Action and adventure fiction

  • Shades of Red An Eagle Glen Trilogy Book

    Creator

    dyer, kc

    Abstract

    After the success of Seeds of Time and Secret of Light, kc dyer returns with Shades of Red, the final instalment in the Eagle Glen Trilogy. Darrell is back in the twenty-first century and back at Eagle Glen school. But her last trip through time was disastrous: her arch-enemy, Conrad Kennedy, slipped through with Darrell and her friends … and apparently met his demise. But when the gang travels to the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Darrell discovers that Conrad may have survived.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Seeds of Time An Eagle Glen Trilogy Book

    Creator

    dyer, kc

    Abstract

    Thirteen-year-old Darrell Connor is a troubled girl, still haunted by the motorcycle accident that took her father’s life and part of her leg three years ago. She is not pleased when her worried mother sends her to board at Eagle Glen School for the summer. But there is a sense of mystery at the school that appeals to Darrell, and as she investigates, she finds adventure and begins to form a few tentative friendships. When she stumbles upon a passage through time, she begins to wonder - is it possible to change her own past?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Secret of Light An Eagle Glen Trilogy Book

    Creator

    dyer, kc

    Abstract

    Short-listed for the 2004 Chocolate Lily Book Award Darrell Connor is back for another term at Eagle Glen, but is shocked to find that along with her friends Brodie and Kate, her nemesis, Conrad Kennedy, has enrolled at the school. The memory of her recent visit to medieval Scotland is still fresh, and when Darrell and her dog, Delaney, investigate an abandoned lighthouse, they discover another route into the past. Lost in the magical beauty of Renaissance Italy, Darrell meets a young artist with fiery ambition named Leonardo Da Vinci.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Crime Where the Nights are Long Canadian Stories of Crime and Adventure from the Golden Age of Storytelling

    Creator

    Skene-Melvin, David

    Abstract

    The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards, recited and were listened to. Through their countless tales of adventure and derring-do they brought romance and colour to the lives of those who could do no more than dream. This was the age of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Come Looking for Me A Novel

    Creator

    Cooper, Cheryl

    Abstract

    In Come Looking for Me, a mysterious young English woman named Emily risks a crossing of the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for the promise of a new adventure in Canada. But she never arrives. Captured by Captain Trevelyan, a man as cold-blooded as his frigate is menacing, Emily is held prisoner aboard the USS Serendipity. Seeking to save herself, she makes a desperate escape overboard in the midst of a raging sea battle and is rescued by the British crew of HMS Isabelle.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Yaroslaw's Treasure A Novel

    Creator

    Petriw, Myroslav

    Abstract

    Winner of the 2002 Anna Pidruchney Award For New Writers On a visit to Ukraine to retrieve a family heirloom secretly buried by his grandfather during the Second World War, Yaroslaw, a Ukrainian-Canadian university student, stumbles into a world full of spies and secret organizations, peril and political intrigue. His discovery of the hidden cache yields clues to the location of a fabled lost treasure-the greatest in all Europe.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Shadow Riders

    Creator

    Bayle, B.J.

    Abstract

    In 1874, after their father is wounded by hard men who have stolen a number of mares and Smokey, a prized stallion, sixteen-year-old Rob McCann and his adopted Native brother, Luke, ride frantically to Fort Ellice, Manitoba, in the vain expectation that the horse rustlers have stopped there. Learning that a new force called the North-West Mounted Police has come west, the brothers continue south to locate them and ask for help. The NWMP commander, Colonel George French, desperately attempts to have the boys escorted home.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • Minerva's Voyage

    Creator

    Kositsky, Lynne

    Abstract

    Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Robin Starveling, aka Noah Vaile, is scooped off the streets of seventeenth-century Bristol, England, and dragged onboard a ship bound for Virginia by the murderous William Thatcher, who needs a servant with no past and no future to aid him in a nefarious plot to steal gold. Starveling fits the bill perfectly since he lives nowhere and has no parents. Aboard the ship, Starveling makes friends with a young cabin boy, Peter Fence.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • The Deadly Conch Tara Trilogy

    Creator

    Narsimhan, Mahtab

    Abstract

    After the conclusion of The Silver Anklet, Taras triumphant return to Morni is short-lived. Taras deceased former stepmother, Kali, seeks revenge through her daughter, Layla. And so begins a series of carefully orchestrated events to cast suspicion on Tara: a dead dog in the village temple, contaminated well water, and whispers that Tara is still possessed. Layla fuels the villagers blind superstitions and fears. Soon all of Morni is against Tara, even her own family. Death seems to be the only way to stop her evil stepsister. Tara turns to Lord Yama and his deadly conch for help.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • The Silver Anklet Tara Trilogy

    Creator

    Narsimhan, Mahtab

    Abstract

    What if the only way to get rid of your worst enemy was to sacrifice your brother?When hyenas snatch Taras brother, Suraj, and two other children from the local fair in Morni, Tara and her newfound companions decide to rescue them on their own. Tara soon discovers that Zarku, her nemesis with the third eye, is back and intent on revenge.A deadly game of hide and seek ensues, and Tara and her companions must work together to survive. But it is soon clear that Zarku is only after Tara; the others are dispensable.Should Tara risk the lives of her friends?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié