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Evening snow will bring such peace: a novel
Par David Adams Richards. 1990
Married for only 20 months, Cindi and Ivan Basterache separate after a fight. Ivan, always an outsider, feels trapped and…
powerless as others, motivated with good intentions, intervene in his life. Sequel to "Nights below Station Street". Strong language.Emily's quest (Seal books)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1927
Fall on your knees
Par Ann-Marie MacDonald. 1996
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary…
girls. Kathleen is a gifted singer preparing for an opera career; Frances is the bad girl, an incorrigible liar; Mercedes is an obsessive Catholic, trying to protect the flock; but it is Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. Canada Reads 2010. Co-winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.Dark jewels: a novel
Par Rita Donovan. 1990
Murdoch MacFarland was broken when his first wife and eldest son died. Now he struggles against the hardship and isolation…
that exist in his second marriage. Then, like a dark jewel, a buried memory finally surfaces and speaks. 1990.Each man's son (The new Canadian library)
Par Hugh MacLennan. 2003
Cape Breton Island. Dr. Daniel Ainslie yearns for a son - something he can never have. He comes to love…
young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie MacNeil and Archie, who deserted his family several years before to seek his fortune as a professional fighter. Now Archie returns, bitter and defeated, to wreak tragedy on his community. 1951.Downhill chance: A Novel
Par Donna Morrissey. 2002
In pre-Confederation Newfoundland, deeply spiritual Job Gale decides to enlist during World War II, leaving behind his wife, Sare, and…
two daughters, Clair and Missy. Job returns broken, disillusioned, and bearing a dark secret, and soon dies, as does Sare. Clair leaves her childhood home to teach and start her own family, growing apart from Missy and their uncle Sim. Only Clair's daughter Hannah, who refuses to be bound by the past, can avert more tragedy and bring about the reconciliation of her family. 2002.Courage in the storm
Par Thomas H Raddall. 1987
Cold clear morning
Par Lesley Choyce. 2002
After his childhood sweetheart Laura's drug-related death, Taylor Colby returns to their Nova Scotia coastal village to live once again…
with his noble but isolated boat-builder father. His mother, who has been battling cancer, attempts to reconcile with both her husband and son whom she deserted decades earlier. 2002.Blue water: a tale of the deep-sea fishermen (Formac Fiction Treasures Ser.)
Par Frederick William Wallace, Brook Taylor. 2006
First published in 1914, "Blue Water" is set in the early 1900s and traces the adventures of "Shorty" Westhaver from…
boyhood to young manhood, in the dangerous and often tragic world of the Grand Banks fishery. c2006.Best Maritime short stories
Par George Peabody. 1988
Constellations (Vintage contemporaries)
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. 1988.Blood ties
Par David Adams Richards. 1976
The love and strength of the MacDurmot family members cannot keep the best of their young people from leaving while…
the family home falls into the hands of outsiders. Set in New Brunswick. Strong language. 1985, c1976.Cape Breton Road
Par D. R MacDonald. 2000
It is the late 1970s, and nineteen-year-old Innis Corbett is deported from his home near Boston for car theft and…
returned to his mother's birthplace on Cape Breton Island to stay with his uncle Starr. Desperate to get away, Innis starts to grow a secret cash crop of marijuana and looks for a car to steal. When Starr's girlfriend comes to stay while fleeing another relationship, a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between the two men that leads ultimately to violence. 2000.Ash
Par David Walker. 1976
Soldier of fortune, member of the Canadian establishment, now wanted for murder, Ash is on the run in the New…
Brunswick bush. An exciting novel with marvellous descriptions of the Canadian woods. 1976.Annabel
Par Kathleen Winter. 2010
Coastal Labrador, 1968. A mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but…
both at once. Together the parents and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina, make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as Annabel - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2010.Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Alligator: A Novel
Par Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.An audience of chairs: a novel
Par Joan Clark. 2005
Moranna MacKenzie lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness. Highly creative, she plays the…
piano, sings, writes, sculpts, and bakes - all perfectly - but also behaves erratically and alienates her friends and family. Still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously, she then learns that one of them is about to get married. 2005.All the men are sleeping: collected fiction
Par D. R MacDonald. 2002
Short stories of Cape Breton Island that explore the misunderstanding between men and women, the nature of seduction and infidelity,…
and the heartache of longing. For a fisherman in "The flowers of Bermuda", time has not repaid the loss of his young son's life. In the title story, the compassion of a rural doctor imperils a horse and a woman the doctor once loved. Some strong language. 2002.The story of Anna Elisabeth, one of the settlers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In 1753 Lunenburg is a rocky hillside…
of forest, not the prepared homesteads she and her family had been expecting. With no shelter, no crops planted, and no experience at frontier life, how will she survive and thrive in her new home? c2010.