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The architects are here
By Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.Scotch River
By Linda Little. 2006
Cass Hutt, bull rider, has lost his rodeo partner, severing Cass's only ties to his world. With nothing and no…
one to hold him, Cass is led back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2006.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.Anne d'Avonlea: roman (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; #2)
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Anne Shirley vient d'avoir seize ans. Institutrice, elle n'en demeure pas moins aussi impétueuse qu'espiègle, commentant le monde avec cette…
naïveté lucide qui la caractérise. Suite de "Anne, la maison aux pignons verts" (FD01555). Suivi de "Anne quitte son île" (FD01774). Années 5 à 8. 1988, c1909. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 2) Titre uniforme: Anne of Avonlea.Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; #1)
By L. M Montgomery. 1986
L'histoire d'une petite orpheline de Île-du-Prince-Édouard qui a envotée les jeunes et les moins jeunes. Anne, c'est cette fillette espiègle…
à la tête remplie d'idées saugrenues, qui s'émerveille face à la nature, jouie de la magie des mots, rit de ses propres défauts, nous fait découvrir un coin de pays pittoresque, et qui ne cesse de dérouter ses parents adoptifs. Années 5 à 8. Suivi de "Anne d'Avonlea". 1986. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 1) Titre uniforme: Anne of Green Gables.Anne dans sa maison de rêve: roman (Collection Littérature d'Amérique #5)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1990
Anne et Gilbert sont enfin mariés. Ils ont quitté Avonlea pour s'installer dans un village de pêcheurs où Gilbert pratique…
la médecine. Ils habitent dans la maison de rêve de l'inimitable Anne, qui connaîtra une existence parsemée d'incidents drôles, parfois tragiques, toujours émouvants. Suite de "Anne au Domaine des peupliers" (FD01753). Suivi de "Anne d'Ingleside" (FD02536). Années 4-7. 1990, c1917. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 5) Titre uniforme: Anne's house of dreams.Anne quitte son île: roman (Collection Littérature d'Amérique #3)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1988
Anne a maintenant 18 ans; après avoir enseigné à l'école d'Avonlea, elle quitte l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard pour la Nouvelle-Ecosse afin de poursuivre…
des études universitaires. L'amour se présente à Anne, mais saura-t-elle le reconnaitre? Suite de "Anne d'Avonlea" (FD01626). Suivi de "Anne dans sa maison de rêve" (FD01941). Années 4-7. 1988, c1915. (Anne -- la maison aux pignons verts ; 3) Titre uniforme: Anne of the Island.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.Make or Break Spring
By Janet McNaughton. 1998
In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe,…
the golden boy of her school, for the scholarship that bears her father's name. Although he has been missing in action for three years Evelyn clings to the hope that her father might somehow still be alive. As the war ends in Europe and her final year of high school draws to a close, her life alters in ways that will change her forever. Sequel to "Catch me once, catch me twice" (EB67373). Junior and Senior high school readers. 1998.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.Emily of New Moon (Seal books)
By L. M Montgomery. 1925
The wreckage: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2005
Newfoundland, 1940. Mercedes Parsons is only 16 when she begins an intense relationship with traveling projectionist Wish Furey. Wish enlists…
in the British Army, only to be captured by the Japanese, and Sadie settles in St. John's to wait for his return. Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter the ashes of her dead husband and collides with Wish, whom she believed dead. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2005.Alligator: A Novel
By Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.Curse of the Red Cross ring
By Earl B Pilgrim. 2000
Set in Newfoundland in 1929, Azariah Roberts is a successful fisherman and a respected father figure to the people in…
his town. There is nothing he wouldn't do for his people; when there is trouble, Uncle Az, which is known to his friends, could always set things right. But after he and his men unearth the long-dead remains of a Viking warrior, all that is about to change. 2000.The Confessions of Nipper Mooney: a novel
By Ed Kavanagh. 2001
On a beautiful morning out in the meadow, Nipper Mooney experiences both the phenomenon of lost time and the death…
of his father. Soon he is sent to All Angels, a rigid Catholic school where Nipper, a sensitive and inquisitive boy, only finds more questions. He survives this claustrophobic and often violent world by becoming a reader, a dreamer, and developing a scrappy toughness, as he journeys through the beauties and horrors of childhood. Some strong language. 2001.Sea of tranquility: a novel
By Lesley Choyce. 2003
For Sylvie, Ragged Island is the only world she has ever known, and she plans to live out her years…
there. When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down the ferry service to the island, the residents see their world beginning to disappear. Strong language. 2003.The money pit mystery
By Eric Walters. 1999
Sam and Beth accompany their mother on a visit to their grandfather's home on Oak Island. Something strange seems to…
be happening to grand-dad. Apart from losing his memory, he's also spending a lot of time on a hunt for a 200-year-old treasure. Sam is bitten by the treasure bug too, and he and the whole family set out to solve the mystery. Grades 4-7. 1999.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.An audience of chairs: a novel
By Joan Clark. 2005
Moranna MacKenzie lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness. Highly creative, she plays the…
piano, sings, writes, sculpts, and bakes - all perfectly - but also behaves erratically and alienates her friends and family. Still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously, she then learns that one of them is about to get married. 2005.Sylvanus Now
By Donna Morrissey. 2005
Sylvanus Now, a young Newfoundland fisherman of great charm and strength, wants to woo Adelaide, but she longs to escape…
the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community. But her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Bestseller. 2005.