeSummary:
L’inspecteur Dubuc n’aime pas les grandes villes. Et surtout pas lorsque la meilleure amie de sa nièce Mélanie est retrouvée la gorge tranchée dans une ruelle à Toronto. Pour enquêter sur ce meurtre sordide, Dubuc fera équipe avec le...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
In Jack Hodgins’ new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island. Arvo is the main figure, a Finn who has worked in...
- Author:Andrychuk, KristinSummary:
With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Kenzie's dog is stolen by a dog-fighting operation. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
When Canada went to war with Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Canadians of Japanese descent were declared "Enemy Aliens." Without recourse of any kind, they were forced to leave their homes along with the British Columbia...
- Author:Valiquette, FranceSummary:
Mercedes, après avoir accompli la dernière promesse qu’elle avait faite à Ekis, décide d’aller s’installer en Californie, pensant pouvoir réaliser son rêve de pratiquer de la thérapie avec les chevaux. Mais le vieux chef navajo, Takoya...
- Author:Wilson, K.R.Summary:
When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for...
- Author:Siemens, J. T.Summary:
Now a fully-fledged private investigator, Sloane Donovan is bored by her latest task of keeping a debauched starlet alive and out of the headlines as she films a movie in Vancouver. When she and her partner Wayne Capson are contacted by...
- Author:Roy, Zoë S.Summary:
Amid the Cultural Revolution, Nina Huang says goodbye to her boyfriend, Dahai, who plans to join the Vietcong in the Vietnam War, and sneaks across the bay by boat to Hong Kong where she is granted political asylum in the United States...
- Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary:
In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin...
- Author:Maffini, Mary JaneSummary:
Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first six books of the Camilla MacPhee Mystery series are gathered together. Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, and her uneasy association with the...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend,...
- Author:White, ByronSummary:
Inspired by True Events
“Men who weren’t hard workers didn’t last long at the lumber woods.”
Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador have someone in their family who has worked “in the woods.” Some of these workers were...
- Author:Battle, CraigSummary:
It's a new summer at Camp Avalon--which Mack and his friends still affectionately call Camp Average. After last season's big baseball victory, camp director Winston wants to continue the winning streak. So he's launched a competitive...
- Author:Wishinsky, FriedaSummary:
In this high-interest novel for young readers, Charlotte has to find a way to stand up to bullies at summer camp without becoming a target herself.
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
It's 1943 and George and his older brother Jack are living in Whitby, Ontario. Their father is fighting World War II in Europe and their mother works in a munitions factory. One afternoon the boys stumble across Camp X, a secret...
- Author:Carpenter, J. D.Summary:
This three-book bundle presents the entire Campbell Young Mystery series, gathered together in an authoritative single volume."The dialogue makes you feel like you're in the bar eavesdropping." —Hamilton Spectator "...beautifully...
- Author:Carpenter, J.D.Summary:
This three-book bundle presents the entire Campbell Young Mystery series, gathered together in an authoritative single volume. "The dialogue makes you feel like you’re in the bar eavesdropping." – Hamilton Spectator "…...
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