An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013. Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family’s wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and...
Families
- Author:Eddie, ChristineSummary:
- Author:Koch, HermanSummary:
Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
A magnificent 150-year saga of a musical Southern family featuring barn dances, medicine shows, the Grand Ole Opry, and the evolution of country music from hymns to rockabilly.
- Author:Morrissey, DonnaSummary:
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-...
- Author:Herron, RachaelSummary:
From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a book too delightful to put down:The saloon had always looked old-fashioned, but now it resembled a set in a ghost town. The problem was that Adele wasn't in an old western, or a...
- Author:Rakha, NaseemSummary:
Irene and Nate embark on a new life in Oregon with their two children, Bliss and Shep. But shortly after their move the family is devastated when Shep is gunned down by an intruder in their home. Irene struggles through the aftermath,...
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
Weir sheds light on the scheming, backstabbing and brutality that plagued 16th-century England.
- Author:STIRLING, JessicaSummary:
World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders. But trouble is brewing behind their respectable facade. As the slump of the 1920's begins to bite on Clydeside, troubles both financial and personal...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Up to Low. Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters,...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Spud SweetgrassSpud gets angry when he sees Dumper Stubbs, a creepy delivery man, dumping oil into a storm drain and causing terrible pollution in the river. When Spud blows the whistle, he loses his job. Enlisting the help of his buddy...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under...
- Author:Stegner, WallaceSummary:
Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from place to place, seeking a living. The conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the American dream gives the book great resonance and...
- Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:
To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only...
- Author:CANFIELD, DorothySummary:
Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy....
- Author:Andersen, Marguerite, Winkler, DonaldSummary:
The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of...
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a...
- Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:
Tyson Thompson graduated high school at sixteen and left the town of Seafare, Oregon, bound for what he assumed would be bigger and better things. He soon found out the real world has teeth, and he returns to the coast with four years...
- Author:Byars, BetsySummary:
Two sisters look upon a beach vacation with their father, his woman friend, and her son, as two weeks in the wrong place with the wrong people.