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By Joanna Goodman. 2018
In 1950s Quebec, where the French and English barely tolerate each other, Maggie Hughes falls for the French boy next…
door. But Maggie's English father won't have any of it, and when she becomes pregnant at fifteen, he forces her to give baby Elodie up for adoption. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system, withstanding abysmal treatment until she earns her freedom at seventeen. As time passes, the stories of mother and daughter intertwine, but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must go in search of her long-lost daughter. Bestseller. 2018.By Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn. 2010
By Robert Sedlack. 2004
After Fred Pickle sustained a severe brain injury, he moved in with his Uncle Jack. Fred creates the perfect neighbourhood…
skating rink every year and the local NHL team means more to him than to the average fan. When the team's owner decides to move the team to the U.S., Fred contemplates an act of vengeance. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004.By Jacqueline Baker. 2007
Set in the farmland on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. The Schoffs are immigrant farmers fractured by the tragedy that has marked…
their son forever. Métis farmhand Lathias becomes the unofficial guardian to the boy. Both boys are drawn to young Elisabeth. When she falls into the river, no one can foresee how this event will mark everyone. 2007.By Angie Thomas. 2017
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school…
she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer - and Khalil was unarmed. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.By Yolanda Joe. 2003
Grandma Ollie calls it a bad omen when her pen runs dry as she enters granddaughter Terri’s engagement into her…
Bible. Then Terri, a successful African American attorney, learns her fiancé Derek is cheating. Ollie helps Terri choose between Derek and new love-interest Lynnwood. 2003.By Keith Lee Johnson. 2007
On the verge of signing a monster contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, all Nelson had to do was be cool…
and not mess up. But he did, suffering a career-ending knee injury playing a meaningless game of pick-up. That's something he's got to live with, so he's working hard and looking for his break. 2007.By Nicole Krauss. 2005
It has been decades since Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a book about it - at the…
tender age of 10 - and he's been in love with the same person ever since. Leo believes his book is lost to time, but what he doesn't know is, not only has it survived 60 years without him, it has also been an inspiration to others. Fourteen-year-old Alma was even named for a character from the book. When she realizes how deeply the story touched her lonely mother, she embarks upon a search for answers. 2005.By Kate Hilton. 2013
Sophie Whelan is the epitome of the modern superwoman. When she operates at peak performance, she can cajole balky employees,…
soothe her cranky children, and throw a dinner party for ten — all in the same day. But as Sophie’s fortieth birthday looms, her seamless life reveals disturbing fractures. Conflict with her boss, growing jealousy of her husband’s femme fatale business partner and her feelings of inadequacy as a mother are cracking the edifice of her life. Rescue may be at hand when Lillian Parker, a wealthy widow who befriended Sophie during her university days, makes Sophie an irresistible offer. Why, then, does Sophie hesitate? The answer is the reappearance of Lillian’s nephew, Will Shannon, the great unresolved love of Sophie’s life. As she remembers the drama of their college romance, Sophie confronts the choices she has made in life and looks for the one answer that has always eluded her: what does she really want? Bestseller. 2013.By Tanya Huff. 2009
Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant…
Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios. Sequel to "The better part of valor", followed by "Valor's trial". 2009.By Marian Engel. 1970
The chronicle of one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-30's, who is torn between…
affection for her family and the need for a life in which inpulse and intelligence have a place. 1970.By Merilyn Simonds. 2004
Alyson Thomson and Walker move to a farm where the isolation, coupled with the death of their infant daughter, leads…
to tension and conflicts. One day Alyson discovers a journal from a woman who lived on the farm one hundred years earlier, and who shared many of Alyson's problems. 2004.By Jack Hodgins. 1987
Jeffrey Crane, a 66-year-old retired art teacher and critic living in Zurich, returns to his home on Vancouver Island in…
a confused attempt to revitalize the present by redeeming the past. 1987.By Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn. 1997
In 1777, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Olcott is thrown into the turmoil of the American Revolutionary War when her cousin Gideon is…
hanged as a British spy. When she finds a secret message from Gideon, containing the names of Loyalist families to be protected by British soldiers, she must deliver it to the British general at Fort Ticonderoga. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1997.By Bill Freeman. 1984
Meg and Jamie search for work in Toronto to help support their family in Ottawa. Jamie, forced to join a…
theft ring, is caught by the police. To avoid prison, he must find the loot that has been stashed. Sequel to "Trouble at Lachine Mill". Followed by "Danger on the tracks". Grades 5-8. 1984.By Joan Clark. 1981
By Margaret Atwood. 1985
Futuristic novel set in a society that has reverted to the repressive intolerance of the original puritans. Offred, the handmaid…
whose job is to function as surrogate mother to the sterile marriage of an elderly leader, longs to escape. Canada Reads 2002. Runner-up to the CNIB Talking Book for the Year Award. Nominated for the Booker Prize. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Some strong language. 1985.By Makeda Silvera. 2002
When Maria Galloway dies, she leaves everything to her spoiled, wayward grandson, Vittorio. Her only granddaughter, Molly, whom she raised…
from infancy, is left to confront the unyielding bitterness Maria harboured against her. As Molly begins to trace the complex interrelationships in her loving but divided family, she recalls her idyllic childhood, spent in her grandmother's sky-blue house in Jamaica. 2002.By Beth Powning. 2004
Fifty-two year-old Kate is about to face her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children are…
all grown up and have moved away, leaving her alone in her New Brunswick home. When Kate's sister gives her a collection of hatboxes containing letters from her grandparents' home, she begins to dream of her childhood. But as she reads the letters, she learns a tragic truth about her family's past. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2004.By Howard A Norman. 2002
When Peter Duvett accepts a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, his life changes drastically. After…
a strenuous journey, Peter arrives in Churchill on the very night of his employer's wedding only to fall under the spell of Vienna's brilliant and beautiful wife, Kala Murie. 2002.