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The hangman (Good reads series)
Par Louise Penny. 2010
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On…
his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2010.Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
Par Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.Rose of no man's land
Par Michelle Tea. 2005
With a hypochondriac mother, an older sister who dreams of being on reality TV, and Mom's live-in, unemployed slacker boyfriend…
passing for a family, it's no wonder Trisha is a loner. Tiring of never leaving her bedroom, the 14-year-old makes a plan for the summer: meet someone and make a friend. That friend turns out to be chain-smoking Rose, the classic dangerous friend, who introduces Trisha to life on the edge. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2005.Racing home
Par Adele Dueck. 2011
It's 1908, and twelve year old Erik faces the challenges of adapting to pioneer life on the Canadian prairie, and…
understanding what's really going on in his family. Grades 5-8. 2011.La petite poule d'eau (Compact Ser. #No. 48)
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1980
La Poule d'eau est une contrée doucement sauvage située au Nord-Ouest du Manitoba. Sauvage par sa végétation et son climat,…
c'est toutefois un pays hautement humanisé, par la qualité d'amour, de solidarité et de mansuétude qui caractérise ses rares habitants. c1950, 1980.Missing (Good reads)
Par Frances Itani. 2011
Northern France, World War I. Luc Caron sees three airplanes in a dogfight, with one flipping over and the pilot…
falling to his death. In 1928, the Greenwoods of Canada, whose pilot son has been missing for 11 years, receive a package from England. How is the mystery of the missing pilot solved, bringing peace to Luc and to the pilot’s parents? Based on a true story. High interest, low vocabulary. 2011.Money boy
Par Paul Yee. 2011
Chinese immigrant Ray Liu is having a tough time getting grades that please his father, speaking English, and connecting to…
the other Chinese kids at his school who seem to have adjusted more easily. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, he’s kicked out and ends up in downtown Toronto, where he gets robbed, beaten up, and seduced. Soon Ray has to decide if, to survive, he could sell himself for sex. If no one gets hurt, why should anyone care? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2011.Fé aime Fé ((Titan +).)
Par Amélie Dumoulin. 2015
C'est un peu le chaos autour de Fé présentement : dans sa famille, dans sa tête, dans son coeur surtout.…
En fait, si elle cherche ce qui la définit, tout ce qui lui vient en tête, c'est une équation simple mais non résolue : Fé M Fé . Une fille qui se demande qui elle est et qui elle aime. Une fille qui aime une fille. C'est simple... ou c'est compliqué? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2015.Home invasion (Good reads)
Par Joy Fielding. 2011
A noise wakes Kathy Brown from a dream where she was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend, who…
was much more exciting than her husband Jack is. Hearing whispers, she gets up only to feel a gun at her head - two men are in the house, forcing Kathy and her husband into a living nightmare where Kathy also faces her real feelings about her husband. The outcome surprises everyone, most of all Kathy herself. Some descriptions of violence. High interest/low vocabulary book. Winner of the 2013 Golden Oak Award. 2011.Easy money (Good reads)
Par Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2010
The author will show you how to make your money work for you. Budgeting, saving, and getting your debt paid…
off have never been so easy to understand or to do. 2010.Cool water
Par Dianne Warren. 2010
Juliet, Saskatchewan. Her inhabitants include the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager…
and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2010.Holding still for as long as possible
Par Zoe Whittall. 2009
Trapped somewhere between growing up and being grown-ups, three twentysomethings hide behind excessive drinking and partying, and use text messages…
to relay their emotions. Meet Billy, a former teen pop starlet who suffers from severe panic attacks; Josh, a paramedic whose ability to patch up injured patients parallels his inability to repair his own emotional damages; and Amy, a rich kid trying to live the Bohemian indie life while dealing with her first broken heart. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.A mother's wish (Wed in the west #1916)
Par Karen Templeton. 2008
Winnie Porter couldn't forget the child she'd given up for adoption all those years ago, or the wonderful family that…
had taken him in. Now it was finally time to see her son one last time. Still reeling from his wife's untimely death, the last thing Aidan Black needed to deal with was the unwed mother who brought his beloved Robbie into the world. Especially when she was all grown up into a beautiful, vivacious young woman who'd immediately drawn his boy into her spell - not to mention Aidan himself. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2008. (Wed in the west)A beauty
Par Connie Gault. 2015
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone, a young Finnish woman in…
a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the eighteen-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. 2015.The nesting dolls: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery (Joanne Kilbourn mystery)
Par Gail Bowen. 2010
A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the…
same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010. (A Joanne Kilbourn mystery)Happy ever after (Bride quartet. #4.)
Par Nora Roberts. 2010
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmeline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together. While helping thousands of…
happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, three of the four women have all found love themselves - but workaholic Parker remains resolutely single. Her business is her life and she devotes all her energies to it. But as she is forced to re-evaluate her friendships, Parker finds that someone is about to divert her focus. 2010. (Bride quartet ; 4)Totally Joe (The misfits Ser.)
Par James Howe. 2005
As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school,…
and the challenges of being a gay teenager. Grades 5-8. 2007, c2005.Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
Par Edeet Ravel. 2008
When Maya and Rosie meet, their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors,…
but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother's past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents' haunted world. A novel about the strength and nature of friendship, the weight of the secrets we keep, and whether or not we are ever able to truly live beyond the past. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2008.Under this unbroken sky
Par Shandi Mitchell. 2009
Western Canada, 1938. Ukrainian farmer Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family, who have been living with his sister Anna, after…
a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. Channelling the great inner power that enabled him to survive drought, starvation, war, and Stalin, Teodor farms the land and watches his family heal and strengthen. But their hopes are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband returns with a plan that threatens to take away everything they've built. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009.Out of the pocket
Par Bill Konigsberg. 2014
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start…
to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.