Saul Indian Horse, who is dying in a big city hospice, embarks on a journey of imagination back through his life.
Ontario
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
- Author:Nino RicciSummary:
As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocent arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both...
- Author:JAMES, Charles C.Summary:
This paper takes the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these times. We see the trends of...
- Author:Coakley, MarkSummary:
A thoroughly researched and authoritative page-turner about this unprecedented operation — and bust
Mark Coakley lifts the veil on the riveting story of a group of criminals — Ontario police would call them “a gang with...
- Author:Beach, MegsSummary:
In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers. She spends all year looking forward to her summers spent at Go Home Lake, where she passes the days in a soaked bathing suit,...
- Author:Tsubouchi, DavidSummary:
“Gambatte” means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi’s life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of...
- Author:Strange, MarcSummary:
The forests around Dockerty, Newry County, hide many secrets.
Some were never meant to be unearthed, one is still waiting to be buried. At the edge of the woods near the Warren farm, a man hangs in a tree. Two arrows pin him to...
- 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...
- Author:Clark, RobertSummary:
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He...
- Author:Bloomfield, DacciaSummary:
A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
- Author:Curtis, SkySummary:
Everyone knows someone who has been abused by a doctor and this book, a moving true story, is about the devastating impact of sexual abuse and one woman’s steely determination to recover and find justice. Sky Curtis is a successful...
- Author:Kelly, ChristineSummary:
"We do not need care!" is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over simple care decisions--like what to eat or wear--is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many...
- Author:Lewis, Naomi K.Summary:
One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine...
- Author:Angus, CharlieSummary:
- Author:Bock, Michel, Pichette, Jean-Pierre, Laflamme, Simon, Frenette, Yves, Bénéteau, MarcelSummary:
Ce dixième volume des Cahiers Charlevoix regroupe cinq études sur l’Ontario français, qui traitent du diocèse de Sault-Sainte-Marie dans le conflit franco-irlandais entre 1904 et 1934; des perspectives amoureuses et conjugales des...
- Author:Hopkinson, NaloSummary:
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to revive old ways - farming, barter, herb lore. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient...
- Author:Tannahill, Jordan, Bowen, KirstenSummary:
Winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play of 2016Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official record...
- Author:Harpur, TomSummary:
The search for meaning in our time of change and upheaval continues unabated. Tom Harpur, the bestselling author of The Pagan Christ and Water Into Wine, has been at the forefront of this modern challenge to humankind's spiritual...
- Author:Harpur, TomSummary:
The search for meaning in our time of change and upheaval continues unabated. Tom Harpur, the bestselling author of The Pagan Christ and Water Into Wine, has been at the forefront of this modern challenge to humankind’s spiritual...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David’s only...