Cause a "poker face" ain't just a song by Lady Gaga. Crang is a criminal lawyer. He loves jazz, old movies, Polish vodka, his Volkswagen convertible and his girlfriend Annie, not necessarily in that order. A wise-cracking WASP with a...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Batten, JackSummary: - Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent...
- Author:Anne, Li CharmaineSummary:
This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to...
- Author:Kingsmill, Suzanne F.Summary:
Fighting depression in a Toronto psychiatric ward, Cordi must throw herself back into harm's way when another patient dies. Was it murder? Struggling to escape the sticky blackness of clinical depression, zoologist Cordi O’...
- Author:Wishinsky, Frieda, Griffiths, DeanSummary:
Since discovering the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled, in Emily’s attic, Matt and Emily have met fearsome pirates in Frobisher Bay and outrun dinosaurs in the Alberta badlands. In Crazy for Gold, Emily and Matt fly to the...
- Author:Hawkins, JamesSummary:
The seventh novel in the popular Inspector Bliss series is another action-packed mystery filled with nail-biting adventures involving religious sects, criminal conspiracies, and the world trade in cocoa.When an RCMP officer is murdered...
- Author:Wouters, TeresaSummary:
Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Pâ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion...
- Author:Greenaway, R.M.Summary:
Leith and Dion are on the hunt for a different kind of murderer … and he’s a real animal. It seems the October rains have brought death and disaster to North Vancouver. A missing hiker is found by his son and daughter, a foul smell...
- Author:Leslie, MarkSummary:
A supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide. Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Leslie as he uncovers first-person accounts of ghostly happenings throughout Ottawa and the surrounding...
- Author:Maes, NicholasSummary:
Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi...
- Author:West, MartinSummary:
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) - The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his...
- Author:West, MartinSummary:
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards).
The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with...
- Author:Annie DubreuilSummary:
Six mois se sont écoulés depuis la fête de Noël riche en émotions de l'usine Jobin crèmes glacées. Bien que les rayons du soleil réchauffent les coeurs et que les délices à la vanille, à la fraise et au chocolat riment...
- Author:Annie DubreuilSummary:
Yolanda, Dominique, Louise et Annabelle travaillent dans une importante fabrique de crème glacée ; c'est tout ce qu'elles semblent avoir en commun. Alors que la saison froide s'installe, les clients troquent la glace...
- Author:Bruno JobinSummary:
Un gamin de sept ans séquestré dans une cage, une mère ado au look gothique, une copine star de cinéma, une cousine originaire de Mongolie, une sourde-muette adepte du vaudou. Au cœur du drame, un narrateur dans la vingtaine, bras...
- Author:Lewis, Naomi K.Summary:
One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine...
- Author:Campbell, MelodieSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Penny has moved with her mom and huge dog, Ollie, to live above a small-town pub owned by her aunt. It's a relief to start over in a place where no one knows her father is in prison. It's summer, and the only...
- Author:Bruno JobinSummary:
Empruntez les sombres dédales de ce labyrinthe où serpentent le mensonge, l'imposture, la manipulation, le chantage, la trahison, l'injustice, et vous verrez quels châtiments seuls des êtres humains sont capables d'...
- Author:Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:
The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read,...
- Author:Charles, NormaSummary:
Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea. Starting her new classes at the new French school in British Columbia, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up...
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