Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Punishment, his first novel since completing his Long Stretch trilogy, Scotiabank Giller-winner Linden MacIntyre brings us a powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason, in a small town shaken by a tragic death.
Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew...
Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Walker on the Cape is the first book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series and introduces Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Cree from Northern Alberta who is stationed in a small town on the eastern tip of Canada. He falls in love with the place, with a woman and with the lifestyle of Grand Bank Newfoundland.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
9) So much love
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Description
Catherine Reindeer vanishes from the parking lot outside the restaurant where she works. Her disappearance has affected everyone in the small town, and left the community shattered. At the heart of the novel is Catherine's own surprising story of resilience and recovery. The work of a local poet becomes a lifeline for Catherine, and helps her to persevere the darkest moments of being held captive.
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family. She feels the weight of her mother's unhappiness as her life takes her outside of the diner and the traditional customs. Then when a tragedy occurs at school, Su-Jen's life changes again. 2004.
Author
Series
Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
In 1936, Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues. In the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for "respectability" and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
13) Breaking silence
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
"When Staci was first shunted off to the backwater town of Silence, Maine, to live with her alcoholic mother, she thought her life was over. Silence had none of the amenities a typical teen in the twenty-first century considered essential: no cell serviceand barely any internet connectivity. But Staci soon learned that Silence was more than a town left behind by progress. The first family of Silence, the Blackthorns, liked the town that way. The Blackthorns...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request