Readers and Audiobooks: eBooks - High Beginner

Angie is used to helping her dad. Ever since they moved to Canada, he relies on her to translate for him from English to Chinese. Angie is happy to help: when they go to restaurants, at the grocery store, and, one day, when her dad needs help writing some signs for his work. (from Annick Press)

Sonny works on a line in a machine shop. All day long he drills holes into engine blocks. He doesn't love his job, but it feeds his family. Then Sonny is laid off. Does Sonny give up hope? Or does he find a way to get his life back? (from Grass Roots Press)

Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan. She asks him to go to Northern Ontario to help at her hunting lodge. She promises him a share of the profits. Rick works hard to make the lodge successful. But Gladys refuses to share the profits. In the middle of a drinking bout, a fight starts... (from Orca Book Publishers)

Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. He prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never having been late for anything in his life. Walter is also homeless. The medical expenses that came with his mother's brief and unsuccessful battle against cancer have left him destitute. (from Orca Book Publishers)

Sixteen-year-old Rasheed is smart, tough and a survivor. In his neighborhood, he has to be. The streets are run by a gang called the E Street Locals, and they've been trying to jump him in since he was a child.... (from Orca Book Publishers)

Sara used to be a back-up singer in a band. She left her singing career to raise a family. She is content with being a stay-at-home mom. Then, one Saturday, Sara's world changes.... (from Grass Roots Press)

On New Year's Eve, Dixie and her husband Grady set off on a car trip. Soon they're caught in a blizzard. They go to their friend Ron's house. Both Grady and Ron are RCMP officers. They get called to go out on duty. Dixie spends the evening sharing secrets with a couple of other RCMP wives. (from Grass Roots Press)

Duncan is very angry. Tess, his wife, has turned their dining room into a library. Then disaster strikes: Tess gets sick. Soon Duncan is alone. Right away, he clears out the books he hates. Suddenly, things in the house start to move around by themselves. Is the house haunted? (from Grass Roots Press)

Liz invites her sister, Roma, and two friends to dinner. The four women have something important in common: they are hearing daughters of deaf parents. (from Grass Roots Press)

Missing is based on a true story. Luc Caron lives in northern France during World War I. One day, he sees three airplanes fighting in the sky... (from Grass Roots Press)

Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. (from Orca Book Publishers)

Nicole Patterson is a young Ontario police officer who dreams of being a detective. When she finds a body, she starts investigating. Is Nicole Patterson herself heading for trouble by pretending to be a detective? (from Orca Books Publisher)

Gina Gallo is a gemologist who just wants to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately she's also "the Goddaughter," of the mob. As she tells her new friend Pete, "you don't get to choose your relatives." (from Orca Book Publishers)

Gina Gallo finds herself embroiled in her family's shady dealings when a body turns up at her uncle's restaurant. But it's just the beginning of her problems. (from Orca Book Press)

Gina Gallo is a mob goddaughter who doesn't want to be one. She's left her family behind to elope to Vegas. Except that eloping may be a mortal sin in an Italian family. (from Orca Book Press)

Escaping the pressures of big-city policing, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. Unpopular bully Billy Ray Edwards is murdered and nobody in town is unhappy. But murder is murder, and Max is ready to solve it on her own. (from Orca Book Press)

RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray is shocked to recognize the body as that of one of his Haitian police recruits. To his wife's increasing dismay, Ray is compelled to follow the dead man's trail and finds himself plunged into the world of human trafficking and the problems of a tiny country struggling to cope with a desperate wave washing up on its shores. (from Orca Book Publishing)

When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas's growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask. What follows is a race against time and the forces of evil in this supernatural thriller. (from Orca Book Publisher)

Jackie starts dreaming about what could be. Then she gets to work on changing her life. Could she own a beauty salon one day? (from Grass Roots Press)

Maggie takes pride in how her home looks. Her son Nick suggests she take a job cleaning other people’s houses, Before she knows it, she has her own business going. (from Grass Roots Press)

Ethan is an artist. His girlfriend, Ashley, has a head for business. Together they start selling Ethan’s handmade jewelry and crafts. But things take off in ways they did not imagine. (from Grass Roots Press)

Wayne is busy doing “odd jobs” for neighbors and friends. And around the house, where he lives with his mom. When his mom dies, he is left to fend for himself. With help from a few special people in his life, Wayne does better than he ever thought possible. (from Grass Roots Press)

Alex just lost his job at the plant. His unemployment checks won’t last forever. He owns only one thing of value—his pickup truck. That’s when the idea comes to him. He can start a hauling business! (from Grass Roots Press)

As she looks down at her baby, a tear runs down Valerie’s cheek. “How can I possibly leave you?” she whispers. Valerie’s time at home with baby Jarrod is almost up. She must return to work. But Valerie finds a way to stay home with Jarrod—and make money. She will run day care in her home. (from Grass Roots press)

Tribb has always been a thinker, not a doer. But he needs to do something about the mice in his house, and fast.
Linda, his wife, hates those mice. If only Tribb could get rid of the nasty little things. Then Linda might be happy again. Maybe even fall in love with him again. (from Grass Roots Press)

“Pet sitting would be good work for you,” Ginny’s friend Eva tells her. Ginny really is cut out to be a pet sitter. After the death of her dog, Rocky, she can’t bear the thought of getting another dog. But then Ginny takes care of Eva’s dog for a week and realizes something important—she not only loved Rocky, she loves all animals. And animals love her. So she starts a pet-sitting business. (from Grass Roots Press)

“You like lawns. Fine. But think, Tony.” Tony is not one to rush into things. He likes to think things over. Now Tio, his great-uncle, pushes Tony to think about how to keep his new business going. Making money from lawn care has been hard work, yet fun. But now what? With summer gone and winter just around the corner, who’s going to need lawn care? How can he make a living? Tio reminds Tony there’s more to life than lawn care and making money. Tony finds out just how true that is. (from Grass Roots Press)