Twelve-year-old Tabitha is less than thrilled when her parents send her on a hiking trip with her cousins, Ashley and Cedar, and her Aunt Tess. For one thing, she's not much of a hiker. And she's pretty sure her cousins hate her. But...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Leach, SaraSummary: - Author:Languedoc, ClaudetteSummary:
In August 1947, Mary Brock travelled to Northwestern Ontario to start a teaching job at an Indian residential school where she doesn't give up buoyed by her ideals and pragmatism.
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal's...
- Author:Burn, K. C.Summary:
Sequel to 'Cop Out' Detective Ivan Bekker has hit rock bottom. Not only is he recovering from a bad breakup with a cheating boyfriend, he’s also involved in a drug bust gone bad. Ivan had to kill a man, and his friend was shot and is...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book Award. In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt...
- Author:Hamelin, Louis, Murray, Jean PaulSummary:
Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles Desches, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly memory of a twelve-year-old murder....
- Author:Halvorson, MarilynSummary:
When Shane Morgan's father is late returning to their ranch in Alberta after making a delivery in Montana, Shane decides to go looking for him, even though his only vehicle is a truck in bad condition and he has no driver's...
- Author:Brett, BrianSummary:
There was a man who called himself Coyote. He blew up bridges to clearcut logging sites. He liberated zoos, and torched shopping malls in the night. Then he died, twenty years ago, in a botched factory sabotage. Or did he? A terrifying...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
<p>Coyote Columbus story: Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages. In doing so, he invites children to laugh with him at the crazy antics of Coyote, who unwittingly...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Il a douze ans, l'âge du cul-de-sac de l'enfance. Partagé entre une mère hospitalisée et un père qu'il déteste, obsédé par le Livre Guinness des records et les mystères de l'univers, il accepte sa solitude...
- Author:Bossley, MicheleSummary:
Bobsledder Josh Gantz is accused of deliberately injuring a fellow competitor and might be thrown out of the sport, right before the World Cup. His younger sister Courtney asks her friends to help clear his name. Can amateur sleuths...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
From 'the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard' (Crime Syndicate Magazine) comes a caper novel full of twists, hitmen, and loads of stolen cash. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster 'Maddog' Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci...
- Author:Kindzierski, LovernSummary:
Hope & Merritt fight their way deeper into Cradle to heal the wound that could allow the demons of hell to spew their terror into the world. Shame, trapped and broken into pieces, puts her plans to recover her powers and free...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
“Like a fine wine, the [Crang] series — and its protagonist — have aged well.” — The Toronto Star “Not to be missed.” — The Globe and Mail Jack Batten's hard-boiled Crang series returns with this four-book bundle, including the latest...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
The smart-talking, wise-cracking, jazz-loving criminal lawyer has got a taste for straight vodka and a nose for trouble. No one could ever accuse Crang of being a superhero, but with his usual mixture of innate cool and naive enthusiasm...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
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...
- 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...
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