Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
21) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island. Now an independent young woman with a knack for trouble and misadventures, Anne gains new insights about love, friendship, and the ways of the world.
23) The boggart
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.
Author
Series
Dragon slayer of Trondheim volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its...
26) The stone angel
Author
Series
Manawaka novels volume 1
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
" ... a compelling journey seen through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her life. At ninety, Hagar Shipley speaks movingly of the perils of growing old and reflects with bitterness, humor, and a painful awareness of her own frailties on the life she has led. From her childhood as the daughter of a respected merchant, to her rebellious marriage, Hagar has fought a long and sometimes misguided battle for independence and respect. In the course...
27) The diviners
Author
Series
Manawaka novels volume 5
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
28) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Dragon slayer of Trondheim volume 2
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone; his two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire... and try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. At least, not all the way...
29) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Mrs. Mike series volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily-or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with "eyes so blue you could swim in them," Mike Flannigan is a well-respected sergeant in the Canadian Mounted Police-and a man of great courage, kindness, and humor. Together, he and his beloved Kathy manage to live a good, honest...
Author
Publisher
Astoria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Saeed Teebi's intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family's destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with...
31) Suki's kimono
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Suki's grandmother visited the family over the summer and brought her a blue cotton kimono. Now Suki is determined to wear it on the first day of school -- no matter what anyone says.
32) Brother
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caught between cultures, immigrant families from a Bengali neighbourhood in Toronto strive to navigate their home, relationships, and happiness. Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, Home of the Floating Lily follows the lives of the characters as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict. A young woman moves to Toronto after getting married but soon discovers her husband is not who she believes...
34) The robber bride
Author
Language
English
Description
From the extraordinary imagination of Margaret Atwood comes her most intricate and subversive novel yet. Roz, Charis, and Tony -- war babies all -- share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Zenia is beautiful and smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, the turbulent center of her own never-ending saga. Zenia entered their lives when they were in college, in the sixties; and over the three decades since, she damaged...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"ietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a comfortable life for themselves in Toronto with their family nail salon. But when an ultra-glam chain salon opens across the street, their world is rocked. Complicating matters further, their landlord has jacked up the rent and it seems only a matter of time before they lose their business and everything they've built. They enlist the help of their daughter, Jessica, who has just returned home...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for both her and her daughter, Sahaara. Sahaara would do anything to protect her mother. When she learns the truth about Kiran’s past, she feels compelled to seek justice—even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man. --from Amazon.
"In a world that intentionally...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys make a gruesome find that reveals a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police buried thousands of murder victims in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation--30,000 dead--has far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, young lawyer Leah Jarvis finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the trial of elderly Stefan Drozd, a former member of Stalin's forces, who fled...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and helped him grow into a man of character. Then his job as a Royal Canadian Mountie brings tragedy into his life once again. Assigned to a new post some five years later, he rediscovers someone who may be able to help him put his past behind him. And when Henry's sister, Christine, leaves home, she finds employment and loses her heart. But is she on the wrong...
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the power failure that brought about societal collapse. Since then they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors once did, but their natural food resources are dwindling, and the time has come to find a new home. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their original...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request