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A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki Elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick...
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Hazel Micallef mysteries volume 3
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2012.
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Hazel must overcome the buggling of the First Nations reserve police officers when a man is found dead behind a cigarette shop there.
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
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She's cared for her siblings as best she could . . . but is it enough? Instead of the new life she and her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With the help of her older brother, and trust in God, Angela is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted. As the youngsters grow, the questions and challenges intensify....
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2014.
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Even though it's now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves), and Chatham, Canada, are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Canadian West series volume 6
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Christine is recovering from a broken heart and finds solace in helping her adored brother Henry settle into married life. The "call of the North" tugs at her, making one young man's interest in her doubly attractive--but also filling her with uncertainty. Is Christine willing to give up her dreams of living in the North and let God help her choose a lifelong love?
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Dragon slayer of Trondheim volume 1
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2014.
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In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
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2012.
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.
12) Never say die
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Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic
13) Shi-shi-etko
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Shi-shi-etko is leaving in four days to attend the residential school which is a school where native children were sent to learn English and learn about European culture and religion. She spends the last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world and listening to her mother, father and grandmother share valuable teachings that they want her to remember.
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Chronicles of Faerie volume 4
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2009.
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Now thirteen and depressed, Dana has been living with her father and his new wife in Canada for two years, and when she finds that her gateway to the land of Faerie has been mysteriously shattered, she must travel the length and breadth of Canada to find the secret that will re-open the Faerie world.
15) Alias Grace
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It is 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists...
17) Shin-chi's canoe
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Six-year-old Shin-chi and his older sister, Shi-shi-etko, are sent to an Indian residential school far from their home and parents. They must use only their English names and are not allowed to speak to each other for many months at a time as they work hard and go to mass and always seem to be hungry.
19) Drums of change
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
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The stillness of the mountains, the pines covering the hillsides, the gurgle of the spring... this was her home... The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become...
20) Home home
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[2020]
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After being hospitalized for depression, fourteen-year-old Kayla is sent from her home in Trinidad to live with her aunt in Canada, yearning to feel at home but feeling more adrift than ever.
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