In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stories take on an aura of memoir as they invite us into the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary: - Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
The High had a couple of hit songs in the late '70s and now they're back playing the nostalgia circuit at casinos. The bass player, Barry, and the lead singer, Cliff, have found a way to make the tour worthwhile: rob the drug dealers...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea travels once again to Moose Jaw, where she and her diabetic younger brother Tony soon get stuck in the perilous past in the now dangerous tunnels with Beanie, Vance and a gang of thieves.
- Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea once again travels back in time to uncover the secrets of an unsuspecting theft ring in the mysterious tunnels of Moose Jaw this time with her brother in tow.
Andrea would like to forget all about her...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Andrea Talbot doesn't want to go to Moose Jaw for her cousin Vanessa's wedding. She's going to miss a really cool bike trip and she's not taking it very well. At a family dinner party in a local restaurant, Andrea...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Andrea and her ten-year-old brother Tony are drawn into the scary underground of 1920s Moose Jaw to rescue their friends from Mean-Eyed Max and his gang.
- Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:
In this new thriller in the exciting "Moose Jaw Adventure" series from best-selling writer Mary Harelkin Bishop, Andrea Talbot takes an unwilling third trip to the spooky tunnels under Moose Jaw and uncovers the exploitation of Chinese...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Andrea Talbot and her brother Tony take one more trip through time - Back in the tunnels, they have to solve a mystery that has troubled Grandpa Vance throughout his life: How did his friend Jack die, so many decades ago? Was it an...
- Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:
Andrea Talbot and her brother Tony take one more trip through time - to find their grandfather's long-lost notebook and to help keep the Ku Klux Klan from taking root in Moose Jaw.
Andrea and Tony have no plans for another trip...
- Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Gordie Jessup is a good kid but he's living a nightmare. His eighteen-year-old brother Chase's two-year addiction to crystal meth has left their family emotionally and financially drained. And just when Gordie thinks he...
- Author:Carpenter, J.D.Summary:
"With the pace, intensity, and beauty of a thoroughbred beginning its stretch run, Twelve Trees is simply mesmerizing." – M.T. Kelly Exracetrack journalist Priam Harvey, occupant of the prized "corner stool" at...
- Author:Hedley, CaraSummary:
Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents have raised her in his skates. When Iz leaves her grandmother behind to play for the Winnipeg University Scarlets,...
- Author:Saucier, JocelyneSummary:
With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown...
- Author:Allin, LouSummary:
Holly Martin must find a dangerous sexual offender before he strikes again. Corporal Holly Martin’s small RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by a midnight attack on a woman camping alone at picturesque French Beach. Then...
- Author:Willett, EdwardSummary:
Ariane and Wally must find a way to travel to France, and go deep underground, to find the second Shard of Excalibur before Rex Major can get his hands on it.
Having saved the first Shard of the sword Excalibur from internet...
- Author:Daher, AnitaSummary:
More than anything, Nikki wants to be free – of the grief and rage that have engulfed her since her parent’s death. But as long as her brother continues to destroy himself, she will be trapped in an endless cycle of blame and pain. In...
- Author:Major, KevinSummary:
Sebastian Synard is back. It's the off-season, and the Newfoundland tour guide introduced in One for the Rock has crossed the island with his spirited teenage son for a weekend exploring the wonders of Gros Morne National Park. But on a...
- Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:
A year after her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Sidonie still spends sleepless nights playing cards with her cat, Bogie. During the day she lies around and reads under the nose of her nineteen-year-old sister, Roberta, who angrily...
- Author:Griffin, DanielSummary:
A fast-paced literary eco-thriller about the power of resistance, the fine line between activism and terrorism, and what happens when things go too far. Set in 1993 on Vancouver Island, a group of idealistic young activists, determined...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
"Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint...
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