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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Margaret Craven's classic and timeless story of a young man's journey into the Pacific Northwest is as relevant today as ever.
Here amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems - a village so steeped in time that, according to Kwakiutl legend, it was founded by two brothers left on earth...
Author
Series
Karl Alberg mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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The quaint dramas of colorful locals turn dark indeed in this crime thriller set along Canada's Sunshine Coast by the Edgar Award–winning author.
Gordon Murphy has a Midas touch for business, but he's all thumbs when it comes to love. So Sergeant Karl Alberg isn't too concerned when Murphy sets his sights on Karl's girlfriend Cassandra. These days the happy couple share both a bed and a bed and breakfast. Besides, Alberg has some actual policing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In a small fishing village in British Columbia, twelve-year-old Primrose tries to be a matchmaker for her Uncle Jack, befriends Ked, a new foster child, tries to decide if she is willing to go to jail for her convictions, and together with Ked, publishesa cook book to raise money for the Fisherman's Aid. Includes recipes.
Author
Series
Molly Smith mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (302 pages)
Language
English
Description
Delany's intriguing series opener introduces young constable Molly Smith, who almost literally stumbles across a rare murder victim in peaceful Trafalgar, British Columbia. The deceased, Reg Montgomery, was a widely distrusted newcomer planning to develop a luxury resort outside the town, making for a long list of suspects. The community is further divided by Smith's mother's plans for a public memorial to American draft resisters who fled to Canada...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago a young girl by the name of Moonlight Smith went to her best friend Nicky Nowak?s house for a sleepover. Moonlight joined the family for breakfast the following morning and was then picked up by her mother. Shortly after, Mr. Nowak went for a walk. He was never seen again. Autumn has arrived on the mountains above Trafalgar, B.C., and the promise of winter is in the air. Constable Molly Smith is cuddled by the fireplace with Adam...
7) Dark roads
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down... and never be seen again. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer. One year...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests:...
Author
Series
From sea to sea volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Victoria, 1869. The ramshackle capital of British Columbia, the last colony in North America, where a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside the native Indians that vastly outnumber them. That peace is challenged when a mutilated body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American alienist whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, recently arrived from England,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (265 pages).
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends are in the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. enjoying a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river. It's Christmas Eve and the snow-storm of the decade has settled over the town. Constables Molly Smith and Dave Evans have a busy shift attending fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and...
12) Fall from grace
Author
Series
Karl Alberg mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Shoot!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) Still missing
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin,...
15) Alice, I think
Author
Series
Alice MacLeod diaries volume 1
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
17) Old Mother bear
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twenty-four-year-old grizzly bear gives birth to her last litter of cubs, then spends three years teaching them what they need to know to survive in their southern British Columbia home before they go off on their own. Includes facts about grizzlies and the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary.
18) Never knowing
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
Author
Series
Charlie Noble mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vii, 255 p. : ill, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
20) Pine Island home
Author
Series
Pine Island volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.
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