Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795. Resourceful and strong-willed, she survives many hardships before travelling on foot from Hudson's Bay to Fort Edmonton with native companions who show her a...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Demers, BarbaraSummary: - Author:Powell, Kerry-LeeSummary:
"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck,...
- Author:Harris, WilliamSummary:
Tu aimes les témoignages? Tu adoreras ce livre! C’est un roman basé sur une histoire vraie. Tous les gais ont une histoire intéressante à raconter au sujet de leur coming out, quand la vie les a poussés à devoir assumer leur...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
This ebook bundle offers three gritty urban tales by William Kowalski. In The Barrio Kings, Rosario Gomez struggles to stay out of the gang life that killed his brother while finishing his high school diploma and preparing for the birth...
- Author:Van Wart, DianeSummary:
Little Hare is young, and it is his first winter. He wants to learn about the things he sees in the yard, so he asks his friend, Wilson for help in identifying them.
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
- Author:DeGrace, AnneSummary:
At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. The stories of each circle around points of departure: what sets one on one's journey....
- Author:Manceau, Édouard, Quinn, SarahSummary:
Where did all these pieces of paper come from? Who do they belong to? The chicken is sure that they belong to him, but so is the fish, and so is the bird, and the snail, and the frog… Using the same small scraps of paper over and over...
- Author:Cassidy, SaraSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Liza is having trouble coping with the death of a local homeless man when she learns that her family’s apple tree will need to be chopped down. If that wasn’t enough, the new principal at school keeps blocking her...
- 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:Rondeau, IsobelSummary:
Wings Of An Angel is about the everyday life of a residential school person. The reason to wake everyday and be grateful you have the time to enjoy your life. There are reasons a person hides their memories from everyday life, but what...
- Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:
Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award. This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the...
- Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary:
In the fertile artistic milieu of 1927 Toronto ... After winning the commission to paint a war memorial mural for Christ Church Grange Park, Nora Britton is found dead on the church floor. An accidental fall from the scaffold she was...
- 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:Russell, DavidSummary:
Dissatisfied lawyer Winston Patrick leaves his first career to pursue teaching at a Vancouver high school — but he can't seem to leave the legal world behind. Deadly Lessons Winston Patrick, a successful lawyer but dissatisfied...
- Author:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSummary:
One late September day, amid the year’s first snowfall, the winter child is born. He does not breathe. His mother watches helplessly until “at least the baby uttered a first tentative croak like a frog unsure of spring’s arrival.”
... - Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Tyler is a good hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler’s life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program,...
- Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Kat and her mom haven't seen much of each other since Kat's father died last year. Her mom has taken over the family trucking business and has been away a lot. She promised that Kat could join her on her next run, a...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Keegan Bishop, championship skier, is almost injured in a dangerous trap set for one of his teammates. Snowboard tracks leading away from the trap are the only clue as to who might be responsible. Keegan teaches himself to snowboard so...
- Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:
From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring...
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