I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Dunning, NormaSummary: - Author:MacDonald, Janice E.Summary:
Anxiety is the watchword at most school reunions, with side-eye comparisons of greying hair and extra pounds around the belly. Not our Randy Craig. She's more concerned with resolving a 20 year old CanLit scandal and catching a ruthless...
- Author:Carter, BrookeSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Kallie tries to get over her father's death and help her band at the same time.
- Author:Young, Robert J.Summary:
While Canadian history professor Andrew Stanhope is doing research in Paris on the German invasion of France in 1940, he stumbles upon an odd and long-lost exchange between Colonel Marius Michel, principal deputy in France's counter-...
- Author:Girard, KatherineSummary:
1996 Une jeune femme de dix-neuf ans, Audrey Bouchard, quitte sa région natale pour entamer des études supérieures à Montréal. Ce déménagement est un choc pour cette enfant unique, qui se retrouve seule et libre dans un loft en...
- Author:Wells, JeffSummary:
The life of a naive, born-again teen can sometimes seem God-awful, as Gideon discovers at Overcomer Bible Institute. Having given himself over to religion, Gideon quickly finds his newfound faith challenged by sexually aggressive women...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
A movement in the sonata form traditionally comprises thee sections -- exposition, development and recapitulation -- which explore two themes according to set key relationships. In the 1920s dancer/choreographer Martha Graham and her...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the...
- Author:Belloni, Giulia, Trevisan, MarcoSummary:
The sheep in this story is a dreamer, while her friend the wolf has a more practical disposition. One day the sheep runs to the wolf with an idea. She wants to build a flying machine! But the wolf tells her it's impossible. Eventually,...
- Author:Richard, C.B.Summary:
Äourö est la fascinante histoire d'un jeune extra-terrestre découvrant la Terre à l'époque lointaine des dinosaures. Poussé par une catastrophe naturelle à quitter le confort de sa cité sous-marine, le voilà livré à lui-même dans un...
- Author:Richard, C.B.Summary:
Après avoir quitté son univers sous-marin et foulé pour la première fois le monde terrestre, Äourö se trouve maintenant projeté au cœur d'une guerre cruelle menée par un impitoyable tyran, l'Empereur Zùharis. La suite de cette histoire...
- Author:Richard, C.B.Summary:
Quels évènements ont bien pu mener Äourö à se retrouver sur le dos d'un rapt à disputer une partie de Taï-Taï dans la grand arène d'Häd-Hëzeb, la mystérieuse Cité des Sables ? L'Atras et ses fidèles amis, Lòa et Nu'kii, ont-ils fui la...
- Author:Nicol, MikellaSummary:
A coming of age story taking place in Montreal.
- Author:Cyr, BraelynSummary:
'Apli kmuj's Journey' is a fun and easy way to teach the traditional values of the Wolastoqiyik for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children alike!
- Author:Plamondon, ÉricSummary:
In Apple S, the kaleidoscopic worldview of celebrated Québécois novelist Éric Plamondon sets its sights on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the seeds of Silicon Valley. Concluding a wide-lens journey through the American West that...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Now, after six years of retirement, Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is dragged back to court to defend an old client, Nick "the Owl" Faloon. He must nail the right suspect in a trial...
- Author:Mosionier, BeatriceSummary:
Life stories of two Métis sisters who suffer the breakdown of family relations and the injustices of the social services system. Culleton has made April Raintree the spokesperson for the Métis. April and her younger sister Cheryl, when...
- Author:Harlick, R.J.Summary:
Short-listed for the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel The sparsely populated Arctic is no stranger to murder. The fourth in the Meg Harris series follows Meg’s adventures into the Candian Arctic as she searches for the...
- Author:Schroeder, RandySummary:
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, aging punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old...
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