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Constellations
Par Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1988
After 15 years, Claire Saulnier returns to Nova Scotia to teach at a local college. She becomes involved with four…
people: Mariette, a disturbed teenager; Bertrand, a self-centred and reluctant teacher from Paris; a promising oboeist from Halifax; and Hector, the college janitor, a dropout from a philosophy Ph.D program. Some strong language.The lost highway
Par David Adams Richards. 2007
Alex Chapman's lifelong feud with his tyrannical great-uncle James, and the ironic twists of his life, drive him to desperation.…
He blames his uncle for an old humiliation that prevented him from admitting his feelings for Minnie, the girl who loved him. He begins a treacherous intrigue against James, aligning himself with Leo Bourque, not realizing that their twinned descent will become deadly. Some descriptions of sex, strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2007.Sweetland
Par Michael Crummey. 2014
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2014.The wreckage: a novel
Par Michael Crummey. 2005
Newfoundland, 1940. Mercedes Parsons is only 16 when she begins an intense relationship with traveling projectionist Wish Furey. Wish enlists…
in the British Army, only to be captured by the Japanese, and Sadie settles in St. John's to wait for his return. Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter the ashes of her dead husband and collides with Wish, whom she believed dead. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2005.The money pit mystery
Par Eric Walters. 1999
Sam and Beth accompany their mother on a visit to their grandfather's home on Oak Island. Something strange seems to…
be happening to grand-dad. Apart from losing his memory, he's also spending a lot of time on a hunt for a 200-year-old treasure. Sam is bitten by the treasure bug too, and he and the whole family set out to solve the mystery. Grades 4-7. 1999.Will ye let the mummers in?: stories
Par Alden Nowlan. 1984
Waiting for time
Par Bernice Morgan. 1995
This sequel to "Random passage" continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. It also tells the story of…
today's Newfoundland, a place where the past overshadows the present and shapes the future. Lave Andrews, a young professional sent from Ottawa to assess the fisheries crisis, discovers her roots as she explores the province. 1995.Various persons named Kevin O'Brien: a fictional memoir
Par Alden Nowlan. 1973
Kevin O'Brien returns to the isolated Maritime village of his childhood. In the confusing rural atmosphere which he had once…
sought to escape, he relives the loneliness and desperate shyness of his introspective youth. 1973.Tranter's tree (The International fiction list ; #36)
Par H. R Percy. 1987
Two hundred years of Nova Scotian history, told through the lives of Ned Tranter who sided with the French in…
the expulsion of the Acadians, politician Joseph Howe, and a pair of witches who live two centuries apart. 1987.Tide Road
Par Valerie Compton. 2011
When Stella disappears, leaving her toddler and husband behind, her mother Sonia struggles with the possibility that her daughter may…
not have slipped through the ice but was pushed. Confronted with her own history of choices and failures, Sonia must revise her perception of her daughter's life and dramatically change the way she lives her own. Some strong language, and some descriptions of violence. c2011.There you are
Par JoAnne Taylor. 2004
World War II is not long past and life is returning to normal in Cape Breton's lovely Margaree Valley, home…
to just 12 families. But Jeannie Shaw is achingly lonely. When the Parker family moves back to the Valley, Jeannie is thrilled - perhaps among the children is a girl her age. All these thoughts are put aside, however, when a near tragedy strikes Jeannie's family. Grades 4-7. 2004.The wise and foolish virgins
Par Don Hannah. 1998
In a sedate New Brunswick town, the lives of twelve people collide unexpectedly, and the results will change their lives…
forever. This is a story of family relationships, thwarted love, and past secrets. 1998.The town that drowned
Par Bethany Gibson, Riel Nason. 2011
1960’s. Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough, falling through the ice at a skating…
party and nearly drowning is embarrassing, but having a vision and telling everyone just solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw that day was her entire town floating underwater. Then the residents of Haverton discover that a massive dam is being constructed and that most of their homes will be swallowed by the rising water, and suspicions mount, tempers flare, and secrets are revealed. For junior high readers. c2011.The strangers' gallery
Par Paul Bowdring. 2013
St. John’s archivist Michael Lowe’s life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his…
doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands at the end of the WWII. Anton’s visit drags on as he is reluctant to go in search of his father, but keen to learn as much as he can about Newfoundland, its history, and its people. Rabble-rouser and ardent Newfoundland patriot Brendan “Miles” Harnett, Michael’s friend, is obsessed with his own search for the lost “fatherland” of Newfoundland, which relinquished its political independence in 1934. Miles is only too eager to teach Anton - and Michael - the shameful, forgotten history of the lost country of Newfoundland. 2013.The summer the whales sang (A Time of our lives book)
Par Gloria Montero. 1985
The terrible tide
Par Alisa Craig. 1983
The second season of Jonas MacPherson
Par Lesley Choyce. 1989
The life of reclusive Jonas MacPherson, an Eastern Shore Nova Scotian, is interwoven with mystical Joe Allen Joe, fisherman John…
Kincaid, Muriel Cree and the mulatto Baptist preacher. For Jonas, the sea has always been a force that lures him, although he knows that it can destroy him. Some strong language.The promised land: a novel of Cape Breton
Par Bill Conall. 2013
Skillfully and hilariously navigates the ebb and flow of island life on Cape Breton, where things go from bad to…
worse to Oh My Goodness! And all the while, the author shares his characters’ belief that “They’re all good days if we’re here to see them.” Awarded the 2014 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal For Humour. 2013.The long stretch
Par Linden MacIntyre. 1999
In one apocalyptic night, John Gillis and his estranged cousin Sextus confront a half century of half-truths and suppositions that…
have shaped and scarred their lives, their families and their insular Cape Breton community. They begin to realize that they were damaged before they were born, their fathers and a close friend forming an unholy trilogy in a tragic moment of war. Among the roots of a complex and painful relationship, they uncover the truth of a fateful day John has spent 20 years trying to forget. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006, c1999.Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; #1)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1986
L'histoire d'une petite orpheline de Île-du-Prince-Édouard qui a envotée les jeunes et les moins jeunes. Anne, c'est cette fillette espiègle…
à la tête remplie d'idées saugrenues, qui s'émerveille face à la nature, jouie de la magie des mots, rit de ses propres défauts, nous fait découvrir un coin de pays pittoresque, et qui ne cesse de dérouter ses parents adoptifs. Années 5 à 8. Suivi de "Anne d'Avonlea". 1986. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 1) Titre uniforme: Anne of Green Gables.