Kat is alone with a secret she doesn?t want to keep, but can?t risk telling. A victim of longtime sexual abuse at the hands of her family?s trusted friend, Kat is torn between trying to protect herself and safeguarding her little sister...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Fluttert, PamSummary: - Author:Fallis, TerrySummary:
On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of PR is a far cry from his previous job on Parliament Hill, and before he even has time to find the washroom, David is assigned a major project: devise a...
- Author:Reich, KassSummary:
An illustrated board book with sweet hamsters that lead children through some basic and unusual opposites--an important first concept.
- Author:Spottiswoode, Amanda, March, MollySummary:
A rollicking wartime adventure on the BC coast. A lot has changed in the world since Sophie, Molly, Mark, Harriet, Leticia, and Posy’s last adventure in The Silver Lining. Now it’s 1940, and the Second World War is making life back home...
- Author:Pennie, RossSummary:
Suspense and corruption light up the third Dr. Zol Szabo offering
Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’ stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where teens are dying from...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood — playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole. The enhanced epub version, in...
- Author:Ross, JeffSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Rob is involved in a violent incident in a northern community.
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery...
- Author:Booker, JulieSummary:
Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion, and acuity. In this stunning short story collection, Julie Booker grabs the reins from writers like Lydia Millet and Miranda July and takes off at full speed,...
- Author:Bland, Douglas L.Summary:
A surprise attack on the nation’s military bases and power stations sends the Armed Forces scrambling. When impoverished, disheartened, poorly educated, but well-armed aboriginal young people find a modern revolutionary leader, they...
- Author:McCowan, PatriciaSummary:
In this novel for teens, Ellie loves musical theater and is used to getting leading roles, but after she moves to the big city, she has to share a part with a talented girl who seems determined to outshine her.
- Author:Levy, JerrySummary:
Jerry Levy’s gritty, urban tales are driven by arresting prose and engaging human drama. Urban Legend is psychologically intense with characters attempting to overcome personal loss in peculiar ways. In “Paris is a Woman” a man hopes...
- Author:Sewell, Anna MarieSummary:
What wilderness seethes beneath the skin? Knowing your wild potential, is it possible to live a life both urban and urbane? 'Urbane' continues the stories of the people, human and otherwise, we met in 'Humane', Anna Marie Sewell's best-...
- Author:McIsaac, MeaghanSummary:
Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby. But he has no family to fall back on: Urgle and Cubby live among the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit. One by one, generations of boys...
- Author:Michaels, SeanSummary:
In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love," Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first...
- Author:Akinturk, Ayse SuleSummary:
Us, Now is a collection of stories connecting Newfoundland and Labrador to the world via racialized NL Newfoundlanders. These are stories that fit George Elliot Clarke's thinking on what a truly Canadian national tale might be:...
- Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:
A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890-when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property-and whether or not it really happened. A self-help guru and his chief strategist take their most affluent and unstable...
- Author:Arbour, Marie-ChristineSummary:
Nous sommes en 1977. Il est possible de rêver de pays inconnus et de peuples authentiques aux mœurs radicalement différentes. L’exotisme vient avec sa part de mystère. À quarante ans, Leucid Roy, un citadin endurci qui travaille dans...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
"Valentine Schwartz had it all: his girlfriend was the most beautiful girl in school, he came from a rich family, and his best friend, Huddie Rosen, all but worshiped him. Although Valentine wasn't the brightest student, no one could...
- Author:Coleman, Reed FarrelSummary:
It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate...
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