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Tess's family has moved to the Prairies and are just getting by. They can't afford much coal to heat their…
home, so during the spring and summer, Tess and her brother have to collect "malongo," cow patties, to burn. They also have to deal with their haughty neighbour, Mr. Wright. Grades K-3.
After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended…
by the kindly Old Lady. He becomes educated and cultured and, upon his return to the great forest, is crowned King of the Elephants. Grades K-3. Original French edition published in 1931, first English edition 1933. Uniform title: Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.
James falls out of his Scottish immigrant family's wagon during a snowstorm on the Canadian prairie and is rescued by…
a man who identifies himself only as Louis. Waiting out the blizzard in his small cabin, the two bake gallette, as the man calls it, or bannock, as James stubbornly insists it should be called. Three days later when the weather has cleared, Louis drops the boy off near his town but refuses to go closer. James later thinks back on the incident and concludes, "Bannock or gallette, between two friends there is no difference." Grades K-3 and older readers. 2006, c2000.
Born into a Jewish-Canadian family in 1911, Sara Schiller grows up on the prairies of Saskatchewan. As she matures and…
becomes a school teacher, she struggles to understand the love and hate, intolerance and compassion that exist in her community. c1988.
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.
Western Canada, 1938. Ukrainian farmer Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family, who have been living with his sister Anna, after…
a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. Channelling the great inner power that enabled him to survive drought, starvation, war, and Stalin, Teodor farms the land and watches his family heal and strengthen. But their hopes are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband returns with a plan that threatens to take away everything they've built. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009.
In this third collection of short stories set in Hobbema, Alberta, Silas Ermineskin again relates his adventures with his friend,…
Frank Fencepost. In the title story, Frank turns a traditional gospel radio show into a comic hour in which prayers actually do come true. In "Bull," Frank outwits the Alberta Supreme Court in a case about artificial insemination. Some strong language. c1994.
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)
Two pioneer women, as different as can be. Two secrets skillfully buried, but not forgotten. Two journeys to embrace the…
bittersweet bliss of the Canadian frontier. Sequel to "Seasons of Bliss" (DC31084). Followed by "Back roads to Bliss" (DC33742). 2003. (The Saskatchewan saga ; 5).2003.
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town, visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer.…
He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. 2004.
Satire of American middle-class city life. George F. Babbitt is a successful real estate man, a regular fellow, booster, Rotarian,…
Elk, and a Republican who moulds his opinions on those of the local newspaper and believes in a sound business administration in Washington. 1998.
The story of Shane Morgan and of a stormy relationship with his father that builds to a dramatic climax at…
a local rodeo. Junior and Senior High. Followed by "Cowboys don't quit". 1984.
Portrays the life and people of a small Manitoba town during the Depression. They are seen through the eyes of…
Vanessa MaCleod, sometimes as a child, sometimes retrospectively as a grown woman. (New Canadian Library ; No. 96) 1974.
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone, a young Finnish woman in…
a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the eighteen-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. 2015.
Au commencement, il était seul dans l'île mais, peu a peu, il voit son havre de paix et de travail…
envahi par des individus loufoques. Il s'agit d'une histoire de paradis terrestre et de solitude. 1990.
On the road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal…
Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. 2000, c1957.