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Lunny has written an interesting biography about her father Andrew David Cruickshank, a well-known bush pilot who died in 1932…
at age 34 in Canadian Airways' first fatal air crash. Cruickshank opened the aviation frontier to the Canadian north. The book is based on extracts from Cruickshank's letters to his family. 1992.
Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…
of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.
Hahn takes the readers with her as she kayaks the 150 miles from Alaska to Washington State, with descriptions of…
pristine scenery and sometimes terrifying encounters with animals. She meets interesting people along the way and finds a sense of peace within herself. 2001.
Ninety years old and bedridden with a degenerative disease, Rachel Matson nonetheless uses her keen mind to resolve a long-standing…
mystery concerning her late husband. Her background as a photographer helps her conduct her search, which focuses on antique dueling pistols. She relies on her nurse and daughter to do the legwork. 1999.
When Stuart Brannon finally returns to his ranch, the Triple B, he finds it occupied by Earl Howland, representing the…
Casa Verde Land Corporation. But it's Earl's buddies Stuart has to fight to reclaim his home. Fortunately he receives some reinforcements of his own, including Harriet Reed. 1993.
Alone and bored in the house, Spider logs onto the Internet and discovers she can invent a whole new identity…
for herself. The new personality seems like an improvement on her old self and she suddenly finds herself to be popular with net friends like she could never be in real life. Eventually, she realizes she's in over her head and what she really needs are real friends. Grades 5-8. 1998. (Northern lights young novels)
When the wife of Warren Thouless, recently retired teacher and long-retired actor, leaves him to go on a spiritual quest…
to India, he lets Tessa, a former student, talk him into buying a deconsecrated church to turn it into a theatre. Alone in a basement room, trying to understand his life, he delivers a long comic monologue to an audience of one. But gradually, his life changes - he begins to revive his acting career, and the gods - and astonishing possibilities - hover. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2007.
A collection of stories that seem to be searching for justice. Includes stories about such characters as Lyle Margoulis, a…
man who is prompted to resume to search for his missing grandson after finding a body in a ravine; and a young woman who likes to punch people on the nose who learns that the man she admires spends time with her only because they live in isolated Labrador. 2004.
Explores Canada's rich and evolving culinary landscape. From oceans to prairie, from bakeapples to fiddleheads, from maple syrup to k'aaw,…
from the height of urban dining to picnics in parks, the author describes a delicious and emerging mélange representing the multifaceted nature of Canada. 2016.
This collection of essays reflects Frye's personal views and the experiences in his life which fostered them. The essays are…
divided into three sections: Contexts of literature; Mythological universe; and Four poets, which are studies of John Milton, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Wallace Stevens.
Spud witnesses a gang shooting near Rocco's Cafe in Ottawa. He hesitates in relaying the information to Detective Kennedy, since…
it could endanger his friend Connie, as well as himself. Spud and his best friend Dink the Thinker now have more to contemplate than just the meaning of the universe. Grades 4-7. c1995.
Collection of nine short stories takes the reader into an alternate universe of the mind. In "The Night of the…
Pomegranate," Harriet spends too much time outside looking at Mars instead of working on her solar system project. "The Hope Bakery" tells the tale of Sloane and his younger brother, Todd, and their strange trips into the woods. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1993.
A Los Angeles family, weary of city living, found a satisfactory alternative in northern British Columbia. The years in the…
wilderness, highlighted by the discovery of an important jade deposit, are humourously described. c1977.
Disillusioned and apathetic after four years of college in Toronto, Mahatma Grafton returns to Winnipeg to work on a local…
newspaper. His assignments increase his economic, social and political awareness of the city and Canada. Strong language. c1992.
Charles Endicott is in St. Bart's Church when a stained glass window shatters, the pieces falling on a homeless girl…
taking shelter there. The girl, named Ambriel, has lost her memory and seems confused and frightened, and Charles feels compelled to follow her from the church the next day. As he takes his mysterious pilgrimage, each step becomes entwined with his own past - the memories of his own childhood, of his sister Emily, and of the tragedy that has shattered his family's life. For junior and senior high readers. 2001.