Piano tuner and jazz musician Frank Ryan is in Japan teaching bored housewives how to play piano. Then he gets a gig in a trendy underground bar and ends up ensnared with a young woman with a grudge and the crime boss who owns the bar....
Canadian fiction
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Author:Harvey, BrianSummary: - Author:Harvey, BrianSummary:
Frank Ryan navigates the unfamiliar culture and structure of Tokyo.
- Author:Erikson, StevenSummary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Toll the Hounds: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 8 by Steven Erikson, read by Michael Page. In Darujhistan, the saying goes that Love and Death shall arrive together, dancing... It is summer...
- Author:McCloskey, LarrySummary:
While camping in Ontario’s Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson....
- Author:Atkinson, William IllseySummary:
The battle of Ten–Go comes to life in this reimagining of one man’s life as a naval officer
April 1945: the aftermath of the battle for Okinawa. Tommy stands on the deck of the USS Bataan, the Independence–class...
- Author:Warner, ChristopherSummary:
Eight-year-old Tommy is losing his eyesight and wants to get a guide dog, but his parents say he is too young. He then imagines what it would be like to have a variety of other animals as a guide. Includes information about CNIB Guide...
- Author:Grist, HilarySummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and two recorded songs by Hilary Grist about two siblings, Ira and Isabelle, who live in a little red house by the sea, and decide one night to escape the sound of the city's beeping cars. They...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hired to look out for Max, a troubled...
- Author:Maffini, Mary JaneSummary:
Poor Fiona Silk is broke again. Her romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house in the lovely community of St. Aubaine may be sold for unpaid taxes. But Fiona’s new agent has a planFiona can write an erotic cookbook. This...
- Author:Martini, ClemSummary:
In Too Late, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is...
- Author:Bates, Sonya SpreenSummary:
Kat is thrilled to be competing in a junior tennis championship at Melbourne Park for the first time. But things are off to a horrible start. Her doubles partner, Miri, is sneaking around at night and asking Kat to cover for her. She's...
- Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score. When he is torn away from his native soil and sent to live...
- Author:Bowman, PatrickSummary:
Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the...
- Author:Ryan, TomSummary:
Neil plays guitar with his family's band, the Family McClintock, even though he can't stand the Celtic music they play, he doesn't dance, he hates the outfits, and every single performance reminds him that he isn't as talented as the...
- Author:Maruno, JenniferSummary:
Jonny must travel to the distant past to understand the present. As an orphaned white boy in a school full of Native students, fourteen-year-old Jonny Joe isn’t like any of the others at the island Redemption Residential School off the...
- Author:Gorham, VivienSummary:
When thirteen-year-old Jamie Francis's parents divorced, she and her mother moved from Halifax to the small town of River Bend, Nova Scotia. Jamie doesn't have any friends and isn't sure how she'll ever make any, when she comes across a...
- Author:Huser, GlenSummary:
Cosmo the clown is the first bit of light to come into Barbara's life in a long time. At home, she takes care of her abusive father, her grandmother, and Livvy, her sick sister. Cosmo encourages Barbara to join a teen clown workshop he...
- Author:Boulay, Étienne, Marleau, PatrickSummary:
Zakary Duclair, porteur de ballon vedette des Pékans de Rimouski, entame sa deuxième saison de football collégial avec optimisme. L'an dernier, après plusieurs saisons de misère, le nouvel entraîneur avait réussi à réunir sa troupe...
- Author:Marleau, Patrick, Boulay, ÉtienneSummary:
Zakary Duclair emménage à Rimouski afin de poursuivre son football collégial. Joueur étoile au secondaire, il tente de s'acclimater à son nouvel environnement en tant que simple recrue. Il n'est pas facile pour le petit porteur de...
- Author:Madden, StaceySummary:
Aaron Cordic and Samantha Riske are a couple of twenty-something hypochondriacs living in east-end Toronto. While Aaron works part-time at a bathroom supply store, donning surgical masks, plastic gloves, and a backpack full of sanitary...
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