A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street in Halifax. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins--hired to represent the victims' families--...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary: - Author:Kowalski, William, Wright, BradenSummary:
Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend...
- Author:Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk, Krykorka, VladyanaSummary:
Life in the high Arctic is beautifully captured in this classic picture book, read aloud in digital form by award-winning Inuit author Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak. The year is 1955 and Arvaarluk and his friends watch as Rocky Parsons...
- Author:Weinzweig, HelenSummary:
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence...
- Author:Royer, LouiseSummary:
Après avoir réussi à échapper aux agents de la CIA dans «Culotte et redingote au 21e siècle», Sophie et François vivent une vie de famille rangée avec leur petit bébé. Mais cette routine sera vite perturbée par la visite de Mike, un des...
- Author:Arnold, Elana K.Summary:
Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat) has been the caretaker for Thor, the best skunk kit in the world... but the last day of third grade is quickly approaching, and Thor is almost ready to be released into the wild. The end of school...
- Author:Withrow, SarahSummary:
Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
In this early chapter book, Nathan learns to care for seven orphaned baby squirrels with help from a stray neighborhood cat.
- Author:McDowell, PamelaSummary:
In this early chapter book, Cricket and her friends rally the town of Pincher Creek to save migrating bats being killed by newly installed wind turbines.
- Author:Bayle, B.J.Summary:
Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle...
- Author:Denman, K. L., Productions, IambicSummary:
Jay, Kelvin and Cia are the Lunar Ticks, a dedicated band who are convinced they are on the way up. They want to win an upcoming battle of the bands where the first prize is a full day in a recording studio. Jay is struggling to write...
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium...
- Author:Gauthier, EvelyneSummary:
Quand Ariel se voit confier une mission dans laquelle elle doit infiltrer le plateau de tournage de la populaire émission Maïka : une vie secrète et compliquée, elle croit rêver. Côtoyer les acteurs de la série télévisée préférée de sa...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
One summer will change everything. For as long as she can remember, Maisie has spent her summers on Kingfisher Island. She and her beloved cousin Una run wild, and Maisie feels the warm embrace of her big, extended family. This summer...
- Author:Elmquist, LaurieSummary:
A poetic board book that gently reassures baby that all the treasures found at the beach will be there tomorrow.
- Author:Reynolds, JohnSummary:
After serving two years in prison for breaking the neck of the man who assaulted his sister, Arden is released on bail. He lands a job working at Tuffy’s, a restaurant and bar on the beach strip, alongside his former cellmate, Slip...
- Author:Bossley, MicheleSummary:
While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the...
- Author:Demuth, VivianSummary:
Johanna Bergen is a park warden in a Rocky Mountain National Park whose time is spent on such tasks as bear patrol, locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger and policing park rules. She has a particular affinity for...
- Author:Daniels, CarolSummary:
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy was adopted by a Ukrainian family and grew...
- Author:Martel, YannSummary:
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a...
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