Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It’s the fateful...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary: - Author:Jackson, MelanieSummary:
After a hang glider crashes into the pool of the house where Dinah and Madge are house-sitting, the hapless pilot creates more than a splash of suspicion in Dinah’s mind. Why does this itchy intruder make off with Dinah’s inflatable...
- Author:Levy, JoanneSummary:
In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself.
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series-and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town -set along Canada's Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver,...
- Author:Cotter, CharisSummary:
In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover...
- Author:Pick, AlisonSummary:
A realistic portrayal of the world of urban twenty-somethings, The Sweet Edge tells the story of a young couple who decide to go their own way for the summer in order to figure out their relationship. Ellen chooses to work in a trendy...
- Author:Mah, MelanieSummary:
Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse, whereby she and her siblings will each die at age eighteen when they leave their small hometown. Three...
- Author:Martin, C. K. KellySummary:
Losing weight over the summer gains Serena some popularity, but it also means discovering first-hand the pains of being a 15-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women. After narrowly avoiding exploitation in a...
- Author:Glickman, SusanSummary:
The year is 1738. Jacques Lafargue, a wide-eyed young Frenchman, arrives in New France aboard the Saint Michel. But before his Canadian adventure has a chance to begin, he is detained at Quebec harbour by suspicious port officials....
- Author:Weedmark, DavidSummary:
Anger is simmering under the bucolic facade of Tanglewood vineyard… All Ben Taylor wants is to get away from the police force where he worked undercover for years. The RCMP has cleared his name in an Ottawa shooting, but that hasn’t...
- Author:Narsimhan, MahtabSummary:
This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the acclaimed Tara Trilogy, winner of the Silver Birch Award. Based in Indian mythology and culture, these novels follow Tara and her brother Suraj as she encounters such figures...
- Author:Scott, BarbaraSummary:
A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena...
- Author:Polak, MoniqueSummary:
It is 1945, and thirteen-year-old Gwen has been a prisoner at the Weihsien Internment Camp in northern China for nearly two and a half years. Gwen is one of 140 children who were enrolled at a boarding school in Chefoo when the Japanese...
- Author:Degan, AliceSummary:
On a back alley in Toronto’s Kensington Market, above the Heaven and Earth Bakery, there’s an apartment with a room for rent. The rent is negotiable. The location varies. Humans need not apply. For Nick, who calls 7C home, real life can...
- Author:Giangrande, CaroleSummary:
Matthew Reilly is a lonely priest haunted by secrets. Young Alison is the shy and devoted keeper of Daisy, a falcon that suffered an accident and can no longer fly. When they meet in a Boston parish, Matt tells Alison about the day a...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic;and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's...
- Author:Robertson, David A.Summary:
A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land. When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to...
- Author:Kadarusman MichelleSummary:
"Hummingbirds and angels don't need two good feet. They have wings." That's what Alba's mother always says. Of course, Alba doesn't have wings or two good feet: she has Cleo. Cleo is the name Alba has given to her left foot, which was...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of illegal immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out...
- Author:Wilson, John, Yao, XiaomingSummary:
The Third Act deals with the intercultural struggles faced by Chinese students studying in North America in the present day and by an American playwright, Neil Peterson, caught up in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. The contemporary story...
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