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Haunted hearts
By John Lawrence Reynolds. 2003
Hired as an investigator by a prestigious law firm, detective McGuire settles into a routine - uncovering insurance frauds, tracing…
missing persons, and pursuing a romance with a love-struck secretary. Then lawyer Orin Flanigan is murdered, a street thug who eluded McGuire goes on a killing spree, and McGuire gets emotionally involved with a mysterious woman who is somehow linked to Flanigan's death. Strong language. 2003.Fugitive pieces
By Anne Michaels. 1996
Jakob Beer, rescued during the Second World War and taken to refuge in Greece by Athos Roussos, follows Athos to…
Toronto, where he begins his career as a translator and poet. When he is sixty, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor, whose life is changed because of Jakob's writing and Ben's own legacies of the war. 1996.Hey Nostradamus!: a novel
By Douglas Coupland. 2003
Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament - and eerie premonition - on a school…
binder shortly before a trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, the sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood where it occurs declares its saints, brands its demons, and finally moves on. 2003.Getting lucky: stories
By Matt Cohen. 2000
His banner over me
By Jean Little. 1995
Flora Gauld has always lived in Taiwan, where her parents are missionaries, so it takes her some time to feel…
at home when her family returns to Canada. She must make a new life for herself in Canada with her relatives when her parents return to Taiwan. Her world changes again with the outbreak of the First World War, and Flora must decide if she can pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Grades 5-8. 1995.Hominids
By Robert J Sawyer. 2002
During a quantum-computing experiment, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel world, accidentally pierces the barrier between our worlds…
and is transferred to our universe, finding himself a stranger in a strange land. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, is left with a messy lab, a missing person, and an accusation of murder. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Hero of lesser causes
By Julie Johnston. 1992
Twelve-year-old Keely Connor loves a challenge and is carefree and adventurous in her daily life in 1946 Canada. She faces…
a bigger challenge than she could have ever imagined, however, when her gifted older brother, Patrick, is paralyzed with polio and loses interest in living. Keely takes on the cause of healing Patrick's broken spirit and renewing his zest for life. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1992.Girlfriend in a coma
By Douglas Coupland. 1998
High school senior Karen Ann McNeil has lapsed into a coma. While her boyfriend, Richard, and their circle of friends…
make their way in the world, Karen remains comatose for nearly twenty years. She wakes up to find them living in an emotional purgatory and a different world. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.Fossil hunter (The quintaglio Trilogy #Bk. 2)
By Robert J Sawyer. 1993
According to the Sacred Scrolls, the first intelligent saurians emerged from the eighth and final egg of God. But Toroca,…
son of Afsan the Far-Seer and a geologist searching for rare metals needed to take his species to other stars, discovers an artifact which may reveal the true origin of the saurian race. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Far-Seer". Followed by "Foreigner" (DC12737). c1993.Footsteps in the snow: the Red River diary of Isobel Scott (Dear Canada)
By Carol Matas. 2002
Isobel's family is coming to Canada to find their fortunes, but misfortunes seem to follow their every step. The settlers…
endure many hardships on their way to their Red River Valley settlement, and they soon find themselves caught in the fur-trading rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. Will they survive the harsh climate and the threats against the settlers? Grades 4-7. 2002.Forests of the heart
By Charles De Lint. 2000
In her mid-twenties, Bettina San Miguel leaves her desert homeland for a northern art colony. There the presence of los…
lobos draws her into the mythic world of the past, where Celtic spirits followed Irish immigrants and met the resident Indian and Mexican spiritual forces. 2000.Fractures: family stories
By Budge Wilson. 2002
Forms of devotion: Stories And Pictures
By Diane Schoemperlen. 1998
Schoemperlen's stories explore the nature of devotion in its many forms, from the devotion to material objects and daily rituals,…
to the pleasures of the body and the pains of romantic love. Some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 1998.Flesh and blood
By Kenneth Radu. 2001
Rose is still young and pretty, but her existence is defined by immigrant poverty and a loveless marriage in rural…
wartime Ontario. Then passion and hope burst into Rose's life in the handsome countenance of Bobby, a black man whose grandparents fled to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Rose and Bobby's friendship grows into a dangerous love affair and now Rose is pregnant, but how can they live together in a community that cannot accept a union between a white woman and a black man? 2001.Elle: a novel
By Douglas H Glover. 2003
The chronicles of the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman. She was marooned on the desolate Isle of…
Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Based on a true story. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 2003.Excessive joy injures the heart
By Elisabeth Harvor. 2000
Claire Vornoff is recently separated and plagued with insomnia. Her search for alternative healing leads her to meet, and eventually…
fall in love with, doctor Declan Farrell. As their relationship deepens and goes through multiple changes, Claire finds her life turned upside down by her conflicting emotions. Some descriptions of sex.Firewing (The silverwing Trilogy Ser.)
By Kenneth Oppel. 2003
Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked into the Underworld during an earthquake. Shade, Griffin's father, goes to rescue him,…
knowing that if the living stumble into the land of the dead, they have only a short time before death claims them too. But something else is also hunting Griffin - a deadly foe Shade hoped he would never see again. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Companion to "Silverwing" (DC15815) and "Sunwing" (DC19512). 2003.Fidelity: short fiction
By Michael Redhill. 2003
A collection of short fiction that asks the question: What does it mean to be true? Though it never arouses…
his wife's suspicions, a business-trip affair leaves a man haunted by what he has learned about himself. A traveling salesman, in trying to remain friends with his ex-wife, keeps breaking her heart. The stories reveal that even in our profound connection to others, we are always somehow alone. Some strong language. 2003.Feed my dear dogs
By Emma Richler. 2005
Jem Weiss is the middle child in an eccentric literary family, modeled on author Richler's own family. Her father is…
a Jewish-Canadian writer, her mother is a Protestant goddess with a mysterious past, and her four siblings quote Dickens over breakfast and share a private world of cowboys and Antarctic explorers. Intelligent, panicked by change, and fixated on her elusive mother, Jem filters all her experiences through books and movies as she recounts her childhood. Companion to "Sister crazy" (DC22310). Some strong language. 2005.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.