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The Last Wild Boy is a dystopic story about Nora who lives in the walled city of Aahimsa, an idyllic community of girls and women working together to make a peaceful life free of the brutality of the outsiders. Nora and her friend Alice, the mayor's daughter, find an outsider baby abandoned within the city walls, and Nora starts to question whether the outsiders pose as much of a threat to her civilization as she's been taught. With the baby's life in danger, Nora must decide whether she's willing to give up everything she has to save him.

Twelve-year-old Kira loves to swim. But her parents, who adopted her as a baby, have forbidden her to go near the sea where they live on the north Atlantic coast. Frustrated by their rules, Kira decides to rebel and jumps into the icy waters. She is shocked by what she learns about herself. With the help of her friend Cody, Kira begins the search for her original family. She soon discovers why her adoptive parents were afraid to let her go into the sea.

William Andrews' first novel examines life in a small PEI community in the 1940s and 50s as changes, so common in the rest of the world, begin to take hold. Using a road as an allegory, he weaves a lyrical tale of simple country people, their struggles and their joys. The story is told through the eyes of a boy called Jake: he is the witness to life on the Hook Road and the events that change that life forever. In The Grand Change the people and the world they inhabit are richly and meticulously described.

Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island to live with her Aunt Laverne (Larry) after the loss of her parents. Her first night in her new home, Chloe is tormented by the loss of her mother and father and hides in the dark to speak to them. When she does, she unknowingly invites the attention of a ghostly boy who inhabits the oldest part of the farmstead. Terrified but intrigued, Chloe decides to uncover his history, setting her off on a set of adventures. When she does finally find the ghost boy's secret, she soon realizes they are similarly tormented.

Christian, is an eloquently wry and precocious university drop-out, who has never savoured the wonders of women or alcohol. A naturalist raised in central Canada, he arrives on PEI for a summer job in Barrisway National Park, and sets up camp on the beach. Lorne Elliott gloriously conjures the mischief and zaniness, the lovable rascals and lamentable rogues, of Island life behind the tourist posters. He deftly evokes the kindness and camaraderie of Islanders, and the Island's high-spirited revelry.

In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.

He realizes too late just how far away he is from home. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest, who comment on his plight by cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering comfort on his difficult journey.

In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture. And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold...

Mikael Dionne a seize ans, bientôt dix-sept. Il a quitté la Beauce pour une dérive montréalaise qui l'a conduit, après un vol à l'étalage raté, à devenir un dévot de Krishna. Quand il débarque dans son village natal vêtu en moine, le crâne rasé, il fait figure d'extraterrestre. C'est l'occasion de retrouver malgré lui son ancienne identité, son frère, sa parenté, ses amis, le curé de sa paroisse, qui critiquent son choix et cherchent à le ramener dans le « droit chemin ». Mais cette vie tracée d'avance peut-elle encore lui convenir ?

Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres. C'est là, entre les murs gris de l'abbaye, que trouva refuge, au quinzième siècle, un peintre hanté par le souvenir de celle qu'il aimait. C'est là, entre ciel et mer, que le retrouvera cinq cents ans plus tard une romancière qui cherche toujours le pays des livres. Ils se rencontreront sur les pages d'un calepin oublié sous la pluie.

"Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat. Racing to meet her deadline, she heads to Las Vegas, where she'll capture images of men who may die the next day--and where she'll confront an abuser from her past to force a reckoning. Accompanied by her husband, a celebrated novelist, and her best friend, a former CIA spook, Vivienne heads out into the Nevada desert in search of adrenaline, vengeance and the perfect shot.