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The Garneau block
By Todd Babiak. 2006
Meet the endearing but flawed residents of an Edmonton cul-de-sac, just after the scandalous death of a neighbour and the…
sudden news that their land is about to be repossessed by the university. When mysterious signs begin to appear saying LET'S FIX IT, the block - including a sacked university professor, a once-ambitious, pregnant haiku expert living in her parents' basement, and a quiet but polite stranger - is galvanized in a wild attempt to save their homes. c2006.The gates of the sun
By Sharon Butala. 1986
The horseman's graves: a novel
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.The diviners
By Margaret Laurence. 1974
The troubled journey of a prairie novelist from the social cruelty of her village to a modicum of personal serenity…
and professional success. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Fiction.The chrome suite
By Sandra Birdsell. 1992
Set in Manitoba, this emotionally-charged story reaches back nearly four decades into the life of present-day scriptwriter Amy Barber. Now…
in her forties, Amy begins to remember her past in vivid and haunting ways. As she travels to Toronto with her Polish lover, a parallel with this past begins to emerge. 1992.The book of Stanley
By Todd Babiak. 2007
Stanley Moss is a retired florist, stricken with cancer, and living quietly with his wife Frieda in Edmonton. One day,…
Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then discovers that he has the strength of ten men, can read minds and fulfill people's dreams - and his illness has vanished. He and his disciples start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join, but when the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Some descriptions of violence and sex. Some strong language. c2007.Swimming into darkness
By Gail Helgason. 2001
Stain of the berry: a Russell Quant mystery (A Russell Quant mystery)
By Anthony Bidulka. 2006
Private detective Russell Quant is asked by the family of a suicide victim to uncover the real cause of death.…
He works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of victims growing, and the trail of fear connects him to a vast landscape of people, including an elegant potash miner, dubious trailer park denizens, reticent farm folk, and the Pink Gopher choir. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2006. (A Russell Quant mystery)Stolen
By Annette Lapointe. 2006
Loner Rowan Friesen has made a career in Saskatoon of drug-dealing and theft. A self-taught science geek, he was raised…
by back-to-the-land parents until his father became schizophrenic and his mother followed her own path toward selfhood. Eventually finding friendship and even love within the university community, Rowan moves toward making a reluctant peace with all those who made him angry. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2006.Scattered bones
By Maggie Siggins. 2016
A story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the…
1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the construction of a residential school, and ancient acts of violent vengeance are shaping the trajectory of events in the town 200 years later. The conflicts between Aboriginals and settlers, Protestants and Catholics, young and old, traditional and progressive, material and spiritual, all shape life in the little Northern community. 2016.Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Seasons of bliss (Saskatchewan saga. #4.)
By Ruth Glover. 2002
Arriving in the Canadian frontier settlement of Bliss, Tieney Caulder is stunned to find sweetheart Robert Dunbar engaged to another…
woman. Sent to the New World by his father to stake a claim for the family, Robert has now promised to marry a dying widow. As Tierney and Robert struggle, the continuing romance between Molly Morrison and the Reverend Parker Jones reaches a conclusion. Sequel to "Journey to Bliss" (DC31009). Followed by "Bittersweet Bliss" (DC33779). c2002. (Saskatchewan saga ; 4)Robbiestime
By Donald Percy Dickinson. 2000
It is 1958 in the tourist outpost of Wasagam, Saskatchewan. Robbie Hendershot, the eleven-year-old son of a World War II…
rear gunner and his British war bride, is embarking on a summer that will change his outlook on life forever. When his British granddad takes his mother and younger brother back to England, he is left behind to uncover the mysteries of family, religion, friendship and the price of war. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. c2000.Real life: short stories
By Sharon Butala. 2002
In these short stories, Butala introduces the reader to a number of women who are experiencing bitter difficulties - cancer,…
rape, beatings from husbands. Throughout the collection, as these women feel trapped by fate or circumstance, the question returns again and again: what is free will and what is unavoidable destiny? Is fate, as she asks in the title story, "met" or "made"? Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2002.Reading by lightning
By Joan Thomas. 2008
Lily Piper and her family believe that the Lord will pluck them from the drought-ravaged Prairie at any moment, so…
Lily tries to be ready, despite feeling that she is not the daughter her mother wants. In her teens, Lily is sent to England to care for her Grandmother, and learns to experience life in all its ambiguity while waiting for the outbreak of World War II. But then news she has been dreading arrives, and she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped. c2008.La petite poule d'eau (Compact Ser. #No. 48)
By Gabrielle Roy. 1980
La Poule d'eau est une contrée doucement sauvage située au Nord-Ouest du Manitoba. Sauvage par sa végétation et son climat,…
c'est toutefois un pays hautement humanisé, par la qualité d'amour, de solidarité et de mansuétude qui caractérise ses rares habitants. c1950, 1980.Nipsya
By Georges Bugnet. 1988
Enfermée dans un triangle sans issue, une jeune métisse s'ouvre à l'amour et à la vie au contact de Mahigan,…
un Cri. Elle connaîtra le désespoir et le désir de mourir avant de renaitre à une vie plus intense et plus authentique. 1988.Comme des loups (Terres d'Amérique #Vol. 6130389)
By Guy Vanderhaeghe, Michel Lederer. 2008
En alternance, un roman construit autour de deux histoires qui finissent par se rejoindre: celle d'un jeune garçon qui, dans…
l'Ouest canadien des années 1870, se joint à un groupe de chasseurs de loups à la pousuite d'indiens Assiniboine; et celle d'un scénariste originaire de la Saskatchewan qui, au début des années 1920, est engagé à Hollywood pour travailler à un western épique et qui part à la recherche du dernier témoin d'un drame passé. Aussi remarquablement construit qu'écrit. Prix du gouverneur général, 1996. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, quelques passages où le langage est grossier, et descriptions régulières de violence. 2008, c1996. Titre uniforme: The Englishman's boy.Jim Tweed
By John L Parr. 1978
Cool water
By Dianne Warren. 2010
Juliet, Saskatchewan. Her inhabitants include the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager…
and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2010.