Canadian Fiction

Andrea “Andi” Silvers needs a fresh start. Once a star reporter, she’s been dumped by her lover and by the paper they both worked at. She moves to the tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, where she lands a job at the local Gazette. Expecting bake sales and unpaid parking tickets to be the biggest news items, she quickly discovers the small town holds dark secrets.

L’école du Gévaudan ainsi que la ville qui l’entoure assiégées par des crimes insolites. Un monstre insidieux qui raconte ses états d’âme. Le regard du diable et l’intelligence d’un gladiateur rusé, gaillard et habile. Dans ce Conte Interdit, Bryan Perro revisite la légende de la Bête du Gévaudan, surnom attribué à des canidés ayant mené des attaques souvent mortelles sur des citoyens français du XVIIIe siècle, dans le département de la Lozère.

The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa’s little sister, who was scooped up by the government and adopted out to strangers without her parents’ permission many years ago, the Mighty Muskrats have a new mystery to solve. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and learn many of the difficulties of life in the city, as well as hard truths about their country’s treatment of First Nations people.

Le rêve brisé que je traîne derrière moi: le ballet. Je m’appelle Sarah et, autrefois, j’en faisais. Oh, je danse toujours...mais nue. Dans un bar. Ça reste de la danse. Voilà ce que je me répète sans cesse pour ne pas m’écrouler, pour tenter d’oublier à quel point ma vie est misérable.... En plus, je dois de l’argent à Carl, mon patron. Cinq mille dollars! Où vais-je bien pouvoir trouver une telle somme?

Als Mason nach Greenville zurückkehrt, hat er ein klares Ziel: die Beerdigung seiner geliebten Grandma überstehen und danach sofort wieder aus seiner Heimatstadt verschwinden, mit der er so viele schlechte Erinnerungen verbindet. Ein unerwartetes Erbe zwingt ihn, seinen Aufenthalt zu verlängern – und sich endlich den Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen. Dabei trifft er auf den sympathischen Konditor Ryan, der ihm Trost spendet und sogar einen Job verschafft.

Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Theory of Everything. A family man profoundly influenced by his pious father, Nurul is happily married to Sakina Begum by an arranged marriage. They have three children. But when Nurul travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a public lecture at Harvard, he falls in love with a graduate student, Hilary Chase.

This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, 15-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book - Mauve, the Horizon - is Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert.

Michael Andrews and Gail Sommers have finally found the love that had eluded them for so long. But their romance has uncovered an ancient evil curse neither of them could have anticipated. It does more than bring down a plague on their houses - it unleashes something far more sinister that can destroy humanity. Now they must choose: battle the evil forces out to destroy them, or continue to meet in secret while the rest of the world burns.

Convicted child molester Jane Thompson has made parole, but one month later the body of the student she was found guilty of abusing is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns Officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation, but things quickly get ugly, and not just with the case.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables . The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.

Rue Notre-Dame, le temps passe. À la radio, on écoute Un homme et son péché, et la mystérieuse télévision fait son apparition dans les vitrines des magasins. Fidèle à lui-même, Maurice s'emporte à tout moment. Jeanne, elle, se réfugie au presbytère.

With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of a boarding house kept afloat by the sweat and tears of a curious and not completely compatible collection of women, including this English teenager, Flora Salford.

Les héroïnes de Tu peux toujours courir sont de retour! Toujours passionnée par le sport, Maud possède maintenant une entreprise d’entraînement florissante. Côté amours, c’est une autre histoire! Après avoir fréquenté Samuel Côté (alias Amour-Propre), suivi de Manuel Gauthier, un mannequin volage, Maud est bien déterminée à rester célibataire. Jusqu’à ce qu’elle rencontre Colin, un séduisant Américain adepte de course… Pourrait-elle encore tomber amoureuse?

Le soir du 24 décembre, Rom et Nat guettent le père Noël avec impatience. Le vieil homme surgit dans la cheminée, comme prévu. Mais il n'est plus le même.... D'ailleurs, il n'est pas le seul: le lapin de Pâques et la fée des dents sont aussi devenus bien inquiétants. Que se passe-t-il donc? Rom et Nat résoudront ce mystère en plongeant dans une aventure qui les obligera à surmonter leurs peurs.

Elle se nomme Hélène, mais se fait appeler Joe parce qu'elle veut vivre en garçon comme lady Oscar, son héroïne de dessins animés préférée qui est la capitaine de la garde rapprochée de Marie-Antoinette. Comme elle, elle aimerait vivre à l'époque de la Révolution française et réaliser de grands exploits, car elle a l'âme romantique et un imaginaire avide de grands drames. Mais elle doit se contenter de passer les journaux, puis de travailler comme serveuse dans une salle de bingo.

When sixteen-year-old Jenny James goes missing, and the local police are unable to find her, the girl’s frantic mother hires private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to search for her daughter. When the body of Jenny’s boyfriend is discovered, the mystery of her disappearance deepens. Shaken out of their comfort zone of Internet searches and poring over public records, the couple soon find themselves facing the frightening possibility they are looking for the latest victim of a serial killer. As more bodies pile up, the town is gripped with fear. ...

Élie Mestenapeo sort de prison après avoir purgé sa peine pour le meurtre de son père, un homme alcoolique et violent. Sa communauté innue de Nutashkuan l'a banni. Il débarque à Montréal et se retrouve très vite dans la rue. Il y croisera des personnes d'autres nations, Inuit, Cris, Atikamekw, venues comme lui s'échouer dans la métropole, et il fera des rencontres déterminantes, qui l'aideront à se reconstruire.

À cette heure précise où les buses s'installent autour de la piscine, les parachutistes français, dans leurs transats de résine, se donnent des airs de Rambo, des coopérants québécois rivalisent de rires bruyants avec des coopérants belges.

A slave's brave journey to living his dream. John Ware, a well-known, highly loved, and acclaimed Black cowboy, arrived in Alberta at the beginning of the extraordinary ranching story on the grasslands. He faced and conquered snowstorms, vast distances, rough horses, not to mention a few rough men. As John participated in the building of some of the great Alberta ranches, he faced racism and delayed, but not forgotten, dreams of a ranch and family of his own. Being one of only a handful of Black men on the grasslands, his dream seemed to be passing him by.

At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art. Their rivalry sets the stage for all that follows in a narrative spanning over 30 years, beginning in Saskatchewan and moving, in the decades following the war, to Ottawa and New York City.