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Halifax explodes! (Canadian flyer adventures. #17.)
By Frieda Wishinsky, Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall. 2011
Matt and Emily, using their magic time-travelling sled the Canadian Flyer, land on Citadel Hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during…
World War I, just as the Mont Blanc, a ship full of ammunition, explodes in the harbour! In the chaos that follows, the two friends find Tim, a dazed young soldier, and try to help him. Grades 2-4. 2011. (Canadian Flyer adventures ; 17)Arctic storm (Canadian flyer adventures. #16.)
By Frieda Wishinsky. 2011
Matt and Emily are on another adventure with the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled: the two friends meet a…
team of arctic research scientists, but the scientists are traveling without their guide, they've lost their radio and half their supplies, Arthur, a scientist's son, is ill and needs a doctor, and now a storm is coming. After the group is spooked in the night by howling wolves, they wake up to find their lead sled dog missing! Can Matt and Emily brave the storm and help their new friends back to safety? And will their faith in Moon Dog, the least experienced sled dog in the pack, help him lead the group through the storm? Grades 2-4. c2011. (Canadian flyer adventures ; 16)Fraser bear: a cub's life
By Maggie De Vries. 2010
Fraser bear is born in a den in the Rocky Mountains. Before he leaves his mother and sister to fend…
for himself, he must learn to find berries and nuts and insects to eat. He also learns to avoid danger. But most important, he needs to learn to catch a salmon in order to survive. He tries and tries, but the fish always escape. Will Fraser catch a salmon at last? Grades 2-4. 2010.Down the drain: how we are failing to protect our water resources
By Chris Wood, Ralph I Pentland. 2013
An incisive critique of Canada's failed management of its water supply. In this authoritative review of decades of independent critiques,…
accompanied by many riveting stories of water management failures, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland explore how governments have failed to protect the waters that we drink, fish, and swim in and that support every aspect of our national economy. 2013.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.Everything life has to offer
By Shari Kasman. 2016
In this collection of stories, life offers a free trip for two to Ethiopia and an imported cat, a pool…
of vegan gravy and an Internet Elvis wedding officiant, a confetti machine and a potentially life–changing hot tub. 2016.I am a truck
By Michelle Winters, Leigh Nash. 2016
Agathe and Réjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary when Réjean's beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned…
at the side of the road--with no trace of Réjean. Agathe handles her grief by fondling the shirts in the Big and Tall department at Hickey's Family Apparel and carrying on a relationship with a cigarette survey. As her hope dwindles, Agathe falls in with her spirited coworker, Debbie, who teaches Agathe about rock and roll, and with Martin Bureau, the one man who might know. Bestseller. 2016.Hot, wet, and shaking: how I learned to talk about sex
By Kaleigh Trace. 2014
This is a sex book. It's a book about having sex by yourself, with one person, or with twenty people…
if everyone is down. It's also about the things we don't talk about--the mystery, the expectations, and the bullshit that can go along with sex. Kaleigh Trace--disabled, queer, sex educator--chronicles her journey from ignorance to bliss as she shamelessly discusses her sexual exploits, bodily negotiations and attempts at adulthood, sparing none of the details and assuming you are not polite company. Winner of the 2015 East Coast Literary Award. 2014.How to get along with women: short stories
By Elisabeth De Mariaffi. 2012
Tales that tighten a tantalizing knot around power, identity, and sexuality, and propel the reader into those pivotal moments where…
we see ourselves for what we truly are. Includes strong language. c2012.Incidental music (Inanna poetry & fiction series)
By Lydia Perović. 2012
Through the eyes of its three main characters, Petra, Martha and Romola, this novel takes a sober outsider view of…
Canadian society and politics, explores Toronto’s heritage and urban development, and last but not least, revels in the beauty of opera. 2012.Blood red summer: A First Nations Mystery (Leo Desroches series. #3.)
By Wayne Arthurson, Kathy Van Denderen. 2016
During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to…
the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of the body bag. They are not crack cocaine, as Leo first thinks, but rough diamonds. The victim was not a drug user, but a worker at one of the new diamond mines above the Arctic Circle. Leo is led to investigate a smuggling ring and a deadly, billion dollar conflict between Native groups, rival gangs, and international mining conglomerates. 2015.Captives of Minara
By Eric E Wright. 2009
Josh Radley travels to Pakistan to write about archaeological discoveries that may unravel a mystery concerning the Indus civilization. While…
there he struggles to restore intimacy to his marriage and put to rest nightmares reaching back to his childhood as a missionary kid. Josh, along with his daughter Janice and wife, Stephanie, expect heat and dust but are unprepared to deal with sabotage, theft, kidnapping, and murder. Written to show the rich culture and generosity of the Pakistani people. c2009.Daddy bent-legs: the 40-year-old musing of a physically disabled man, husband, and father
By Neil Matheson. 2009
Neil Matheson was born with a physical disability called Cerebral Palsy, and from that day forward, Neil experienced life on…
a pair of crutches. Despite his physical handicap, Neil grew up like any regular kid. Now, at forty-one years of age, the author reflects back on his life story, a journey on crutches, including struggle, triumph, acceptance, love, and salvation. 2009.Home invasion (Good reads)
By Joy Fielding. 2011
A noise wakes Kathy Brown from a dream where she was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend, who…
was much more exciting than her husband Jack is. Hearing whispers, she gets up only to feel a gun at her head - two men are in the house, forcing Kathy and her husband into a living nightmare where Kathy also faces her real feelings about her husband. The outcome surprises everyone, most of all Kathy herself. Some descriptions of violence. High interest/low vocabulary book. Winner of the 2013 Golden Oak Award. 2011.Easy money (Good reads)
By Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2010
The author will show you how to make your money work for you. Budgeting, saving, and getting your debt paid…
off have never been so easy to understand or to do. 2010.In search of Canada: the early years of John Wesley Dafoe
By Christopher Dafoe. 2014
This is the story of the formative years of Canada's most famous newspaper editor, John Wesley Dafoe. Written by his…
grandson, it is an account of the man that his family and his friends knew, from his unpromising beginnings in the backwoods of pre-Confederation Ontario to his early and unexpected success in nineteenth-century Canadian journalism. It includes an examination of Dafoe's family background, his education, his early career, his rise as a national and international figure and his lifelong search for a true Canadian identity. 2014.Godless but loyal to heaven: stories
By Richard Van Camp. 2012
These stories, set in a fictionalized north, offer a potent mix tape of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and…
Aboriginal traditions. Van Camp’s characters repeatedly confront the bleakness of sexual assault, substance addiction and violence with the joy and humour of inspired storytelling. 2012.Friendly fire: a novel (Nunatak first fiction series ; #42)
By Lisa Guenther. 2015
As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating…
dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a whole new way, with hidden pain and anguish lurking behind familiar faces, and violence forever threatening to burst forth, like brushfire smouldering and dormant under the muskeg. 2015.Before I go to sleep
By S. J Watson. 2011
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your…
past, even the people you love, all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. Christine, an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is and who she can trust. Winner of the 2011 Crime Writer's Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Galaxy National UK Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year, 2011.Handling the undead
By John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg. 2009
The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance…
in the city is going at full blast and the entire population is struck by blinding headaches. The pressure builds to an intolerable pitch and then...stops. Moments later, in morgues and cemeteries across Stockholm, the dead start to rise, not the nameless zombies of classic horror - but real dead people: mothers, children, grandchildren and spouses. Desperately loved, bitterly missed and now 'reliving'. Which is not, it turns out, the same as being alive. 2009. Uniform title: Hanteringen av odöda.