"Startled, Mishbee gasped, frozen with horror. She was staring down the barrel of a musket and was familiar with the sound those weapons made. The young girl knew muskets meant death." At the beginning of the nineteenth...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Down, HeatherSummary: - Author:Easton, DonSummary:
In the tenth Jack Taggart Mystery, Taggart goes head to head with a longtime enemy who’s been eluding him for years … Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath...
- Author:Murphy, MichaelSummary:
After Morgan Wells's wife leaves him, a postcard from France arrives. It is addressed to a Morgan Wells - but not the Morgan Wells who receives it. Desperate to be led out of his despair, Morgan decides to read the postcard as a sign...
- Author:Jantunen, JohnSummary:
A chilling portrait of a family--fighting to preserve their humanity in a cruel and merciless world. The collapse of civilization has left the survivors scattered amongst a few settlements along the wilderness fringe of a land ravaged...
- Author:Wiebe, Rudy HenrySummary:
A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian...
- Author:Plett, CaseySummary:
Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In "Hazel and Christopher," two...
- Author:Kirk, HeatherSummary:
In this dark and moving young adult novel, sixteen-year-old Naomi’s best friend has moved away, and Naomi herself is starting at a new high school. Curtis, the artistic guy she likes, seems to be avoiding her, making her feel alone and...
- Author:Kaldor, Connie, Fil & JulieSummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and two recorded songs performed by Connie Kaldor. Follow a little duck from the Prairies who has a big dream: making it to New York City and doing his ducky dance on Broadway! It turns out to...
- Author:Meyer, BruceSummary:
There are unseen forces in our lives that shape who we are and what we become. How we respond to those forces determines our futures. These stories examine how characters respond to the unexpected. Do we carry our memories of the...
- Author:Mistry, RohintonSummary:
A Fine Balance is in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of...
- Author:Chisvin, HeatherSummary:
The mystery surrounding Anna Grieve and her mentally fragile older sister, Esther, begins in Russia in the 1880s. The persecution of Jews has become so vicious that the girls' mother decides to send her children to Winnipeg with...
- Author:Latulippe, MartineSummary:
Marie-Pierre vit avec Suzanne, sa mère avocate, depuis que son père les a quittées pour un autre continent. Le métier de Suzanne l’obligeant à faire de longues heures au bureau, Marie-Pierre se retrouve plus souvent qu’autrement seule à...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
Philip lives for skateboarding. School is merely the break between trying to land a difficult jump and outrunning the security guards. When he and his best friend Wally meet a professional skateboarder who videotapes himself for his...
- Author:Basilières, MichelSummary:
An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel
A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s...
- Author:Gilmore, RachnaSummary:
Nobby, short for Zenobia, meets an older girl, Zilla, when her family goes on holiday. Zilla is developmentally disabled, but much more fun than the average teenager. The friendship grows until Uncle Chad shows up. He is snooty and...
- Author:Wishinsky, Frieda, Laliberte, Louise-AndreeSummary:
Kate and Jake have always been best friends; always, that is, until Jake's cousin, Lionel, moves nearby and Jake starts spending time with him instead. Kate struggles with his abandonment and her own loneliness as she seeks new friends...
- Author:Herbert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Ages 8 to 11 years. Poppy is visiting her grandmother. Before going to bed, she sees a picture of someone who looks just like her -- Grandma's sister Daisy, who died when she was the same age as Poppy. Soon, Poppy falls asleep only to...
- Author:Fiola, Chantal, Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Métis teenager Echo Desjardins is struggling to adjust to a new school and a new home. When an ordinary history class turns extraordinary, Echo is pulled into a time-travelling adventure. Follow Echo as she experiences pivotal events...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster...
- Author:Rooke, LeonSummary:
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the...
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