Canadian fiction

  • Kiss the joy as it flies

    Creator

    Fitch, Sheree

    Abstract

    Panic-stricken by the news that she needs exploratory surgery, forty-eight-year-old Mercy Beth Fanjoy drafts a monumental "to do" list and sets about putting her messy life in order. Among other things (hide the vibrator!), she's determined to finally uncover the identity of her secret admirer; reconnect with a lost friend and rival Teen Gaudet; and, most importantly, get her hands on the note her father left her before committing suicide all those years ago. But tidying up the edges of her life means the past comes rushing back to haunt her and the present keeps throwing up more to do's.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Halifax, N.S., Nimbus Pub.

    Non spécifié
  • Sea change

    Creator

    Viva, Frank

    Abstract

    Follows a young boy who is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in a remote part of Nova Scotia. As the summer wears on, the hero forges solid friendships with other kids in the small fishing community and is changed forever by the experience.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, ON

    Tundra Books

    Non spécifié
  • Anne la maison aux pignons verts : roman

    Creator

    Montgomery, L. M.

    Abstract

    Sur le quai de la gare, Marilla et Matthew attendent l'orphelin qui les aidera sur leur ferme. C'est une rouquine aux yeux pétillants qui se présente... Jouir de la magie des mots, rire de ses propres défauts, s'émerveiller face à la nature, découvrir un coin de pays pittoresque, voilà ce qui nous attend dans ce roman inoubliable.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Montréal, Que

    Québec Amérique

    Non spécifié
  • Slow Curve on the Coquihalla : The Hunter Rayne Highway Mysteries, no. 1

    Creator

    Donald, R. E.

    Abstract

    When a well respected truck driver, the owner of a family trucking business, is found dead in his truck down a steep embankment along the Coquihalla highway that winds through the mountains in British Columbia, his distraught daughter wants to know how and why his truck left the highway on an easy uphill curve. This compels Hunter Rayne, a fellow trucker and retired RCMP detective with daughters of his own, to help her find answers.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Langley, B.C.

    Proud Horse Pub.

    Non spécifié
  • Ice on the Grapevine : The Hunter Rayne Highway Mysteries, no. 2

    Creator

    Donald, R. E.

    Abstract

    On a warm July morning in L.A. County, a frozen corpse turns up at a highway brake check just south of the Grapevine Pass. Ex-homicide detective Hunter Rayne, who now drives an eighteen wheeler, is persuaded by his irascible dispatcher, Elspeth Watson, to help clear two fellow truck drivers who are arrested for the murder. His job is made more difficult by the fact that the suspects, a newlywed couple, won't speak up in their own defense. The circumstantial evidence is strong, and a rookie detective from the L.A.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Langley, B.C.

    Proud Horse Pub.

    Non spécifié
  • Sea to sky : a Hunter Rayne highway mystery, no. 3

    Creator

    Donald, R. E.

    Abstract

    A dead man rides the chairlift to the bottom of a ski hill on Whistler Mountainches Former RCMP homicide detective Hunter Rayne is at the top of the suspect list, so Hunter has no choice but to get involved in the investigation in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, trucker Hunter was scheduled to haul a load of freight to Northern California, so he calls up his old friend, biker Dan Sorenson, to take his place behind the wheel. What connects the badass biker from Yreka, California to the most prolific female serial killer in US history?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Langley B.C.

    Proud Horse Pub.

    Non spécifié
  • Sundown on top of the world : a Hunter Rayne highway mystery, no. 4

    Creator

    Donald, R. E

    Abstract

    While his Freightliner is awaiting repairs in Whitehorse, Yukon, Hunter and fellow driver, Dan (Sorry) Sorenson, kill time with a side trip to bush Alaska where a chance meeting with a young Alaskan woman awakens his interest in a baffling cold case. A reclusive trapper and his young girlfriend disappeared from a bloody cabin 25 years before, leaving their sled dogs chained outside. Reawakened memories of his past coupled with a recent murder find Hunter back in investigative mode with the blessings of Whitehorse RCMP boss Bartholomew Sam, son of a shaman and Hunter's old friend.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Lone Butte, BC

    Proud Horse Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Company town

    Creator

    Ashby, Madeline

    Abstract

    "New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Tor

    Non spécifié
  • Knucklehead : a novel

    Creator

    Lennox, Matt

    Abstract

    Ashley Rosco works as a bouncer at the only nightclub in a small town, spending his off-hours training as a bodybuilder. He occasionally acts as muscle for his best friend, Darren, a small-time drug dealer. Darrens girlfriend, Chass, has had her own problems with drugs, and has lost custody of her young daughter. Both Darren and Chass have been acting strangely, but things really change when Ash gets a call from Chass on a bad connection, asking for his help. Chass is Ashs cousinand, as we discover, the secret love of his life.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    HarperCollins

    Non spécifié
  • Calvin

    Creator

    Leavitt, Martine

    Abstract

    In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture. And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold...

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto : Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2015

    Non spécifié