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Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be, and delivering babies safely into the world. But when her life takes a nosedive, Clara realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over. On a tiny, remote Canadian island, Clara becomes Sara Livingston, a writer seeking solitude.
Author
Series
Guardians of the North volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With the magnificent Canadian frontier and the formation of the North-West Mounted Police as the backdrop, the GUARDIANS OF THE NORTH series from Alan Morris has found wide appeal among both men and women readers. Following in his family's excellent writing tradition, Alan has joined Gilbert and Lynn with this strong historical fiction series of his own. In Bright Sword of Justice, the trail of a violent gang leads Hunter Stone and the Mounties to...
64) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
65) Heart of valor
Author
Series
Guardians of the North volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Together they fight a dangerous enemy. Can their hearts of valor prevail?Hunter Stone and the North-West Mounted Police are faced with establishing themselves as the law on the rugged Canadian frontier. They discover that an evil trader, Armand Sweet, has been smuggling shipments of whisky into the North-West Territories, and Sweet becomes the focus of the Mounties' relentless search.Reena O'Donnell has continued her work as a young missionary among...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
67) The lost letters
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Norfolk, 1940: Sylvia's husband Howard has gone off to war, and she is struggling to raise her two children alone. Her only solace is her beach hut in Wells-Next-The-Sea, and her friendship with Connie, a woman she meets on the beach. The two women form a bond that will last a lifetime, and Sylvia tells Connie something that no-one else knows: about a secret lover... and a child. Canada, present day: When Martha's beloved father dies, he leaves...
68) Mermaid Inn
Author
Series
Matchmaker Bay volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Abbott has a problem--actually, make that a lot of problems. And they're all going to get worse the moment her toes hit the sand in Matchmaker Bay. Once a blissful summer escape, now the tiny town just reminds Eve of loss. Inheriting her aunt's beloved Mermaid Inn is the only reason Eve is coming back. She's definitely not ready to handle nosy neighbors, extensive renovations, or the discovery that a certain heartbreaker still lives down the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, [the novel] depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through...
71) Caged eagles
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his Japanese Canadian family are evacuated from their village near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and held in an internment camp where he struggles to balance being Japanese enough and Canadian enough to get along with everyone.
72) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Listen! For the song of Owen Thorskgard has a second verse. Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone. His two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. And though Siobhan McQuaid was the first bard in a generation, she managed to forge a role for herself and herald...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she'd long...
74) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom
75) The wild wood
Author
Series
Brian Froud's faerielands volume 2
Publisher
Orb
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Eithnie is a young painter who is acclaimed by the art world, until the critics start noticing that her work has lost the animating passion that had set her apart from the crowd. She returns to her cabin in Canada's remote woods, hoping to find a place where she can seek solitude and focus on her art.
At first, Eithnie's muse remains elusive, but then, beautiful and disturbing creatures start slipping into her sketches unbidden. The following days...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver's Chinatown. Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch...
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two women, one English and one French, form an unlikely friendship in 1753 Acadia.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lexie Kowalsky, a runaway bride from a reality TV show, hops a float plane for Sandspit, British Columbia. Sharing her flight is Sean Knox, new star of the Seattle Chinooks, the hockey team her father coaches. Sean knows this could spell trouble for his career, but the chemistry is too strong to ignore"--
Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television's hottest...
Author
Series
Saskatchewan saga volume 3
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Each novel in Ruth Glover's Saskatchewan Saga is filled with enchanting characters, surprising plots, and fascinating historical detail. Set in the late 1800s, the stories introduce Scottish and English emigrants who bravely journey to the wild Canadian frontier. In Journey to Bliss, Glover's third book in the saga, Tierney Caulder loses Robbie Dunbar, the man she loves, when he leaves Scotland for Canada. When Anne Fraser, her best friend, is attacked...
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