Adventure? Romance? Supernatural? Horror? Our library has all kinds of stories for you to enjoy!
Check them out below. Browse our Fiction shelves and watch for labels to show you to your favourites.
Aboriginal/First Nations/Indigenous Fiction Find more to read through: Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese. Check it out in our library at FIC WAG Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre. But Saul wants peace and he realizes that he'll only find it through telling his story. |
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Action/Adventure Fiction Find more to read through: Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel. Check it out in our library at FIC OPP Will's quiet life changes when he travels west on the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. Will must rely on his wits, courage, and friends to solve the mysteries that are on The Boundless a mammoth train crossing the continent. |
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Canadian Fiction Find more to read through: The Dogs by Allan Stratton. Check it out in our library at FIC STR Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years from his father. Cameron starts to see and hear things that aren't possible and is soon questioning everything he thought he knew, including his own sanity. |
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Classic Fiction Find more to read through: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Check it out in our library at FIC FIT The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan. |
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Crime Fiction Find more to read through: The Merit Birds by Kelley Powell. Check it out in our library at FIC POW Cam falls in love with Nok, who teaches him about building merit, or karma. Then tragedy strikes and Cam finds himself falsely accused of murder. His freedom depends on a person he’s never met. |
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Fantasy Fiction Find more to read through: Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce. Check it out in our library at FIC PIE The revered leader of her settlement asks Emmeline for her hand. It is a rare opportunity, but she loves another man and cannot ignore dreams that urge her into the dangerous and forbidden woods that took her grandmother's life and her family's reputation. |
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Graphica Find more to read through: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Check it out in our library at 741.5 GAI The orphan Bod is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child and raised lovingly by a community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. Leaving the graveyard could mean his death at the hands of the man who murdered Bod's family. |
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Historical Fiction Find more to read through: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Check it out in our library at FIC DOE The paths of a blind French girl and a German boy collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. |
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Horror/Paranormal Fiction Find more to read through: The Night Has Teeth by Kat Kruger. Check it out in our library at FIC KRU The born and the bitten: some take the form of elegant wolves and some are cursed to become the creatures of horror movies. Connor is hunted by a beast searching for both a cure and a means of wiping out werewolves for good. |
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Humour Fiction Find more to read through: Alice Mcleod, Realist At Last by Susan Juby. Check it out in our library at FIC JUB Sixteen-year-old Alice uses her screen-writing aspirations to help her get through a challenging period in her life after her boyfriend goes to Scotland, her mother is jailed for environmental activism, and her depressed father cannot get a job. |
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LGBTQ Fiction Find more to read through: The Moon at Nine by Sarah Ellis. Check it out in our library at FIC WAG In 1988, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran. Farrin falls in love with her friend Sadira, but it is against the law to be a homosexual in Iran, punishable by death. |
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Mystery Fiction Find more to read through: Face-off, by Michael Betcherman. Check it out in our library at FIC BET Seventeen-year-old Alex Petrovic is surprised when he discovers that he has a twin brother he never knew about. Meeting his brother uncovers family secrets that involve a civil war that tore apart their home country. Can Alex bring two escaped war criminals from this conflict to justice? |
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Romance Fiction Find more to read through: The sweetest thing you can sing by C. K. Kelly Martin. Check it out in our library at FIC MAR When Serena finds herself in a relationship with a new guy, she is surprised to find a different set of expectations. But have her previous experiences damaged her too much to make it work? |
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Science Fiction Find more to read through: The Martian by Scott Weir. Check it out in our library at FIC WEI Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him Mark finds himself stranded with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. |
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Short Stories Find more to read through: Blasphemy, by Sherman Alexie. Check it out in our library at FIC SC ALE A collection of thirty-one new and selected short stories by Native American author Sherman Alexie. |
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Sports Fiction Find more to read through: Off the Rim by Sonya Bates. Check it out in our library at FIC BAT Dylan struggles to focus on basketball playoffs when his girlfriend, Jenna, becomes the target threats from an anonymous cyberbully |
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War Fiction Find more to read through: Lost Girl Found by Leah Bassoff and Laura DeLuca. Check it out in our library at FIC BAS When war comes to a small village in southern Sudan, young Poni must run for her life and begins a long and dangerous trek across the east African countryside with thousand of refugees to a camp in Kenya, but along the way many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals and despair. |
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Western Fiction Find more to read through: Dream Wheels, by Richard Wagamese. Check it out in our library at FIC WAG Joe Willie Wolfchild is on the verge of becoming a World Champion rodeo cowboy when a legendary bull cripples him. At the same time, in the same city, Claire Hartley is brutally assaulted and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, is critically injured during a burglary. The young Ojibway-Sioux man, the black single mother and her mulatto son find their lives irrevocably changed. |
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World Fiction Find more to read through: Walking Home by Eric Walters. Check it out in our library at FIC WAL When sudden political violence gets their father killed and destroys their home in Kenya, siblings Muchoki and Jata travel hundreds of kilometers in a desperate search for their last remaining family. |
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Young Adult Fiction Find more to read through: The Truth Commission by Susan Juby. Check it out in our library at FIC JUB Normandy Pale writes about the Truth Commission, whose purpose is to ask a question and get an honest answer, as a project for her junior year of high school at Green Pastures Academy of Art and Applied Design. |