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La fille blanche
Par Joan Clark, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2002
Une enfant flottant à travers les glaces dans son panier d'osier, survivante du Titanic, est recueillie par des pêcheurs. Ce…
récit s'intéresse au sort de la rescapée ainsi qu'à celui de plusieurs générations de membres de sa famille. Cadres successifs : Terre-Neuve, l'Angleterre et l'Irlande. 2002.Last summer in Louisbourg
Par Claire Mowat. 1998
While working a summer job in the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, fifteen-year-old…
Andrea learns a family secret as well as Canadian history. For junior high readers. 1998.Caplin Scull: chronicles from a Newfoundland outport on the eve of confederation
Par M. T Dohaney. 2017
Meet the unique people of Caplin Scull, a small village on Newfoundland's sea-ravaged east coast, where life is hard and…
the times are changing as the province of Newfoundland is about to join the nation of Canada. Like the houses, those who live here must be sturdy, courageous and determined, able to withstand a rugged life in a world that still keenly feels the pull of its Irish ancestors and the influence of the powerful Catholic Church. In that place of hardship there is also love, endurance, spirituality, and humour. The folks here have figured out how to cope through the wry acceptance of their lot in life: work hard, die hard, and go to hell afterward. 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.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.Glass voices
Par Carol Bruneau. 2007
Lucy and Harry Caines lose their house and first child in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and carve out a life…
for themselves and their second child in a survivor's village of ramshackle houses, gambling, moonshine, and illegal fishing. Fifty-two years later, with Lucy's son married to the daughter of her worst enemy and her grandson Robert quitting school to go on a hippie pilgrimage, the family is forced to work together when Harry suffers a severe stroke, and gains a new perspective on the past. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. 2007.Frybread
Par Ferguson Plain. 2003
Dakota's friends had never seen frybread before, so Dakota explains how it is made. Frybread, scone, bannock, or gullet -…
there are as many ways to call it as there is to make it. 2003.Just beneath my skin
Par Darren Greer. 2014
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness…
begets violence, violence begets despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister’s son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father’s advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life - working a gruelling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer - does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost. c2014.Keri
Par Jan Andrews. 1996
Upset that her father sold their fishing boat, and unwilling to let go of her family's traditional way of life,…
Keri retreats into fantasies about an old story of an abandoned young girl and a beached whale at Riley's Cove in 1762. When Keri and her brother find a beached whale in the cove, their struggle to save it helps her accept the changes in her family's life. Grades 5-8. 1996.January, February, June or July
Par Helen Porter. 1988
This novel examines Heather Novak's relationship with her family, her peers and the young man who, as her father did…
years ago, leaves her to face alone the painful process of growing up. Some strong language. 1988 winner of the CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award. For senior high and adult readers. c1988.Catching the light
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.For sure
Par Robert Majzels, France Daigle. 2013
"For Sure" is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a…
defense and an illustration of the Chiac (French Acadian) language. It is also the continuing story of Terry and Carmen, familiar to us from previous works, their children Etienne and Marianne, and all those who gravitate around the Babar, the local bar in Moncton - the Zablonskis, Zed, Pomme - artists and ordinary people who question their place in the world from a distinct point of view that is informed by their geography, and by their history, politics, and culture. 2013. Uniform title: Pour sûr.Anna from away: a novel
Par D. R MacDonald. 2012
When Anna Starling flees a dissolving marriage in California to save herself and her artistic career in Cape Breton, her…
life intersects with that of Red Murdock, a cabinetmaker who has recently lost the great love of his life. Surrounded by old ghosts and echoes of those who once lived in this isolated, now depleted community, Anna and Murdock discover that the present is inextricably linked with the past, and that both can lead to moral dilemmas. Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.Glass boys: A Novel
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.Down the Coaltown Road
Par Sheldon Currie. 2002
During World War Two, Italy's decision to join forces with the Germans caused Canada to round up Italians and put…
them in camps. Coaltown, Cape Breton, was the location of one such camp. When one Italian man escapes the camp, his actions have far-reaching consequences, touching everyone in his life. 2002.Hope in the desperate hour: a novel
Par David Adams Richards. 1996
Richards portrays a small New Brunswick farming community from the 1950s to the present, through the experiences of the Shackle…
family. Garth, the former hockey player, Neil the academic, and Reggie the soldier reflect the conflicts between their home and the nearby Indian reserve and university town. 1988 Governor General's Award for English fiction. 1996.His Majesty's Yankees (New Canadian library ; #133)
Par Thomas H Raddall. 1942
Galore: a novel
Par Michael Crummey. 2009
A portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate…
and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. The action is propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through the generations. 2009.Fairy ring
Par David Homel, Martine Desjardins, Fred A Reed. 2001
In 1895, Arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder lets his house in Nova Scotia to the recently married Clara Weiss, who…
is about to become the compass of a social circle far too intimate for her own good. Meanwhile, the captain's claustrophobic ship is trapped in the polar ice. A novel of personal relations and vast desires. 2001. Uniform title: Cercle de Clara.February
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.