Fiction, World Literature / Canada
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First and Ten
by Gary J. Kirchner
What do you do when your first season as head coach has been a disaster? If you are Arne Viimets, a brilliant but controversial iconoclast who likes to discuss football strategy with his dog, you ignore the advice of your alumni, your coaching ...
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Faites pas de bruit, 'y a un mort
by Madeleine Champagne
Qu’est-ce qui peut inciter sept générations de Blanchet à choisir un métier triste à mourir aux yeux du commun des mortels? Quelles sont leurs motivations fondamentales? La morosité ou la vitalité? L’appât du gain ou un souci insatiable de servir le ...
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Pacing the Sidelines
by Gary J. Kirchner
Arne Viimets is not a typical coach. Kevin Willister is not a typical player. This is not a typical football story. Arne Viimets has a passion for opera, he owns a dog named Chopin, and he quotes Thoreau at dinner parties. He also happens to have a ...
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Wind on the Sounds
A Novel Set in the Yacht Race Around Vancouver Island Canada by Barbara Wyatt
A heartwarming tale of a woman with a difficult past and fears who steps outside her comfort zone into one of the toughest yacht races in North America. When Rebecca Dunbar agreed to join the land crew for the Van Isle 360 yacht race, she never ...
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Too Soon Old
Too Late Smart by Bev Christensen
Now in her nineties, a woman reflects on the seminal decision she made, to flee an abusive husband in Vancouver and take her little boy to live with her on the remote, northern farm that her late parents had created from the wilderness. As she ...
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Atoned in Truth
by B.P. Fletcher
When Lou Brandon retires as the only constable of a small Manitoba town, his life takes on a comfortable but aimless routine. That changes when he slowly becomes friends with the new Catholic priest, Peter Wilson. As the two struggle with life, ...
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Shuniah-Ogama
Money Boss by Robert Sanderson Trudeau
In 1976, John Rager, the newly arrived Indian Affairs Nakina District commerce officer lives alone in a rooming house with a deep secret. He soon discovers that many other people within the agency have secrets – in a district with mostly fly-in ...
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Foothills Justice
by Nelson Riis
When game warden Luke Dutton hears a gunshot while he’s out repairing fencing on his ranch in Alberta’s foothills, he has no idea that single shot is going to set into motion events that will turn his world upside down. The more he discovers, the ...
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A Pocketful of Starlight
by Rubyha McKenzie
A Pocketful of Starlight is a collection of twenty-three vignettes of the human condition, beautifully supported by the magical water-colours of Denise Williams. Some are wrapped in the genre of fairy tale, and the trappings of times past; some ...
