Bøger om Ontario

Vintage postcards illustrate these stories of an earlier time in Sparrow Lake.

While the students blame the lack of security on campus for Sophias murder, Rosalie investigates Sophias life in search of a motive.

More than many figures in Canadian history, Laura Secord has come to represent courage and perseverance. During the War of 1812, she helped to avert disaster by warning the British of an imminent American attack, playing a prominent role in the survival of a nascent Canada.

Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn't the only place with big problems. This book holds a magnifying glass to the decline of rural life, the scourge of meth, and what happens when an entire town loses faith.

The Ontario landscape is dotted with places of worship. Behind each lie personal stories of exceptional individuals and historical events.

Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) is recognized as Ontarios "Father of Reforestation." Due his knowledge of forestry, vision, diligence, and perseverance in the face of opposition, Ontario was rescued from the ravages of environmental disasters. To date more than two billion trees have been planted, with more to come.

Marta Hendriks is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband's death in a house fire. Overcome, she collapses and has to be carried off the stage. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, and Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she's hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance. During one of her rare days off, relaxing for the first time since her husband's accident, something threatens her newfound peace. When Marta is caught in a sudden downpour, she dashes for the shelter of a subway station and spots someone doing the same. It is her husband. Marta fears she's losing her mind - or did she actually see him? Back home in Toronto, she struggles with her need for the truth at the precipice of madness.

Upper Canada, 1844. Nathan Elliott returns to the lakeside village of Wellington to be at his dying father's side. Within a few days, his brother reports that Nathan disappeared without a trace. Then Nathan's wife arrives in the village claiming that she can contact the dead.

After a fellow police officer is murdered, Sergeant-Detective Irina Drach and her partner Sergeant-Detective Hudson connect the crime with a seed bank raid in England. Soon it becomes apparent that highly organized abduction teams are scooping up the finest animal specimens from zoos, nature preserves, and the wild.

Toronto Detective Miranda Quin takes time off in the tropics and gets trapped in a sinister plot. Her partner, Detective David Morgan, is left alone to resolve the case of a beautiful corpse and ends up compromised in the mysterious Arctic. Islands, they learn, are an illusion. Everything connects, especially when murder is involved.

Toronto is truly a city of communities, and this is the only guide to the city's multicultural character, featuring profiles of more than 60 ethnic communities, including local histories, food, and art. Monuments, museums, and restaurants are identified, while maps and photographs of festival events help bring the city's varied communities to life.

Charley Scott is thrilled to be running a summer pop-up gallery in cottage country. But when her friend's husband is found dead, the investigation threatens the gallery's opening.

After being mistaken for the lead actor on the set of a Hollywood film, Chris assumes the identity of the actor and disconnects from his real life. Falling deeply into his newfound identity, he must grapple with his role as an imposter and whether he should extricate himself from reinvention.

In this partially illustrated early chapter book, two young friends get separated from their school field trip and end up exploring the sights, sounds and tastes of the big city.

When the body of a sixteen-year-old-girl is found at a wilderness lodge, Officer Kala Stonechild puts her vacation on hold to find the murderer.

Based on an undying love for their city, this book features the creative depiction of Canada's Capital city as perceived by the young people living in it, as well as a compilation of heartfelt and inspiring stories of locals who call the Capital city home.

Harbour must learn how to navigate life on the streets when her father doesn't return for her on their sailboat.

Legend has it that a paymaster lost his gold on Commissioners Road during the War of 1812, and Sam, Eadie, and Ben are determined to find it. Even though its been 200 years, the trio makes some progress, only to discover the mystery may be harder to solve than they anticipated.

A pandemic lockdown has twelfth-grader Kelsey Kendler stuck at home with her unstable substance-using mom and distant dad.

This book explores the relationship between mining and the communities it creates.