When a well respected truck driver, the owner of a family trucking business, is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment along the Coquihalla highway that winds through the mountains in British Columbia, his distraught daughter...
British Columbia--Vancouver
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
- Author:Sherwood, KateSummary:
Quinn Donahue will do anyone once, so when Aaron Miller spots Quinn making his moves in a Vancouver gay bar, Aaron thinks he's found just the guy to relieve him of his unwanted virginity. Quinn, however, has apparently decided to make...
- Author:Sherwood, KateSummary:
Quinn Donahue va ogni volta con qualcuno di diverso, perciò quando Aaron Miller lo incontra in un bar gay di Vancouver, Aaron pensa di aver trovato il ragazzo giusto per perdere quell’indesiderata verginità. Quinn però ha apparentemente...
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
A dead man rides the chairlift to the bottom of a ski hill on Whistler Mountainches Former RCMP homicide detective Hunter Rayne is at the top of the suspect list, so Hunter has no choice but to get involved in the investigation in order...
- Author:Charles, NormaSummary:
In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
A fast, powerful read full of action, twists, and dark humour Bounty Hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the hard...
- Author:Sherwood, KateSummary:
Quinn Donahue se acuesta con cualquiera por lo menos una vez, así que cuando Aaron Miller lo encuentra en un bar gay de Vancouver, piensa que es el tipo que lo liberará de su indeseada virginidad. Sin embargo, Quinn aparentemente ha...
- Author:Barnholden, Michael DornSummary:
“Reading the Riot Act” is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their “charges” are getting out of hand. The act itself is a seldom-used piece of legislation...
- Author:Blennerhassett, PatrickSummary:
A rookie novelist faces infamy and fortune when a young boy mimics the suicidal protagonist in his book. After close to five years covering trials, a court reporter suddenly finds his life entangled with the outcome of a manslaughter...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
Jeff Nichols ' a man strong of conviction but weak of character ' is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work ' any kind of work ' and a way back into Ann Ryan's good graces. She waited for his return from prison but is quickly...
- Author:Smith, Lisa Anne, Rogers, BarbaraSummary:
When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citizen of the Century.” Our Friend Joe is...
- Author:Brooks, CarellinSummary:
Did she say, at the beginning, that it rained every day? She was wrong. She misspoke. She didn’t mean it.... No. It did not rain every day. But it rained for a hundred days, that year, which was enough—more than enough, even.In prose by...
- Author:Cameron, StevieSummary:
Looks at a series of missing women cases in Vancouver in 1998, focusing on the victims' families' and friends' pleas to start criminal investigations and describing how they led to the arrest of Robert William Pickton.
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr. Au, the West Coast’s primary drug trafficker. But Cobb — under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage — has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a...
- Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary:
Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, selected for the CCBC Choices List, selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013, and honoured with the Horn Book Fanfare. It starts when Call sees...
- Author:Blennerhassett, PatrickSummary:
A penetrating and unflinching examination of the modern male, Monument is told through the eyes of Seth Wilhelm, a talented young hockey player whose career is cut short by injury, sending him spiralling out of control. A failed stint...
- Author:Buday, GrantSummary:
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award.
Monday Night Man is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent “plungers” striving for...
- Author:Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
This double edition of the Mister Jinnah Mysteries series presents Donald J. Hauka's Mister Jinnah Securities and She Demons. Hakeem Jinnah is a politically incorrect but relentless crime reporter for the Vancouver Tribune who finds...
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature series.
Set in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing. They spend...
- Author:Wallace, JessicaSummary:
Robin Kent doesn’t understand how everyone around her, including her husband, is so certain of everything. The only explanation is that they’re all following the same Guidebook—a copy of which Robin has yet to receive. When a co-worker...