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Dark Waters

Dark Waters
  • Author(s): Toni Anderson
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Since her rocky childhood and its abrupt, brutal ending, schoolteacher Anna Silver hasn’t given her trust easily. But when her estranged father gets in over his head—again—and winds up dead, his last message to Anna is as clear as...

Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
  • Author(s): Toni Anderson
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Sergeant Holly Rudd arrives in the coastal community of Bamfield after local divers discover a body with a knife jutting from its chest in the waters of Barkley Sound. As she investigates the crime, Holly soon realizes the sleepy...

Bow Grip

Bow Grip
  • Author(s): Ivan E Coyote
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life.

The Ice Master

The Ice Master
  • Author(s): Jennifer Niven
  • Location(s): Arctic, Siberia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned...

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
  • Author(s): Jennifer Niven
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the...

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Velma Wallis
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Prehistoric

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe...

City of the Lost

City of the Lost
  • Author(s): Kelley Armstrong
  • Location(s): Yukon
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to...

The Republic of Love

The Republic of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Shields
  • Location(s): Winnipeg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There’s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has...

Along the Infinite Sea

Along the Infinite Sea
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Florida, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/1930s

Decadent and evocative storytelling at its very best., by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, Beatriz Williams 1966, Florida Pepper Schuyler is the kind of woman society loves and loves to talk about – a dazzling being who men watch across...

The Haunting of L.

The Haunting of L.
  • Author(s): Howard Norman
  • Location(s): Churchill, Halifax
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Across Canada, Linn has been arranging and photographing gruesome accidents for the private...

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