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Crocodiles and rivers (Novels for adult learners)
Par Don Sawyer. 1997
The story of Ross and Gordy, who work together at the mill, but come from very different worlds. They journey…
to Africa, which is the adventure of a lifetime for Gordy, but will Ross find the home he is looking for? 1997.Frozen tears (Novels for adult learners)
Par Don Sawyer. 1997
Laura is a survivor. From a childhood of cruelty, loss, and loneliness through the escape with her daughter from an…
abusive relationship, Laura has learned to live in a tough world. But can she ever let herself feel again? GRADE I BRAILLE.The scowling frog (Novels for adult learners)
Par Kate Ferris. 1997
Nathan and Pozzi have stolen something sacred, and the spirits are angry. At any moment, waves could sweep them out…
of their boat. There's something more -- both are in love with Alice, who is also in the boat. And there are only two life jackets. 1997.Three wise men (Novels for adult learners)
Par Kate Ferris. 1997
The mailbox (Novels for adult learners)
Par Kate Ferris. 1997
Helen Turner is a young and beautiful woman, married to a much older man. With one letter to a stranger,…
a bush pilot, she is about to begin a crisis in her life, forcing her to choose between the man she married and the man she loves.Still missing
Par Chevy Stevens. 2010
British Columbia realtor Annie O'Sullivan bitterly recounts to a therapist being kidnapped from an open house by a rapist and…
enslaved for a year in a remote cabin. As sessions continue, Annie learns shocking information about her captor's identity. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2010.Major Pettigrew's last stand
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.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 rainbow quilt (Livewire youth fiction)
Par Iris Howden. 2003
Amy and Aneeta are best friends in their Design course. When they are asked to sew squares for a quilt…
to hang in the town hall, they think it will be boring. But after local riots break out, the quilt takes on a new meaning. This book is part of the Livewire youth fiction series. Livewire youth fiction is a series of exciting stories about the issues, dramas and challenges of being young. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 7+ and interest age of 11+. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.Beyond the foothills
Par Essie Summers. 1976
After the unwelcome publicity aroused by a television interview, Marilla St. John decided to retreat to the country for a…
while until the fuss had died down. She was not prepared for the encounter with Rufus Sinclair, a confirmed bachelor who had heard that Marilla St. John was a determined husband-hunter. How could she convince him he was wrong? 1976.The forbidden valley (Harlequin romance ; #1731)
Par Essie Summers. 1978
Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl, who seemed to have run away from home and left her…
children. It just didn't seem possible -- although Phyl's rather forbidding brother-in-law Edmund Leigh was only too ready to believe the worst of her. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was. 1978.Touched by angels (Angels #3)
Par Debbie Macomber. 1995
The divinely inspired, if slightly dizzy trio of angels - Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy - have winged into New York…
City to answer three Christmas wishes, and teach a few lessons along the way. 2011, c1995.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.Runaway (Series Canada)
Par Paul Kropp. 1980
Kathy's father beats her, her best friend drives her crazy, and her boyfriend is getting too serious. For junior and…
senior high readers. High interest, low vocabulary book. Reading level, grade 4. Grade I braille. 1980. (Series Canada)Take off (Series Canada)
Par Sandra Gulland, Paul Kropp, Greg Ruhl. 1985
Dan knows that life is not easy for a runaway on his own, so there is no way that he…
will let his friend, Jimmy, go off alone. For junior and senior high readers. Reading level, grade 4. Grade I braille. (Series Canada)Nine lives (Series Canada)
Par Prem Omkaro. 1988
Cat has always been curious and her summer job at the resort makes it easy to snoop. But this time,…
Cat's snooping gets her in real trouble. Grades 5-8. High interest, low vocabulary book. Reading level, grade 3. Uncontracted braille. 1988. (Series Canada)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.What the heart keeps
Par Rosalind Laker. 1984
When orphan Lisa Shaw is sent to Canada as a "home girl", she meets a young Norwegian, Peter Hagen. They…
are destined to meet again. A tale of star crossed romance. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.Une rose pour Almira (J'ai lu. Pour elle ; #8234)
Par Barbara Cartland, Marie-Noëlle Tranchart. 2007