Action and adventure fiction

  • Murder on a queen : Pat St. James mystery, book 4

    Creator

    Simpson, John

    Cummings, Robert

    Abstract

    Sequel to 'The Rent Boy Murders' It’s trouble in paradise for homicide detectives Pat St. James and Hank Capstone. After four years as Pat’s partner, Hank wants to move on from Homicide. Sensing the friendship might be about to implode, Pat’s and Hank’s husbands book the four of them a vacation on the gay-friendly cruise liner Queen Mary II. But what’s supposed to be a relaxing holiday soon turns deadly. The wife of a wealthy hotel magnate has enlisted her lawyer’s help in relieving her husband of the hotel chain and the money that comes along with it—and all of them are on board.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    USA

    Dreamspinner Press

    Not specified
  • B.J. Bayle's Historical Fiction 4-Book Bundle Red River Crossing / Shadow Riders / Battle Cry at Batoche / Perilous Passage

    Creator

    Bayle, B.J.

    Abstract

    This special four-book collection features stories of bravery and courage about early settlers and their relationships with the indigenous peoples of Canada. B.J. Bayle's young adult fiction brings Canada's past alive on the page. Includes: Red River Rising In 1813, Angus, a young Scot, and his family endure hardships as they attempt to start a new life in Canada. As they struggle to survive, they find themselves caught up in the rivalry between two fur-trading empires.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • The Adventures of Mademoiselle Mac 2-Book Bundle Mac in the City of Light / Mac on the Road to Marseille

    Creator

    Ward, Christopher

    Abstract

    Mackenzie — just “Mac,” thanks — is a regular fourteen-year-old girl, until a school trip to Paris leaves her tangled up with a cast of shadowy characters, crazy cabbies, and … are those real-life gargoyles? That’s just the beginning for Mac and her zany friends, whose adventures whisk them all around France. From a dizzying encounter on top of Notre Dame Cathedral to a cutthroat race to Marseille (try to steer around the sheep), Mac’s adventures have only begun!

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • The Little Jane Silver 2-Book Bundle Little Jane Silver / Little Jane and the Nameless Isle

    Creator

    Rotstein, Adira

    Abstract

    Presenting both of Little Jane Silver's piratical adventures in one special bundle! Little Jane Silver is the granddaughter of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on her parents' ship, she vows to become a real pirate. As her ship is pursued by a mysterious pirate hunter, and on her own for the first time, Little Jane must grow up fast and find the courage to undergo the most important test of her young life: a quest to save her family.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Uprising A Novel

    Creator

    Bland, Douglas L.

    Abstract

    A surprise attack on the nation’s military bases and power stations sends the Armed Forces scrambling. When impoverished, disheartened, poorly educated, but well-armed aboriginal young people find a modern revolutionary leader, they rally with a battle cry of "Take Back the Land!" Theirs is a fight to right the wrongs inflicted on them by "the white settlers."They know they are too small to take on the entire country, but they don’t need to.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Little Jane and the Nameless Isle A Little Jane Silver Adventure

    Creator

    Rotstein, Adira

    Abstract

    Little Jane encounters treachery and adventure on her voyage to the Nameless Isle in search of her parents’ buried treasure. Second book in the Little Jane Silver Adventure series. Only two people have ever survived a trip to the Nameless Isle: Long John Silver the Second and Bonnie Mary Bright, the parents of aspiring pirate Little Jane Silver.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Me n Len Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940

    Creator

    Pope, Richard

    Broadfoot, Neil

    Abstract

    Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life in the backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the decades before the chainsaw and the outboard motor became the common sounds in this beautiful region of central Canada. The main character is a grizzled and lovable 82-year-old trapper and woodsman named Len who takes the reader through the adventures in his memory to meet the people of his past.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Not specified
  • Passiontide A Novel

    Creator

    Pearson, Brian E.

    Abstract

    David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably. He will be flung headlong into a journey of discovery that leads him to Canada’s rugged West Coast, a journey of loss and deliverance long overdue. There, in the midst of a spirited pioneer people, David veers into the tangled realms of love and passion, and stares even into the jaws of death. This unpredictable pilgrimage of the soul makes no guarantees and offers no safe haven. He will never be the same again.

    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Dundurn

    Not specified