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  • Author:
    Soop, Alex
    Summary:

    Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism...

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    Kent, Jennifer McGrath
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    A summer hike in the New Brunswick woods turns into a nightmare when Shawn and his friends find themselves trapped by a raging forest fire. Now their only chance for survival may be the legendary White Caves...but can they find them in...

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    London, Jack
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    After nearly starving in the desolate Yukon territory, a young wolfdog pup is taken in by a group of Native Americans and must grow into a savage and independent fighter to fend off the wolves and humans who threaten his survival. A...

  • Author:
    Dance, Jennifer
    Summary:

    Short-listed for the Silver Birch Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens Award, and the MYRCA 2016 Award “With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness … and I’m deeply...

  • Author:
    Lawson, Julie
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    On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...

  • Author:
    Buday, Grant
    Summary:

    Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize.

    A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic...

  • Author:
    Spathelfer, Teoni
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    Little Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood. All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of her...

  • Author:
    Wilhelmy, Audrée
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    White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named...

  • Author:
    Delany, Vicki
    Summary:

    When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown...

  • Author:
    de la Roche, Mazo
    Summary:

    First published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoak’s love child....

  • Author:
    de la Roche, Mazo
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    Published in 1940, Whiteoak Heritage chronicles the fortunes of the Whiteoak family after the Second World War. The drama continues at Jalna when Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still...

  • Author:
    de la Roche, Mazo
    Summary:

    First published as Whiteoaks in 1929, in Whiteoaks of Jalna, the saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs. The colourful matriarch Adeline Whiteoak dies at 101. Each...

  • Author:
    Citra, Becky
    Summary:

    Robin can hardly wait for her cousin April and her Aunty Liz to come to the ranch for Christmas. When a devastating car accident sends Aunty Liz to the hospital for several months, Robin can't help but be overjoyed to learn that April...

  • Author:
    Lapointe, Annette
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    Finalist, ReLit Award. Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year (Manitoba Book Awards). Finalist, Bisexual Book Award (USA).

    Whitetail Shooting Gallery, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette...

  • Author:
    Mitchell, W. O.
    Summary:

    Available for the first time as an ebook, this illustrated edition of W.O. Mitchell's prairie classic Who Has Seen the Wind is a delight to discover again -- or for the first time.Since its publication in 1947, Who Has Seen the Wind --...

  • Author:
    Staunton, Ted
    Summary:

    Danny has survived everything life has thrown at him: being abandoned at birth, multiple abusive foster homes, life as a con man in training. But when his latest "protector" dies suddenly, Danny has to think fast or he'll be back in...

  • Author:
    Rosenbaum, Bev Katz
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    Fourteen-year-old Tanya Kofsky is invisible. She hates that no one listens to her, at home or at her new school. So as student elections get underway, Tanya starts secretly painting controversial images on the walls of the school. Soon...

  • Author:
    Goobie, Beth
    Summary:

    Kelly Paddik is locked up. Sent to a secure facility because she is a “danger to herself,” all Kelly wants is to escape. But she has been running from everybody since her father abused her and her mother stood by and let it happen. It...

  • Author:
    Ternovetsky, Pat
    Summary:

    Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a puppy? I can be fun and esciting and scary and lots of things, let me tell you my story.

  • Author:
    Tougas, Chris, Down, Christian
    Summary:

    This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Would you recognize your own bum if you didn't know it was yours? How about your dog's bum? Or your baby's bum? This vibrant hint-and-reveal board book from celebrated...

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