During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on the railroads. Among them was 36-year-old...
British Columbia--Vancouver
- Author:Hern, FrancesSummary:
- Author:Starkins, EdwardSummary:
'Who Killed Janet Smith?' examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally published in 1984, and out of print for...
- Author:Smith, Lisa AnneSummary:
On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smoldering ash. Vancouver is Ashes: The...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
You know you’re in deep water when you can’t tell cop from criminal
Rene Beckman is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki...
- Author:Smith, Monique GraySummary:
When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in...
- Author:Watada, TerrySummary:
1940s Vancouver. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building in Vancouver. The RCMP are rounding up "suspicious" young men, and fishing boats and property are soon seized from Steveston fishers;...
- Author:Irani, AnoshSummary:
FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR DRAMA. In the latest play from Governor General's Literary Award finalist Anosh Irani, we meet eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui, who lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan must conquer his fear of ghosts as his father’s gambling debts force him to dig for human bones in a graveyard and then to work as a houseboy in a haunted house. Set in Vancouver’s Chinatown The Bone...
- Author:Landry, JacquelineSummary:
Six victimes en douze mois. Des prostituées sont retrouvées sans vie sur la voie ferrée où passe le West Coast Express. Un tueur en série rôde et sème la terreur à Vancouver dans le Downtown Eastside, l’un des quartiers les plus pauvres...
- Author:Withers, PamSummary:
Owen’s plan to sail away on an adventure puts him on a collision course with some very dangerous people. When Owen’s parents leave him on his own for a week, the sixteen-year-old gets bored and hatches a crazy idea: sneak onto the...
- Author:Dyment, SKSummary:
Hilarity and queer magic realism twist the throttle when Jackie, a loner with a secret bank-robbing persona, meets Vespa: sexy, sculpture-welding artist and collector of vintage motorbikes. Still planning elaborate revenge on a New York...
- Author:MOSS, TaraSummary:
Makedde Vanderwall is a woman with a past. She is beautiful, street-smart and single, a model paying her way through a degree in forensic psychology. But behind the wit and winning smile is a woman haunted by violent nightmares and...
- Author:Donald, R. E.Summary:
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...
- 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: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...