Canadian fiction

  • Casey Templeton Mysteries 2-Book Bundle Hate Cell / Old Bones

    Creator

    Molnar, Gwen

    Abstract

    In Hate Cell, thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford. One night Casey seeks refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned farmhouse and stumbles upon his nearly frozen, unconscious science teacher, Mr. Deverell. Casey attempts to revive his teacher and searches the house for something to make a fire. In the attic he makes a frightening discovery — an office filled with computers, a printer, and racist posters and flyers!

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • One Night in Mississippi

    Creator

    Shreve, Craig

    Abstract

    After fifty years of guilt over his brother’s brutal murder in Civil Rights–era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renews his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face -to- face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario town, where a contest of wits will end in death. One Night in Mississippi is the story of a young activist named Graden Williams, who was brutally murdered in Mississippi during the sixties.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Murder in the Family The Dr. King Story

    Creator

    Buchanan, Dan

    Abstract

    As the old saying goes, "You can pick your friends, but not your relatives." In tranquil Northumberland County, Ontario, two families are well acquainted with the grim truth of that innocuous-sounding expression. They are the descendants of the first, and only, man executed in Northumberland's history. In a sordid true-crime tale of poison and philandering in 1850s Ontario, the respected Dr. William Henry King astonished the countryside with the sinister murder of his wife and with his subsequent attempts to evade justice.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Shroud of Roses A Cornwall and Redfern Mystery

    Creator

    Ferris, Gloria

    Abstract

    The Class of 2000 held one final party in the old gym before the high school was abandoned and boarded up. At midnight, the school emptied for the last time. Or so everyone believed. Fifteen years later, the building is scheduled for demolition. When a salvage team discovers a skeleton curled up in a locker, a hole in the left temple, Lockport’s chief of police, Neil Redfern, is called in to investigate. When Redfern learns that his girlfriend, Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall, also graduated that fateful year, he reveals details of the grisly discovery.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Seven Wanderers 2-Book Bundle Lives of Magic / Lives of Kings

    Creator

    Leiderman, Lucy

    Abstract

    Seventeen-year-old Gwen is settling into her new home in Oregon and looking forward to senior year when she is kidnapped by Kian, who warns her that she is in terrible danger. An ancient war was fought between magical Celtic warriors and three evil magicians, who are alive and well and need Gwen’s magic to regain their power. If they succeed, they’ll be unstoppable. To save the world, Gwen must unlock the magic trapped in her memories of a past life in Britannia. As Gwen starts to recover her lost memories, she suffers the consequences of a divided soul.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Peggy Henderson Adventures 3-Book Bundle Bone Deep / Broken Bones / Reading the Bones

    Creator

    McMurchy-Barber, Gina

    Abstract

    This three-book bundle collects the adventures of 12-year-old adventurer and bone expert Peggy Henderson. In Reading the Bones, due to circumstances beyond her control, Peggy has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, B.C., to live with her aunt and uncle. She learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built on top of a 5,000-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With the help of an elderly archaeologist, Peggy comes to know the ancient storyteller buried in her yard in a way that few others can – by reading the bones.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Masques and Murder — Death at the Opera 2-Book Bundle The Fallen One / Roses for a Diva

    Creator

    Blechta, Rick

    Abstract

    This special two-book bundle collects the adventures in crime of opera star Marta Hendriks. In The Fallen One, Marta is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband’s death in a house fire. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she’s hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance. During one of her rare days off, Marta spots someone: her husband.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Inspector Green Mysteries 10-Book Bundle Do or Die / Once Upon a Time / Mist Walker / Fifth Son / The Whisper of Legends / and 5 more

    Creator

    Fradkin, Barbara

    Abstract

    This ebook bundle contains the first ten novels of the Inspector Green Mystery series by Barbara Fradkin. On dangerous backstreets of Ottawa, Homicide Inspector Michael Green leads complex investigations into sensational cases. When his job puts his marriage, life, and even his family in harm’s way, Green’s obsession with uncovering the truth leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Matrons and Madams

    Creator

    Johnston, Sharon

    Abstract

    A Globe and Mail Bestseller! Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing a brothel called The Last Post.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Ukkusiksalik The People's Story

    Creator

    Pelly, David F.

    Abstract

    The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. Since the 1980s, Arctic writer and researcher David F.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié