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House Calls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost

House Calls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost
  • Author(s): Keith Billington
  • Location(s): Northwest Territories
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

A newly married and newly graduated pair of nurses immigrate to Canada (from the UK) and take over the operation of a nursing station in a remote northern village.

How The Light Gets In

How The Light Gets In
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching, and...

Hubris

Hubris
  • Author(s): P A Wilson
  • Location(s): Victoria BC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000

An abducted sex worker. A murdered stranger. Can a private investigator connect the dots and bring down a brutal gang? Vancouver, British Columbia. Charity Deacon knows her headstrong ways sometimes land her in trouble. But when the inexperienced PI...

Hummingbird

Hummingbird
  • Author(s): Tristan Hughes
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction

“What you could change and alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, and what I had tried very hard to believe in since.”Beside a lake in the northern...

I Married the Klondike

I Married the Klondike
  • Author(s): Laura Beatrice Berton
  • Location(s): Klondike, Yukon Territory
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1900s to 1930s

A young schoolteacher accepts a short contract to teach in post-gold rush Yukon, and ends up staying for 25 years.

In High Places

In High Places
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

As events bubbles to a scalding boil, leaders of two great nations fought in desperate secrecy to keep the lid on the world. Bartering, backstabbing, browbeating, bribing…and praying for a little more weight to throw on the delicate balance...

Indian Horse

Indian Horse
  • Author(s): Richard Wagamese
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he...

Indians on Vacation

Indians on Vacation
  • Author(s): Thomas King
  • Location(s): Greece, Canada, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Indigenous
  • Era(s): present day

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years earlier, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace Mimi’s long-lost uncle...

Inheritance

Inheritance
  • Author(s): Denise Kelly LeBlanc
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Your family has a huge responsibility, and they need you. Now. In all of her eighteen years, normal has never been a word you could apply to Jess Gardner’s life. She is a medium, making her living by communicating...

Jack of Kinrowan

Jack of Kinrowan
  • Author(s): Charles de Lint
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

A faceless gang of bikers on Wild Hunt through the streets of present-day Ottawa hurtles young Jacky Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land of Faerie. There, to her dismay, she is hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan,...

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