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...
Road fiction
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Author:Ross, JeffSummary: - 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...
- Author:Perly, SusanSummary:
"Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat. Racing to meet her deadline, she heads to Las Vegas, where she'll capture images of men who may die the next day--and...
- Author:Trofimuk, ThomasSummary:
Doubting Yourself to the Bone is a story about the nature of grief, about what it means to be a parent in the face of great sorrow, the idea of re-invented love and hope. Set in Paris and a small town in the Canadian Rockies, the novel...
- Author:Wieler, DianaSummary:
In a shiny new pickup packed with camping equipment and guitars, and with a $5,000 debt hanging over their heads, Jens and his musician brother, Daniel, take off on an unusual kind of road trip. Little do they know that they are...
- Author:Meginnis, MikeSummary:
When the world shares the same dream of being guided to a water death by a loved one Nov. 1st, Lyd and her daughter only have a few months left to navigate a changed world and conniving father.
- Author:Coombs, Amelia DianeSummary:
Now that she's graduated high school, Florie is taking a parent-sanctioned gap year before starting college. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast's live show in California, Florie and her best friend Kacey...
- Author:Hepburn, JanetSummary:
When Lillian and Audrey hatch a plot to escape from Tranquil Meadows Nursing Home, “borrow” a car, and spend their hastily planned vacation time driving to destinations west, they aren’t fully aware of the challenges they will face. All...
- Author:Thomas, ErinSummary:
Alex wants to enter the Silver Stage magic competition, but he needs a sponsor. Jack, a veteran card wizard, is willing to take on the role, but only if Alex agrees to team up with Zoe, another young magician and Alex’s rival. Working...
- Author:Moran, Jan.Summary:
A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love. When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began...
- Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
Two English people take a road trip from an unnamed African capitol to their enclave. The further they travel, the more they cross the line separating privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
- Author:Tacon, Claire, Kyswaty, Laura, Lam, Richard, Mallozzi, Melanie, Mieli, MilesSummary:
When Henry Robinson's first daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, we find Henry working at Frankie's Funhouse, where he repairs the...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost...
- Author:Doig, IvanSummary:
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But...
- Author:Jacquot, Martine L.Summary:
En transit à Paris après un séjour à Moscou, Ève, interprète de métier, est bloquée à l’aéroport en raison du mauvais temps. Juste avant d’embarquer pour Ottawa, elle croit entendre aux nouvelles télévisées le nom d’une personne qui a...
- Author:Pierre, D. B. C.Summary:
Caught up in his decadent lifestyle, 20-something Gabriel Brockwell decides to kill himself. But before he does, he embarks on a quest for Wonderland--a bacchanal to end all bacchanals. His journey takes him around the globe, from...
- Author:Luiselli, ValeriaSummary:
From the two-time NBCC finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the Southwestern border -- an indelible journey told with...
- Author:Bassoff, Leah, DeLuca, LauraSummary:
For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river.But then the war comes. And when...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Velez, AngelaSummary:
On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco to visit Standford University, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations, uncover older sister Clara's secrets, and maybe...
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