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His Majesty's Yankees (New Canadian library ; #133)
By Thomas H Raddall. 1942
Hetty Dorval (Laurentian library ; #6)
By Ethel Wilson. 1967
Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence…
of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. As Frankie Burnaby, the young schoolgirl Mrs. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty's story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous opponent. 1967. (Laurentian library ; 6)Galore: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2009
A portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate…
and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. The action is propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through the generations. 2009.Fairy ring
By David Homel, Martine Desjardins, Fred A Reed. 2001
In 1895, Arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder lets his house in Nova Scotia to the recently married Clara Weiss, who…
is about to become the compass of a social circle far too intimate for her own good. Meanwhile, the captain's claustrophobic ship is trapped in the polar ice. A novel of personal relations and vast desires. 2001. Uniform title: Cercle de Clara.February
By Lisa Moore. 2009
Helen is a woman shattered by the drowning death of her husband, Cal. Now in her mid-50s and reconciled to…
loneliness, Helen sews prom and wedding dresses for a living and cares for her grandchildren. After having spent half a lifetime picking up the pieces after Cal's death, she has taken the major step of renovating the house, and finds herself unexpectedly stirred by the presence of her carpenter, Barry. 2009.Evening snow will bring such peace: a novel
By David Adams Richards. 1990
Married for only 20 months, Cindi and Ivan Basterache separate after a fight. Ivan, always an outsider, feels trapped and…
powerless as others, motivated with good intentions, intervene in his life. Sequel to "Nights below Station Street". Strong language.Emily's quest (Seal books)
By L. M Montgomery. 1927
Fall on your knees
By Ann-Marie MacDonald. 1996
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary…
girls. Kathleen is a gifted singer preparing for an opera career; Frances is the bad girl, an incorrigible liar; Mercedes is an obsessive Catholic, trying to protect the flock; but it is Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. Canada Reads 2010. Co-winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.Dark jewels: a novel
By Rita Donovan. 1990
Murdoch MacFarland was broken when his first wife and eldest son died. Now he struggles against the hardship and isolation…
that exist in his second marriage. Then, like a dark jewel, a buried memory finally surfaces and speaks. 1990.Each man's son (The new Canadian library)
By Hugh MacLennan. 2003
Cape Breton Island. Dr. Daniel Ainslie yearns for a son - something he can never have. He comes to love…
young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie MacNeil and Archie, who deserted his family several years before to seek his fortune as a professional fighter. Now Archie returns, bitter and defeated, to wreak tragedy on his community. 1951.Downhill chance: A Novel
By Donna Morrissey. 2002
In pre-Confederation Newfoundland, deeply spiritual Job Gale decides to enlist during World War II, leaving behind his wife, Sare, and…
two daughters, Clair and Missy. Job returns broken, disillusioned, and bearing a dark secret, and soon dies, as does Sare. Clair leaves her childhood home to teach and start her own family, growing apart from Missy and their uncle Sim. Only Clair's daughter Hannah, who refuses to be bound by the past, can avert more tragedy and bring about the reconciliation of her family. 2002.Courage in the storm
By Thomas H Raddall. 1987
Chilcotin holiday
By Paul St. Pierre. 1984
These stories bring alive the country where St. Pierre's heart lies, and introduces a wonderful roster of the saintly rogues…
who inhabit that part of the Canadian west. First published in 1970. 1984.Cold clear morning
By Lesley Choyce. 2002
After his childhood sweetheart Laura's drug-related death, Taylor Colby returns to their Nova Scotia coastal village to live once again…
with his noble but isolated boat-builder father. His mother, who has been battling cancer, attempts to reconcile with both her husband and son whom she deserted decades earlier. 2002.Blue water: a tale of the deep-sea fishermen (Formac Fiction Treasures Ser.)
By Frederick William Wallace, Brook Taylor. 2006
First published in 1914, "Blue Water" is set in the early 1900s and traces the adventures of "Shorty" Westhaver from…
boyhood to young manhood, in the dangerous and often tragic world of the Grand Banks fishery. c2006.Best Maritime short stories
By George Peabody. 1988
Constellations (Vintage contemporaries)
By Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1988
After 15 years, Claire Saulnier returns to Nova Scotia to teach at a local college. She becomes involved with four…
people: Mariette, a disturbed teenager; Bertrand, a self-centred and reluctant teacher from Paris; a promising oboeist from Halifax; and Hector, the college janitor, a dropout from a philosophy Ph.D program. 1988.Blood ties
By David Adams Richards. 1976
The love and strength of the MacDurmot family members cannot keep the best of their young people from leaving while…
the family home falls into the hands of outsiders. Set in New Brunswick. Strong language. 1985, c1976.Cape Breton Road
By D. R MacDonald. 2000
It is the late 1970s, and nineteen-year-old Innis Corbett is deported from his home near Boston for car theft and…
returned to his mother's birthplace on Cape Breton Island to stay with his uncle Starr. Desperate to get away, Innis starts to grow a secret cash crop of marijuana and looks for a car to steal. When Starr's girlfriend comes to stay while fleeing another relationship, a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between the two men that leads ultimately to violence. 2000.At first I hope for rescue
By Holley Rubinsky. 1997
In the idyllic-looking town of Ruth, British Columbia, two lifelong friends discover incest in one of their families. While their…
lives are ripped apart, other residents of Ruth must confront their own moral dilemmas and crises. Strong language. 1997.