Canadian fiction

  • Inspector Bliss Mysteries 8-Book Bundle

    Creator

    Hawkins, James

    Abstract

    This ebook bundle contains the first eight novels of the Inspector Bliss Mystery series by James Hawkins.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Camilla MacPhee Mysteries 6-Book Bundle Speak Ill of the Dead / The Icing on the Corpse / Little Boy Blues / The Devil's in the Details / Law and Disorder

    Creator

    Maffini, Mary Jane

    Abstract

    Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first six books of the Camilla MacPhee Mystery series are gathered together. Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, and her uneasy association with the world of crime takes bizarre turns through hotel crucifixions, firebombing, vengeful exes, drowned lawyers, and bossy sisters in this seriously funny, dark mystery series.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Uprising A Novel

    Creator

    Bland, Douglas L.

    Abstract

    A surprise attack on the nation’s military bases and power stations sends the Armed Forces scrambling. When impoverished, disheartened, poorly educated, but well-armed aboriginal young people find a modern revolutionary leader, they rally with a battle cry of "Take Back the Land!" Theirs is a fight to right the wrongs inflicted on them by "the white settlers."They know they are too small to take on the entire country, but they don’t need to.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Totem

    Creator

    Maruno, Jennifer

    Abstract

    Jonny must travel to the distant past to understand the present. As an orphaned white boy in a school full of Native students, fourteen-year-old Jonny Joe isn’t like any of the others at the island Redemption Residential School off the west coast. When the advances of Father Gregory disturb Jonny, he joins another boy in an escape to a mountain cave. But when they leave the cave, the world as they knew it no longer exists. The boys travel to a native village in a sheltered bay, where Jonny becomes skilled in the art of carving.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • The Paper Sword Spell Crossed

    Creator

    Priest, Robert

    Abstract

    A painted sword is their only protection from evil sorcery, strange creatures, and enemy forces. On the spell-crossed Phaer Isle, teenage Xemion dreams of being a great swordsman. When he finds a blade-shaped stick, he fashions it to look like a real sword. Knowing that the laws of their cruel Pathan conquerors would require a death sentence for possession of such an object, his friend Saheli demands he destroy it. He agrees, but insists on performing just one sword ceremony.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Stealing Time A Jonah Wiley Adventure

    Creator

    Dublin, Anne

    Abstract

    Thrown back in time by a mysterious pocket watch, Jonah and his stepbrother, Toby, are forced to overcome their differences and work together to return to the present.  Jonah Wiley is having a tough time. First, his parents divorced, and now his mom is going to a conference and leaving him with his dad and stepmother. But after Jonah steals an antique pocket watch, he and his stepbrother Toby are hurled back in time — to Egypt, China, France, and other places around the world.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • The Plagues of Kondar

    Creator

    Kositsky, Lynne

    Abstract

    Arien holds the key to healing her planet. Planet Kondar has a light side that faces the sun and a dark side in eternal night. Lightsiders have never met those on Darkside, known as Oscura. Arien lives in Kattannya on Lightside. When her parents fall through thin ice and drown, she is sold in the marketplace. The chief seer of Vor, Yaddair, purchases her. Vor is very close to Edge, a grey wall of fog that divides Lightside from Oscura. The Oscurans are suffering from a deadly plague and some fly into Vor, bringing the disease with them. How will the Vorians cure it?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Thaddeus Lewis Mysteries 3-Book Bundle 47 Sorrows / On the Head of a Pin / Sowing Poison

    Creator

    Kellough, Janet

    Abstract

    This ebook bundle contains the first three novels of the Thaddeus Lewis Mystery series. During the wild era before Confederation, Thaddeus Lewis, a "saddlebag" preacher, mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. But soon other deaths hang over Lewis’s head.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified