Sam Sparrow was a lousy cop. He's a worse private eye. But when the magician Merlin magicks him away from Hartford Connecticut to work cases in King Arthur's Court, it may be just what Sam needs to address his trust issues while at the...
Canadian fiction
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Author:McCharles, RandySummary: - Author:Van Rooy, MichaelSummary:
Monty Haaviko, Winnipeg's favourite househusband, babysitter, and ex-con, is running for chief of Winnipeg's new police commision. It's almost honest work, except that he's been bribed to throw the election to his opponent, an ex-cop...
- Author:Poole, NathanielSummary:
A story of adventure and romance set in the wilds of Rupert’s Land in the early 19th century. When Orkneywoman Rose is shipwrecked on the shores of Rupert’s Land, she quickly falls in love with Alexander, a Half-caste man who is...
- Author:Ross, JeffSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teens, Riley learns that the color of your skin does affect how you are treated.
- Author:Priesnitz, HeidiSummary:
Sara has the perfect career: as a photographer for a glossy travel magazine, she is able to pursue her passion for photography while at the same time appeasing her mother, who wants her to have a "real job." But Sara's ideal world comes...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
The 18th installment of the bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series from the 'queen of Canadian crime fiction' (Winnipeg Free Press).When, at the age of sixty, Joanne learns that Douglas Ellard, the reserved general practitioner whom she had...
- Author:Gürth, Per-HenrikSummary:
There are so many fascinating things to do in Canada at any given moment, and Per-Henrik Gurth's A Day in Canada brings them to life in bright, bold colors. A clock on each page helps kids follow along with the time of day as beloved...
- Author:Down, HeatherSummary:
"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...
- 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...
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