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.
Action/Adventure Fiction Find more to read through: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. Check it out in our library at FIC TAY War orphan Lazlo Strange gets an unexpected opportunity to follow his dream of seeking the mythic lost city of Weep with the Godslayer and his band of legendary warriors. |
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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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Indigenous Fiction Find more to read through: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Check it out in our library at FIC ROB and BC ROB Jared sells weed cookies in high school and his scary mom is often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared's got an immense capacity for compassion, but he's only sixteen and feels like he's the one who has to stabilize his family. He already struggles to keep everything afloat but his life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. |
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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: How to pronounce knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Check it out in our library at FIC THA Among the stories in this collection a young girl's unconditional love for her father transcends the limits of language; a boxer loses his dream of becoming a championship fighter, but finds an unexpected second chance at his sister's nail salon; and assumptions about the limits of love unravel when a seventy-year-old woman begins a relationship with her much younger neighbour. |
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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: Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Check it out in our library at FIC MAR and BC MAR Pi Patel, sixteen-year-old son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, sets off with his family to Canada, but his life takes a dramatic turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific leaving him adrift on a raft with a Bengal tiger for company. |