Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf.
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Author:Goodspeed, Michael J.
Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction, War fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Cooper, Cheryl
Summary:In Come Looking for Me, a mysterious young English woman named Emily risks a crossing of the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for the promise of a new adventure in Canada. But she never arrives.
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Author:Aiken, Gordon
Summary:Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Political fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Winberg, Mona
,Boyer, J. Patrick
Summary:Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational confli
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Author:Fradkin, Barbara
Summary:In the seventh book in the acclaimed Inspector Green series, an old man is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market.
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Author:Harlick, R.J.
Summary:Short-listed for the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel The sparsely populated Arctic is no stranger to murder.
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Author:Allin, Lou
Summary:In this new series by the acclaimed author of the Belle Palmer mysteries, RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vanco
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Author:Forrest, C.B.
Summary:Toronto at the close of 1999. It is a time of change, but Detective Charlie McKelvey’s life is stuck on pause since the murder of his runaway son, Gavin.
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Author:Forrest, C.B.
Summary:Short-listed for the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Some bullets take years to find their mark… Former Toronto Detective Charlie McKelvey is puttering through the first year of his f
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Author:Goddard, Lance
Summary:Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people.
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Author:Twiston-Davies, David
,Black, Conrad
Summary:Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years.
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Author:Pigott, Peter
Summary:It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both.
Genre: Canadian nonfictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Hennessy, Peter H.
Summary:A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter’s Bay to the west of the town.
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Author:Mount, Graeme
Summary:In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards.
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Author:Bourrie, Mark
Summary:Three beautiful gothic buildings loom over the Ottawa River just below the historic Chaudiere Falls.
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