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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.Strangers among us
Par L. R Wright. 1996
Karl Alberg finds his latest case one of his most troubling. Teenager Eliot Gardener has killed his parents and wounded…
his sister with a machete. The key is, why? Eliot won't talk to anyone about it, and Karl deals with his own sense of self-blame, even though no one could have foreseen the tragedy. Some violence and strong language.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.Vancouver: a novel
Par David Cruise, Alison Griffiths. 2003
The story begins during the Ice Age and moves through history, revealing a fascinating cast of characters. A young girl…
faces the prospect of marriage into a faraway tribe; a Russian cartographer nearly meets his end at the hands of her descendants. And in modern times, a native girl struggles to escape Vancouver's impoverished downtown eastside. 2003.Will ye let the mummers in?: stories
Par Alden Nowlan. 1984
When is a man
Par Aaron Shepard. 2014
Paul Rasmussen is a young ethnographer and academic recovering from prostate cancer. He retreats to the remote forests and towns…
of the Immitoin Valley in British Columbia. As an outsider, he discovers how difficult it is to know a place, let alone become a part of it. Then a drowned man and a series of encounters with the locals force him to confront the valley's troubled past and his own uncertain future. As Paul turns his attention to the families displaced forty years earlier by the flooding of the valley to create a hydroelectric dam, his desire to reinvent himself runs up against the bitter emotions and mysterious connections that linger in the community in the aftermath of the flood. 2014.What is real
Par Karen Rivers. 2011
Dex Pratt's life has been turned upside down: his parents have divorced, his mother has remarried, and his father attempts…
suicide and fails. Dex returns to their small town to care for him, but he's not prepared for his father’s grow-op or his rotting rented house. Unable to cope, Dex begins smoking himself into a state of surrealism. He begins to lose touch with what is real and what he is imagining - and then there are the aliens and the girl-of-his-dreams and the crop circle. Strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. For senior high and older readers. c2011.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.Two roads home: a novel
Par Daniel Griffin. 2017
Vancouver Island, 1993. A group of idealistic young activists, determined to do whatever it takes to protect the environment, turn…
to sabotage. But in a single moment everything they've worked for goes horribly wrong, when a night watchman at a logging company warehouse is killed in an explosion that they set. Follows these activists as their lives-- and their cause-- spiral out of control. Griffin reimagines history: what if, instead of the legendarily peaceful and successful Clayoquot Sound protests of the 1990s, things had gone too far? How far is too far, when it comes to protesting what one sees as injustice? And what happens when that line is crossed? 2017.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