Canadian fiction

  • Kiss of the fur queen

    Creator

    Highway, Tomson

    Abstract

    In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen. Nine months afterward, Abraham's wife Mariesis gives birth to their son, Champion, in a tent on a trapline in snowy northern Manitoba. Later, three-year-old Champion watches his brother Ooneemeetoo come into the world in the same tent. The boys grow up in a magical Cree Garden of Eden: stars, fish and caribou are their playmates; canoes and dogsleds transport their nomadic family.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié

  • The nesting dolls : a Joanne Kilbourn mystery

    Creator

    Bowen, Gail

    Abstract

    A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ont.

    McClelland & Stewart

    Non spécifié

  • Belle of Batoche

    Creator

    Guest, Jacqueline

    Abstract

    Bele must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria, B.C.

    Orca Book Publishers

    Non spécifié

  • Dust

    Creator

    Slade, Arthur G.

    Abstract

    Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ont.

    HarperCollins

    Non spécifié

  • The Englishman's boy

    Creator

    Vanderhaeghe, Guy

    Abstract

    "The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era - with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers - provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue.

    Audience
    General**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ont.

    McClelland & Stewart

    Non spécifié

  • Pewter angels : 1956-1957

    Creator

    Ripplinger, Henry

    Abstract

    Book 1 of the Angelic Letters Series

    Things change for 15-year-old Henry Pederson when Jenny Sarsky along with her guardian angel and her family move in nearby. The attraction is immediate and the two of them embark on life's journey together.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Non spécifié

  • Another angel of love : 1959-1963

    Creator

    Ripplinger, Henry

    Abstract

    Book 2 of the Angelic Letters Series

    Two years after Jenny Sarsky and her family moved out of Henry Pedersen's life, he still longs for her, their whirlwind romance gone from his life but not his heart. Henry and Jenny are unaware Jennys parents have burned all his letters but the lastit is protected, it seems, by a heavenly power. Henry continues to rely on the love, support and powerful insights of his mentor Mr. Engelmann, and his secret plan to seek Jenny out sustains the hope that one day his first love will returnuntil he meets Julean Carter.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Non spécifié