It’s been more than eight years since ex-cop Dan Connor put a troubled criminal named Walker behind bars, and a year since he handed in his badge after losing the woman he loved. The remote islands off the Pacific Northwest coast seem...
Canadian fiction
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Author:McMillen, R.J.Summary: - Author:Chudley, RonSummary:
Elizabeth and Tom Drummond are living quietly in Mill Bay, B.C., when their tranquil existence is disrupted by a singular event: out of the ashes of 9/11, borne by a person believed long dead, come riches beyond anyone's wildest dreams...
- Author:Stevens, ChevySummary:
"Chevy Stevens is a brilliant and unique talent and Dark Roads is an instant classic. My hat's off to her." - C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Range. Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles...
- Author:Walsh, AnnSummary:
The result of a cross-Canada contest for the best short stories about young people’s experience of loss and grief, Dark Times is a superb anthology about a topic that often remains hidden but is crucial in the development of a child’s...
- Author:Solo, JamesSummary:
It never should’ve happened: in the late 1980s, a case of mistaken identity turns into a successful musician’s worst nightmare. After a brutal encounter with an out-of-control cop, drummer Adrian Lee makes his way to the wilds of Cuba...
- Author:Thompson, KimSummary:
As spring comes to Eldritch Manor, Willa deals with the King of the Fairies, a terrifying creature, and the usual family drama. Spring comes to Eldritch Manor, bringing with it all kinds of mayhem. The arrival of the King of the...
- Author:Fried, GoldaSummary:
These stories are diary shreds of young women who are in school but things happen anyway. Girls with their hears open like agar petri dishes. The setting could be Toronto, Montreal, New Orleans, a Gothic castle or a bathtub. What people...
- Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:
Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was and even less knew how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did. He worked jobs for one very bad man. Illegal jobs no one could ever know about....
- Author:Fisseha, RebeccaSummary:
Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself...
- Author:LaPorte, DanielleSummary:
1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their...
- Author:Robertson, RaySummary:
Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man by the Reverend William King, David has rebelled against his emancipator and his predestined future in the church. He's taken up residence in the nearby town of Chatham, made a living...
- Author:Poulsen, David A.Summary:
Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen "handles heavy material with sophistication" (Publishers Weekly). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and...
- Author:Ross, JeffSummary:
When Kevin disappears, leaving only a cryptic note, his best friends Luca and Esme have no choice but to try and find him. Their journey takes them to the coast of Panama, where they confront monster waves, unfriendly locals and a...
- Author:Nanayakkara, TaraSummary:
Confronted with the task of re-inventing her life, young widow Priya grieves by researching spiritualism for a new age magazine and spending time in the garden her late husband, Gabe, had tended. Human contact is limited to an elderly...
- Author:Hugelschaffer, DaveSummary:
When forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel is called in to help catch a serial arsonist who goes by the name "Lorax", he must juggle his official investigation with a personal one: the Lorax's modus operandi...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
Winner of the Silver Moonbeam Medal for Preteen Historical Fiction. It's 1912, and the lives of two children are twisted together as the Regina cyclone approaches: Ella, a well-to-do young lady, and Billy, a penniless runaway Home Child...
- Author:O'Neill, HeatherSummary:
From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he was nine and visited the pearly gates, to "The Little Wolf-...
- Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:
When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
- Author:Alexis, AndréSummary:
Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious...
- Author:Edizel, LorenSummary:
Days of Moonlight takes place mostly in Turkey between 1924 and 2010, and spans the lives of three generations who move as refugees from Crete to Izmir and finally to Toronto. The novel centres on the life and loves of Mehtap, a woman...
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