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Night ambulance
By Nicholas Ruddock. 2016
Following an awkward sexual encounter under a wharf in outport Newfoundland, sixteen-year-old Rowena Savoury travels to St. John’s for a…
secret abortion. But in the early 1970s, the procedure is illegal, and after complications, Rowena finds herself in a hospital being questioned by a young constable who is uncertain of how to proceed. Though she doesn’t know it, Rowena’s decision will ripple through the lives of an entire cast of characters. 2016.La fille blanche
By Joan Clark, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2002
Une enfant flottant à travers les glaces dans son panier d'osier, survivante du Titanic, est recueillie par des pêcheurs. Ce…
récit s'intéresse au sort de la rescapée ainsi qu'à celui de plusieurs générations de membres de sa famille. Cadres successifs : Terre-Neuve, l'Angleterre et l'Irlande. 2002.Last summer in Louisbourg
By Claire Mowat. 1998
While working a summer job in the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, fifteen-year-old…
Andrea learns a family secret as well as Canadian history. For junior high readers. 1998.Caplin Scull: chronicles from a Newfoundland outport on the eve of confederation
By M. T Dohaney. 2017
Meet the unique people of Caplin Scull, a small village on Newfoundland's sea-ravaged east coast, where life is hard and…
the times are changing as the province of Newfoundland is about to join the nation of Canada. Like the houses, those who live here must be sturdy, courageous and determined, able to withstand a rugged life in a world that still keenly feels the pull of its Irish ancestors and the influence of the powerful Catholic Church. In that place of hardship there is also love, endurance, spirituality, and humour. The folks here have figured out how to cope through the wry acceptance of their lot in life: work hard, die hard, and go to hell afterward. 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.Glory
By Gillian Wigmore. 2017
In a boom town dominated by a man-eating lake, Renee and Danny Chance start a new life in his grandfather's…
cabin. Renee struggles to keep her head above water until she is drawn into the orbit of two beautifully notorious bar-singer cousins, and all three women are called to test the bonds of blood and loyalty. A polyphonic fable riddled with tall tales, "Glory" explores what it means to be a woman in north-central BC by flooding the shores of the human heart. 2017.Glass voices
By Carol Bruneau. 2007
Lucy and Harry Caines lose their house and first child in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and carve out a life…
for themselves and their second child in a survivor's village of ramshackle houses, gambling, moonshine, and illegal fishing. Fifty-two years later, with Lucy's son married to the daughter of her worst enemy and her grandson Robert quitting school to go on a hippie pilgrimage, the family is forced to work together when Harry suffers a severe stroke, and gains a new perspective on the past. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. 2007.Colin's big thing: a sequence
By Bruce Serafin. 2004
A boy's journey from Hinton, Alberta to the B.C. coast to Texas, and then the return. A coming of age…
novel that reflects Vancouver life from the 1960's to the present, complete with people and places like the eponymous comic book artist Colin Upton, to the spaceship-like Vancouver Post Office sailing through a purgatorial midnight. 2004.Hating Gladys: a novel
By Leona Gom. 2002
Gladys is vindictive, greedy, jealous, and makes life miserable for the young women who work for her in the lodge…
she runs in the Yukon in the 1960s. When Kendy and Elke head north to waitress for the summer, they fall victim to Gladys's tyranny. Thirty-five years later, Elke and Kendy are accidentally reunited in Vancouver, and find themselves seeking revenge. 2002.Just beneath my skin
By Darren Greer. 2014
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness…
begets violence, violence begets despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister’s son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father’s advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life - working a gruelling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer - does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost. c2014.Keri
By Jan Andrews. 1996
Upset that her father sold their fishing boat, and unwilling to let go of her family's traditional way of life,…
Keri retreats into fantasies about an old story of an abandoned young girl and a beached whale at Riley's Cove in 1762. When Keri and her brother find a beached whale in the cove, their struggle to save it helps her accept the changes in her family's life. Grades 5-8. 1996.January, February, June or July
