With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness. Gasparini's ability to render passion and humanity ensure a truly memorable...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Gasparini, LenSummary: - Author:Giuliano, DavidSummary:
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and collateral - inflicted by Rupert Churley, who preyed on boys in Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated town in northern Ontario. The suicides...
- Author:Scott, PaddySummary:
Huckleberry Finn meets The Catcher in the Rye meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this outlandish debut novel. Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary. By day's end, as Kaspar is being loaded into an ambulance...
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her whatever the cost. But when you're...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne's life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of...
- Author:Egan, CatherineSummary:
Eliza, is growing in her magical powers, but can she learn quickly enough to stop the horrid Kwellrahg from killing her mother?
Eliza, now fourteen, has been studying magic and gaining a reputation for her power. She has much yet...
- Author:Armstrong, KelleySummary:
In this paranormal YA thriller, Tess embarks on a quest to find out the truth about her parents and realizes that she possesses unusual powers that link her to the past.
- Author:Parisien, CherylSummary:
Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life. In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis...
- Author:Bow, JamesSummary:
Presenting the three titles in the Unwritten fantasy series. This series sends friends Rosemary and Peter on magical and time-travelling adventures. In The Unwritten Girl, they find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary...
- Author:Bow, JamesSummary:
Rosemary Watson lives in the small town of Clarksbury, where news travels fast and gossip sticks around. Years before, her brother Theo suffered a nervous breakdown, and Rosemary, now entering junior high, is constantly teased about it...
- Author:Coupland, DouglasSummary:
The fourteen stories in this collection present the essence of Vancouver as captured by some of Canada's most famous writers, including Pauline Johnson, Douglas Coupland, Alice Munro, Timother Taylor, and Wayson Choy.
- Author:Bushkowsky, AaronSummary:
The Vanishing Man is a collection of linked short stories about a man trying to come to terms with his past, a religious upbringing, in an ever-changing personal world that constantly throws him into self-doubt. He marries, finds...
- Author:Legault, StephenSummary:
When his best friend, and advocate for the homeless, Denman Scott asks him to help stop the demolition of the Lucky Strike—a once majestic hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that is now home to nearly three hundred of the city's...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Chloë left her whole life back in Montreal, including her mom and her best friend. Now she's stuck in Victoria with her dad and her estranged grandfather, Uli, who recently had a stroke. When Chloë agrees to...
- Author:Bush, MaureenSummary:
It's Halloween, and Josh and Maddy are all ready to go out trick-or-treating. But the arrival of their otter-people friends with an urgent message from Keeper the Giant changes everything.
Returning to the magical world, Josh and...
- Author:Whellams, DavidSummary:
The fast-paced third volume in the series
Peter Cammon, now retired from New Scotland Yard, is drawn into a confrontation with evil in a most unlikely setting. The former chief inspector finds himself in...
- Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or...
- Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic...
- Author:Stibbards, Shawn CurtisSummary:
Listless, bored, alienated, and mistrustful, Trace Patterson has finished his first year of university and is living with a drunken aunt in North Van. He divides his nights between slasher films and high school house parties. When two...
- Author:Hull, MaureenSummary:
A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in a tuberculosis sanatorium with only her journal and the odd cigarette to keep her sane. Her twisted sense of humour helps her deal with invasive medical procedures, oversensitive friends, and...
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