The heart and spirit of an indomitable people travel far in time and space … The unexpected luxury of a day spent at the home of a Hollywood star leads three old friends to share secret facets of their lives, both tragic and triumphant...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Morgan, BerniceSummary: - Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and Swap
Road rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end....
- Author:Young, Phyllis BrettSummary:
The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of...
- Author:Kaeser, MichelleSummary:
The Towers of Babylon tracks a group of hapless Millennials trying to find meaning in a world that consistently rejects them. What do you do when you have a graduate degree and are stuck working for minimum wage at a bagel shop? Or you'...
- Author:Lemelin, Roger, Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
The Town Below changed the face of Québécois literature. The Town Below takes place in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City’s Saint-Sauveur suburb. Saint-Sauveur is a parochial and provincial place where narrow piety and corruption can be...
- Author:Nason, RielSummary:
Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and Frye Academy Award. Shortlisted, CLA Young Adult Book Award, Red Maple Award, and University of Canberra Book of the Year....
- Author:Medved, MaureenSummary:
Naked under a tattered shower curtain, fifteen-year old Tracey Berkowitz has been sitting in the back of a bus for two days, looking for her brother, Sonny, who thinks he is a dog. Tracey's stories begin to twist and intertwine truth...
- Author:Stenson, FredSummary:
The Hudson's Bay Company is about to exercise its uncontested monopoly over the lands drained by Hudson Bay. The first step is to find a new source of beaver pelts and profits, and the only hope lies in the unmapped territory held...
- Author:Callaghan, JodieSummary:
A fiction picture book about residential schools. Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
A little known chapter of wartime Canada, the government maintained several German prisoner-of-war camps in Southern Alberta during World War II. Camp 133 was one of these camps. Veteran Guards were responsible for securing the...
- Author:Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, DavidSummary:
Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia -- an incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and...
- Author:Sibum, NormSummary:
A place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who live there and drink at the nearby caf' form the heart of Traymorean society. Their number includes: Eggy, red-faced, West Virginian, a veteran of Korea; Eleanor...
- Author:Yakeleya, RaymondSummary:
The Tree by the Woodpile is a story about a First Nations boy who is told an enchanting tale by his grandmother about how an old tree by the woodpile provides food and shelter for the birds and animals of the North. The story is...
- Author:Fradkin, Barbara FraserSummary:
Amanda Doucette's cross-Canada charity tour is in for a cold snap when she organizes a winter camping trip for inner-city young people in the stunning setting of the Laurentian Mountains. With a view to bridging cultural divides,...
- Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:
A winter camping trip turns deadly as two missing teenagers, a twisted love triangle, and the spectre of radicalism create turmoil in the remote Laurentian wilderness. Amanda Doucette’s cross-Canada charity tour is in for a cold snap...
- Author:Havelange, JoanSummary:
The trouble with funerals is that there are too many of them. Mabel’s mother is convinced there is something nefarious going on at the senior’s condo Gravenhurst Manor. She convinces her daughter to look into the death of her best...
- Author:Butcher, KristenSummary:
Liberty Hayes has just moved to Sutter's Crossing and is the talk of the town. She has plenty of money and everyone wants to be her friend. When Liberty accuses a male teacher of sexually assaulting her, the rumors start. Val, her new...
- Author:Livingston, BillieSummary:
If you act like Marlene, you end up like Marlene — messed up, lonely and broke. No wonder Samantha rejects her mother’s lifestyle. In The Trouble With Marlene, mother and daughter share one thing — thoughts of suicide. Marlene never...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
"My mother told me about the good old days of long ago, which she’d heard about from her own mother and grandmother, when our ancestors were rootless, roaming mongrels known as the St. John’s water dogs. That was before some Lord...
- Author:Lee, Ingrid, Denis, StephaneSummary:
George is hardly bigger than a child's middle finger. His knees and his elbows don't bend and his legs are fused together. When Katie and Mackenzie find him at the edge of the ocean, they are unimpressed, but George keeps turning up in...
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