Travel back in time to when Christmas was a simple affair: children were content to receive an apple, an orange, or a piece of barley candy in their stockings; clothes, meals, and decorations were all homemade; and it was time spent...
Prince Edward Island
-
Author:Campbell, MarleneSummary: -
Author:Read, Charles H.Summary:Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the...
-
Author:Jenkins, Glenna LandriganSummary:In Somewhere I Belong, we meet young P.J. Kavanaugh at North Boston Station. His father has died, the Depression is on, and his mother is moving them back home. They settle in, and P.J. makes new friends. But the P.E.I. winter is harsh...
-
Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores - an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill...
-
Author:Martin, FinleySummary:Not all dreams have happy endings. Sailing in Circles, Goin' Somewhere is the funny, bittersweet memoir of a Prince Edward Island man who, over seven years, builds a classic 1930s wooden sailboat and, in 2004, attempts to...
-
Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
-
Author:Rainnie, BruceSummary:With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, Bruce Rainnie has collected stories from every news, political and sports arena. He has forged a unique partnership with PEI's legendary weatherman, "Boomer" Gallant, and has worked closely...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new...
-
Author:Round, JeffreySummary:2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery--Winner
When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himself investigating more than one murder. Dan Sharp, a gay father and missing persons...
-
Author:Ledwell, PatrickSummary:No man is a Prince Edward Island. That’s a good thing, because the tiny province is eroding a metre per year. In his new collection of side-splitting essays, I am An Islander, Patrick Ledwell explores the hilarity of life viewed from...
- Author:McNally Smith, AdrianSummary:
Adrian Smith was raised in what seemed to be a very traditional, Roman Catholic upbringing. His father, Adrian Smith Sr, was very religious. He had studied to be a priest and left the seminary only 6 months before his ordination. After...
- Author:Montgomery, L M.Summary:
Emily leaves New Moon Farm to live with her stern Aunt Ruth so she can go to school in Shrewsbury, but she finds it hard to feel at home in her new surroundings
-
Author:Lockerby, EarleSummary:When the fortress of Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758, the Acadians of Prince Edward Island (then known as Île Saint-Jean) were deported, sent to an unknown land thousands of kilometres away. Shipwrecks and disease took a...
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
The Shores is celebrating a killer 200th anniversary. A skull tossed up on the beach sparks a heritage murder investigation. Meanwhile, serial widow Vera Gloom moves into the village with her three ex- husbands. Are they one big happy...
-
Author:Elliott, LorneSummary:Christian, is an eloquently wry and precocious university drop-out, who has never savoured the wonders of women or alcohol. A naturalist raised in central Canada, he arrives on PEI for a summer job in Barrisway National Park, and sets...
-
Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Sur le quai de la gare, Marilla et Matthew attendent l'orphelin qui les aidera sur leur ferme. C'est une rouquine aux yeux pétillants qui se présente... Jouir de la magie des mots, rire de ses propres défauts, s'émerveiller face à la...
-
Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:It's Christmas at The Shores. There's no snow yet, but there are so many outdoor lights that the tiny coastal village can be seen from space. Apart from Ian Simmons' place, there's only one house in the village that isn't lit up. It's...
Pages
