What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Born and raised on a remote British Columbia...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Bowers, CedarSummary: - Author:Ross, JeffSummary:
In this short novel for middle readers, Will discovers that while he has the talent required for a career as a classical violinist, stage fright threatens to destroy his dream.
- Author:Dunn, Claire RossSummary:
At Last Count is a novel that flips between the protagonist's broadly appealing coming-of-age journey and her complicated inner adult world as a woman living with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Author:Jones, KariSummary:
In this novel for teen readers, best friends Maddie and Ivan struggle to cope with Ivan's father's alcoholism.
- Author:Osburn, ChazSummary:
A fierce predator. A determined young officer...An incredible plan to change the course of WWII...As Germany's U-boat wolf packs prey mercilessly on Allied convoys, Winston Churchill and his military advisors realize that if they don't...
- Author:Altrows, RonaSummary:
Alarmed that Canada Post keeps losing money, Ariadne Jensen, a woman in her fifties, pitches the CEO with a scheme to save the corporation: she will get people to start writing and mailing letters again. As an inspiration to others,...
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
- Author:Kleinhuis, HarrySummary:
Jack is 14 going on 15. For the past seven years, he and his younger brother and sister, and his mother and father, have lived in a remote cabin on the Athabasca River west of Edmonton. It's the late 1930s, and the river is almost...
- Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900...
- Author:Macdonald, EdSummary:
Atomic Storybook is a novel about a young painter named Owen who is regularly abducted by beings he calls “the space pricks.” These otherworldly visitors perform experiments on him, befuddle him with an absurd riddle about the moon, and...
- Author:Soucy, Gaétan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends....
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, then Harry stumbles across a ring. He discovers the ring gives him different powers every day. Harry and the gang learn that the ring can be traced...
- Author:Grisé, Martial, Pepin, MaryseSummary:
Sur l’île d’Arisan, les Gardiens de Lönnar protègent La Source et leur colonie contre des voisins envahisseurs. La druidesse Miriel, ses amis Arafinway l’éclaireur elfique et Marack fils de Marack le guerrier viking, poursuivent leur...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
When Cassie comes to Vancouver from Australia for an intensive summer program at a prestigious ballet school, she finds it hard to fit in. A clique of girls who have been at the school a long time don't want the newcomers to get any...
- Author:Duff, MichelineSummary:
À l'âge des amours, Anne, Marguerite et Camille s'emploient à se bâtir une place au soleil à Lowell, Massachusetts, en dépit des erreurs de Joseph. Pour quelle raison le destin amènera-t-il l'une d'elles à quitter les États-Unis? Et le...
- Author:Duff, MichelineSummary:
À l'hiver 1889, Marguerite revient à Montréal tandis que sa sœur Anne préfère demeurer à Lowell auprès de sa famille. Quant à Camille, elle connaîtra plutôt l'instabilité et les mésaventures avant que l'horizon ne s'éclaircisse pour...
- Author:Lorrain, FranceSummary:
Au chant des marées, c'est l'histoire de Marjolaine et de Philippe, qui héritent d'une maison sur l'Île Verte au printemps 1980. Soucieux de fuir certains événements douloureux du passé, le jeune couple déménage sur ce territoire isolé...
- Author:Giguère, DianeSummary:
Qui n’a pas rêvé de posséder une maison à la campagne et de vivre en harmonie avec la nature ?
C’est dans cette atmosphère de dépaysement utopique que le destin des personnages de ce roman, qui n’est pas sans cruauté, se croisent...
- Author:Sicard, L.P.Summary:
«Ce qui nous effraie tant de la folie est que nous la savons en nous.» Philippe Durand est invité au luxueux Manoir des Cimes, fidèle reconstruction d'un bâtiment bicentenaire, de même que sept autres convives. Leur séjour ne...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
Lorsque le directeur de l'école annonce une nouvelle politique relative aux uniformes, les amis d'Ian font pression sur lui pour qu'il s'y oppose. Sa meilleure amie Julia l'incite fortement à protester, mais le directeur est également...
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