When the folk rock group Hearts of Flame broke up Ruby and the other members gravitate from Alberta to Toronto. The booming city at the end of the eighties offers all these outsiders a way to thrive. Then Ruby disappears. The police...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Govier, KatherineSummary: -
Author:Wilson, Robert CharlesSummary:Karen knows she must discover the truth about the "Grey Man" who stalked her when she was a child and now is following her son, Michael. When they travel to California to find Karen's estranged sister, Laura, they also...
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Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:Bullets squared everything. Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate. Wilson held up his end of the bargain and stayed off the grid for two years. Two years of peace until a man came calling. The man brought a gun...
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Author:Smith, VanessaSummary:Why is desire so irresistible? This is the question that faces Grace, a rebellious young dreamer who takes a long-awaited leap of faith when she meets a charismatic stranger. Told through the eyes of the central character, Grace...
- Author:Heroux, JasonSummary:
What if your best friend’s ghost was still hanging around town? What if your girlfriend mysteriously lost her voice and didn’t seem to care? What if a strangely independent pigeon started following you wherever you went? These are the...
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Author:Myers, B. R.Summary:When seventeen-year-old track and field star Jesse Collins's dreams of a full scholarship are shattered after the sudden death of her dad, she leaves home to work as a summer camp counsellor to escape the nosy stares in small town-- and...
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Author:Baggio, AllisonSummary:Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone a bit more interesting, but...
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Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:“Your life story didn’t begin with you. It reaches back to the beginning of time. You rose from the bodies of your ancestors. You’re the witness to their existence.”
There is nothing more alive than the sea, nothing more deadly...
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Author:Guenther, LisaSummary:As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a...
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On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears...
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Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets
Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling...
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Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past...
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Author:Quennec, LindaSummary:p>Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past...
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Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:A bond between a young girl and an abandoned baby encompasses eastern and western Canada, from 1890s Toronto to the Regina Cyclone.
A historical novel that chronicles the life of Gladdie McConnell and her seemingly mysterious...
- Author:Delisle, Jeanne-ManceSummary:
Les deux nouvelles de ce recueil nous entraînent sur les traces de deux prospecteurs. Jalonnant le territoire abitibien, ces titans au cœur fragile, passionnés et rebelles, martèlent la roche à la recherche de l’or et nous emportent...
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Author:Thornley, ScottSummary:Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife's grave when he's called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past...
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Author:Cronenberg, CassandraSummary:Itessa is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and as her marriage unravels we follow her in and out of denial that her marriage is over and into a world of drugs and fantasies about other men and other lives she could have lived. As...
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Author:Zener, Naomi ElanaSummary:Deathbed Dimes exposes the reality that if you can outlive your relatives, friends, and sometimes even strangers, your odds of hitting the inheritance jackpot are better than playing the lottery. Joely Zeller is a beautiful and...
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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.
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