By Helen Porter. 1988
This novel examines Heather Novak's relationship with her family, her peers and the young man who, as her father did…
years ago, leaves her to face alone the painful process of growing up. Some strong language. 1988 winner of the CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award. For senior high and adult readers. c1988.Catching the light
By Susan Sinnott. 2018
The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read.…
But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is confident in his plans for the future. But one icy evening his world is upended and those plans are swept away. Now he must face a different life and his own struggle. Winner of the 2014 Percy Janes First Novel Award for an unpublished manuscript. 2018.For sure
By Robert Majzels, France Daigle. 2013
"For Sure" is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a…
defense and an illustration of the Chiac (French Acadian) language. It is also the continuing story of Terry and Carmen, familiar to us from previous works, their children Etienne and Marianne, and all those who gravitate around the Babar, the local bar in Moncton - the Zablonskis, Zed, Pomme - artists and ordinary people who question their place in the world from a distinct point of view that is informed by their geography, and by their history, politics, and culture. 2013. Uniform title: Pour sûr.Anna from away: a novel
By D. R MacDonald. 2012
When Anna Starling flees a dissolving marriage in California to save herself and her artistic career in Cape Breton, her…
life intersects with that of Red Murdock, a cabinetmaker who has recently lost the great love of his life. Surrounded by old ghosts and echoes of those who once lived in this isolated, now depleted community, Anna and Murdock discover that the present is inextricably linked with the past, and that both can lead to moral dilemmas. Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.Glass boys: A Novel
By Nicole Lundrigan. 2011
When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis blames the abusive alcoholic, Eli Fagan,…
and hated grows between the two families of Knife's Point, Newfoundland. Desperate to smother the painful past with love, Lewis marries Wilda, and takes pleasure in their two children, Melvin and Toby. But as he watches his small family fracture, the darkness of the past begins to cloud the present, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan - and his watchful stepson, Garrett Glass. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2011.Down the Coaltown Road
By Sheldon Currie. 2002
During World War Two, Italy's decision to join forces with the Germans caused Canada to round up Italians and put…
them in camps. Coaltown, Cape Breton, was the location of one such camp. When one Italian man escapes the camp, his actions have far-reaching consequences, touching everyone in his life. 2002.Caged eagles
By Eric Walters. 2000
Fourteen-year-old Tadashi his family are forced to abandon their fishing village on the northwest coast of British Columbia and move…
into an internment centre in Vancouver with other Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. For Tadashi, detention becomes both an adventure and a dilemma as he struggles to understand the undercurrents of racism and injustice that have overtaken his life and those of his community. Ruth Schwartz Book Award. Sequel to "War of the eagles." Grades 5-8. 2000.Cougar Cove
By Julie Lawson. 1996
Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is not what she expected. She's teased by…
her cousins for being a "city kid", when they're not ignoring her. Then, while exploring the woods on her own, she comes face-to-face with a wild cougar and her two cubs and her summer vacation gets much more exciting. 1996.Carry tiger to mountain (An elias Mccann Mystery Ser. #2)
By Mark Zuehlke, Bob Roberts. 2002
When a freighter smuggling illegal immigrants sinks, Tofino coroner Elias McCann finds himself at the heart of a mystery. A…
relative of his girlfriend Vhanna turns up among the ship's survivors, bringing up memories of her dark past and the Khmer Rouge. Who is responsible for the immigrants' journey and what do they want with Vhanna's cousin? 2002.Hope in the desperate hour: a novel
By David Adams Richards. 1996
Richards portrays a small New Brunswick farming community from the 1950s to the present, through the experiences of the Shackle…
family. Garth, the former hockey player, Neil the academic, and Reggie the soldier reflect the conflicts between their home and the nearby Indian reserve and university town. 1988 Governor General's Award for English fiction. 1996.