In the opening pages of this historical novel, sixteen-year-old Kate Harding is desperately trying to assist her mother who is about to give premature birth to a child in their home in the small colonial community of Victoria in 1861....
Historical fiction
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Author:Baugh, LeanneSummary: - Author:Alexandra, BelindaSummary:
At fourteen Simone Fleurier is sent to live a hard, impoverished life with her Aunt in Marseilles. Her dream is that one day she will be a famous singer and dancer. She discovers the local music hall and soon becomes the bright light of...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
Acclaimed novelist and literary nonfiction writer Sharon Butala's new novel is vividly filled with sodbusters and cowboys, fallen women and proper ladies, settlers and Indians. By the end of the first chapter, Sophie Hippolyte's husband...
- Author:Brissenden, Constance, Loyie, LarrySummary:
Tomma, a young Iroquois voyageur, signs his first contract with the Hudson’s Bay Company. Does his loyalty lie with the almighty Bay or with his love of freedom? For Governor George Simpson, profits always come first, but for the...
- Author:James, EloisaSummary:
Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest plan could ruin her: to join a theater act in the title role of a prince, in breeches. Viscount Greywick vows that he will keep her safe, and strikes a bargain.
- Author:James, EloisaSummary:
Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met...
- Author:Weller, LanceSummary:
Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the...
- Author:Thompson, DavidSummary:
Recapturing the experiences of naturalist and painter Robert Parker, Thompson showcases a man's battle against bloodthirsty prospectors.
- Author:Eagland, JaneSummary:
They strip her naked, of everything, undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Halla madhousethey take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still...
- Author:Weir, IanSummary:
Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Longlisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. From the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Indentured bondsman Ashton Markham was forced to wed wealthy Tory Bethany Winslow to escape the gallows. Bethany had loved Ashton from childhood, but never imagined that her bold ruse would result in their marriage. Surely such a...
- Author:Donovan, LoisSummary:
When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the...
- Author:Rosen, RenéeSummary:
With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide. The grieving relatives gather together to discuss the fate of Barcombe Hall,...
- Author:Revoyr, NinaSummary:
Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.
- Author:Greenhut, Josh, Mattick, LindsaySummary:
An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met...
- Author:Welch, JamesSummary:
A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Washington Post During his life, James...
- Author:Follett, Ken.Summary:
This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the...
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