Bøger om Canada

These aren't the vampires you know.Sixteen years have passed since the corrupt Council of the First was purged. Since then, the Nash'terel, shapeshifting essence vampires from a distant world, have resumed their quiet lives on Earth, hiding their true nature from their human prey.In small town Ontario, Travis lives with his adoptive grandpas, dividing his time between school and hockey practice. Everyone, including Travis, thinks he's an ordinary Canadian teen, until a series of uncontrolled shapeshifts and a growing telekinetic talent reveal his Nash'terel heritage. Having "superpowers" sounds great, until he has to put his dream of NHL stardom on hold and move across the country to train them.He may not be happy, but he's going to need control of those powers in order to survive. Someone has put a bounty on dashkra, the alien mineral that all Nash'terel carry inside them. While Travis struggles to adjust to his new existence, his grandpas and their contacts must work to find out who has turned their kind into prey-yet again.

This riveting, romantic antihero thrill ride will leave you gasping for breath with every turn of the page until the last sentence binds you in its spell.

Catherine Owen, from Vancouver, BC, is the author of fifteen collections of poetry and prose. Her work has won and been nominated for awards and has been toured across Canada 12 times. She edits, hosts the series 94th Street Trobairitz, and runs the podcast Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws from her home in Edmonton, AB.

Go ahead. Shoot the messenger. See what happens. USA Today Bestselling Series! The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child Reacher sent a messenger. They stopped him with two bullets. An unidentified man breaches all security and is executed by a skilled assassin on FBI Special Agent Kim Otto's doorstep. In his pockets she finds an advanced encrypted cell phone. Nothing else. Kim arranges to extract the body and removes it to a private morgue for secret autopsy. None of the man's biometrics match the databases. His identity remains concealed. With nothing else to go on, questions multiply. Kim absolutely needs to know. Who was this guy? Why was he trying to reach her? Who killed to stop him? What will they do next? As the bodies pile up, Kim's search leads her to Jack Reacher's former lover in Lee Child's Make Me. Michelle Chang knows Reacher well enough to be reliable, but Chang's explanations are cryptic. When Kim presses harder for intel, Chang bolts. The deadly investigation leads Kim from Detroit to Canada's treacherous Niagara Falls region where expert killers and powerful government agents are not bulletproof-but Jack Reacher is. Lee Child Gives Diane Capri Two Thumbs Up!"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." -Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including The Killing Floor, Never Go Back, and Better Off Dead. The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and more: "Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world." -David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers "Expertise shines on every page." -Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President and MWA Grand Master Readers Love the Hunt for Jack Reacher Series and Diane Capri: "All Child fans should give it a try!" Award winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again in another Blockbuster Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Novel

In the late 1970s, deep in the heart of Southwestern Ontario's Tobacco Belt, a madcap crew of summer students learns what it means to work on a tobacco farm. Each finds their own way to cope with the physical and mental challenges to get through the season.Johnny Sandleaves is a Canadian coming-of-age novel showcasing a mix of dark humour and gritty reality while providing a colourful social snapshot of the Old World circumstances shaping the families who moved to this burgeoning corner of Canada. Relatable in its banter and abounding with eccentric characters, Johnny Sandleaves peels back the dramatic layers of how an eclectic crew of tobacco harvesters on Peter DeVreker's farm found themselves where they are - and why, with all of life's possibilities, they ended up working in tobacco.

Familiar Monsters of the Flood is a tight, emotional, and stunning debut collection of poems. Tia McLennan's mastery of metaphor and concise word choice packs a punch in these poems about intergenerational connection, motherhood, grief, ecology and memory. The poems in Familiar Monsters of the Flood speak to each other through an invisible connective tissue that weaves together dream space, loss, childhood memory, motherhood, the domestic-gothic, medical-speak, and life's inevitable bureaucracies. These poems share an uneasiness and a foreboding. In these pages it becomes impossible to distinguish between the grief in losing a father, in losing multiple pregnancies and in losing the planet as we know it to our own destruction. Throughout the deluge of loss, Tia McLennan's stunning debut collection of poetry is grounded in wonder, the surreal, and the hope gleaned from those peculiar moments that can stop us in our tracks and, for a moment, make us fully present.

"Inuit games have been played all over the Arctic for a very long time. They are played for fun, to practise survival skills, and as exercise." Discover everything about Inuit games in Arviat, Nunavut! Practice skipping stones, building iglus, and challenge your friends to a race. Test your skills in the blindfold and jumping games and learn to play Inuit baseball. Written by the late Inuit Elder Donald Uluadluak Sr. and accompanied by the author's original illustrations, this book is a fun introduction to Inuit games.

The Spartan Chronicles is a collection of stories about places, people, and events which occurred in the late 1950's while Thomas Frood, retired mathematics professor, was working for Spartan Air Services in the Canadian North as a radio operator and weather observer.

The team is back again. Chantal Bluspri is suffering from PTSD, her boyfriend is at his wit's end trying to help her. Her friends decide to take a vacation with Chantal to Banff, Alberta, but things take a turn for the worse when the vehicle breaks down in a storm in the middle of nowhere. They spot a hotel, which is not all it seems. All goes well until the nightmares begin. Can they escape?

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Under the Big Oak Tree carefully navigates readers through delicate storylines that embrace the unexpected, the joyful, the messy, and the fleeting moments in life. The poems tiptoe (and sometimes stumble) into the often-painful beauty in personal growth, touching on themes of dating, family, mental health, heartache, hope, and love. With a new, yet familiar voice, Under the Big Oak Tree employs a free-verse style complemented with a spoken-word flair, ensuring a captivating reading experience from cover to cover.

En ønskebog for alle, som drømmer om vildmarksliv. Bogen er et gensyn med skov, flod og stilhed, jagtmarker og fiskevande, eventyrlyst og naturglæde, og en stor natur, der er under forandring. Det er en beretning fra Nordcanada, der fortsætter tyve år efter forfatterens første kanofærd gennem et af verdens mest øde områder (beskrevet i bogen "Afsted"). 120 sider, rigt illustreret med flotte helsides farvebilleder."Solen skinnede varmt fra en skyfri, blå himmel, og ude på søen lå et par ænder og vuggede. Luften var klar og ren. Ikke en vind rørte sig. Røgen fra bålet steg lodret op. På risten over bålet boblede gryden med bjørnehjerte, kød og fedt..." - Citat fra bogen MIN UNGDOMS VILDMARK.