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Par David Adams Richards. 2006
Postwar New Brunswick. Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a…
fortune-teller - that her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2006.Par Marie Jakober. 2007
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.Par Donna Morrissey. 2012
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her…
younger self leads her back through her past. She must pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father, despite their mutual hatred. 2012.Par L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.Par Linden MacIntyre. 2009
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist, for at his bishop's bidding he drives out priests who molest children to…
discreet clinics or far-off parishes. When MacAskill is sent to a rural parish in his native Cape Breton, he encounters a troubled young man who appears to be the victim of a notorious priest. MacAskill, struggling with his own demons, is determined to help this man, regardless of the consequences for the church. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2009.Par Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Par Fredric Gary Comeau. 2016
" Les filles ne disent jamais toute la vérité. Les hommes sont trop fragiles pour l'entendre et elles le savent…
très bien. Évelyne a traversé la vie d'Antoine comme un météore. Ensemble, ils ont sillonné l'Amérique, se sont abandonnés à toutes les ivresses, puis elle est repartie comme elle est arrivée, sans prévenir. Antoine se réfugie alors dans la forêt pour composer douze chansons à la mémoire de l'absente. Puis il s'envole pour Tokyo, où il fera la rencontre du mystérieux professeur Aoki et de l'évanescente Akiko. Douze chansons pour Évelyne suit la trajectoire brisée du poète et chanteur acadien Antoine Bourque. Un road novel captivant, entre le Montréal des années quatre-vingt-dix et le Japon d'aujourd'hui, en passant par le Mexique et le Portugal. " -- 4e de couv.Par Susan Sinnott. 2018
The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read.…
But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is confident in his plans for the future. But one icy evening his world is upended and those plans are swept away. Now he must face a different life and his own struggle. Winner of the 2014 Percy Janes First Novel Award for an unpublished manuscript. 2018.Par Nicole Lundrigan. 2011
When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis blames the abusive alcoholic, Eli Fagan,…
and hated grows between the two families of Knife's Point, Newfoundland. Desperate to smother the painful past with love, Lewis marries Wilda, and takes pleasure in their two children, Melvin and Toby. But as he watches his small family fracture, the darkness of the past begins to cloud the present, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan - and his watchful stepson, Garrett Glass. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2011.Par Lisa Moore. 2009
Helen is a woman shattered by the drowning death of her husband, Cal. Now in her mid-50s and reconciled to…
loneliness, Helen sews prom and wedding dresses for a living and cares for her grandchildren. After having spent half a lifetime picking up the pieces after Cal's death, she has taken the major step of renovating the house, and finds herself unexpectedly stirred by the presence of her carpenter, Barry. 2009.Par L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.Par Emma Hooper. 2018
The fish have mysteriously disappeared, and in the fishing village of Big Running most families had no choice but to…
relocate and find work elsewhere. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. Plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between Aidan and Martha only widens. Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish, and is aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. Callaghan. Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses but--desperate for a bigger life beyond the small town--takes matters into her own hands. 2018.Par Howard A Norman. 2010
Nova Scotia, 1967. Loner Wyatt Hillyer decides to write a memoir in the form of a letter on the occasion…
of his estranged daughter Marlais' twenty-first birthday. He slowly discloses the events of his parents' scandalous deaths in 1941, his teenage years living with his aunt and uncle, the joys of fatherhood, and what led to his abandoning his only daughter and her mother. 2010.Par Kathleen Winter, Claudine Vivier. 2012
" En 1968, dans un village côtier du Labrador, un enfant mystérieux voit le jour. Ni tout à fait homme,…
ni tout à fait femme, le secret est gardé par trois personnes : Jacinta et Treadway, ses parents, et une voisine, Thomasina, qui sait tenir sa langue. Le roman suit Annabel-Wayne dans sa découverte du monde et la relation complexe quelle entretient avec son autre nature , celle qui refuse de se taire et laccompagne, telle une ombre fidèle, au gré des expériences. À partir de ce qui pourrait ne sembler quun fait divers, Kathleen Winter nous propose une œuvre dune profonde beauté explorant le fondement même de notre identité et de nos sociétés. Qui sommes-nous et pourquoi sommes-nous obligés par la communauté à renoncer à nous-même, qui que nous soyons ? " -- 4e de couv.Par Julia London, Patricia Lavigne. 2011
" Enfant adoptée, Jane Aaron s'interroge sur ses origines. À la veille de se marier, la jeune institutrice décide de…
passer l'été à Cedar Springs, la ville de ses parents biologiques. Qui sont-ils ? Et pourquoi l'ont-ils abandonnée ? En attendant de trouver des réponses, Jane accepte de s'occuper des enfants d'Asher Price, un publicitaire accaparé par son métier qui a perdu sa femme dix-huit mois plus tôt. À mesure qu'elle apprivoise deux gamins perturbés et se rapproche de leur père, Jane enquête et découvre plus de secrets qu'elle ne l'escomptait. En viendra-t-elle à craindre la vérité et l'amour qu'elle éprouve pour Asher ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: One season of sunshine.Par Julia London, Beatrice Pierre. 2011
" Wyatt Clark est un époux comme toute femme en rêve : doux, attentionné, aimant. Macy le sait, elle a…
trouvé la perle rare, mais leur bonheur vacille lorsqu'on leur annonce une nouvelle incroyable : Finn Lockhart, le mari que Macy aimait éperdument, disparu depuis trois ans lors d'une mission en Afghanistan, est vivant et de retour à Cedar Springs ! La jeune femme, à la fois bouleversée et submergée de bonheur, est en proie à un terrible dilemme et réalise avec effroi qu'elle devra faire un choix décisif entre les deux hommes. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Summer of two wishes.Par Jill MacLean. 2010
An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new "girlfriend," and three…
relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are "tense." Adding to her misery, she still can't read well enough to escape from remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But with the help of a kindly substitute teacher, Prinny discovers that life can be full of possibilities - and poetry. Sequel to “The nine lives of Travis Keating”. Followed by “The hidden agenda of Sigrid Sugden”. Grades 3-6. 2010.Par Genevieve Graham. 2015
In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker, a soldier with Nova Scotia's 25th Battalion, meets Audrey Poulin, a lonely…
French artist, by chance and they fall in love. Danny is wounded in the battle of the Somme and the lovers find themselves building a new life in Halifax just as a new catastrophe threatens. Bestseller. 2015.Par Helen Simonson. 2010
Major Ernest Pettigrew of Edgecombe St. Mary leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by…
for generations: honour, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. His brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper. The Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more, but village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010.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.