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Every wickedness
Par Cathy Vasas-Brown. 2001
Seductive, irresistible and deadly, the Spiderman entices and traps beautiful young women with lethal precision. Beth Wells' roommate was the…
killer's fourth victim. She also fears for her own safety as she receives a series of threatening letters. 2001.Evil never sleeps
Par K. G. E Konkel. 2000
Miguel Fuentes rose rapidly through the ranks of the Mexican National Police Force until his probe into a stock exchange…
swindle caused him to be banished to a backwater mining town in the north. In his investigation into an explosion and the discovery of four grisly corpses, he was abruptly plunged into a deadly contest played out among the Mexican Secret Service, the ruling party of Mexico, and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special investigations. 2000.Eleanor Rigby: a novel
Par Douglas Coupland. 2004
Liz Dunn is overweight, crabby, plain, and alone, and is almost resigned to her fate of being nobody's wife or…
mother. As the Hale-Bopp comet streaks across the Vancouver skies, another comet crashes into her life - a young man admitted to the local hospital with her information inscribed on his Medic Alert bracelet: 'In case of emergency, contact Liz Dunn'. This triggers a chain of events that take Liz to the other side of the world and back, endangering her life just as a real chance at happiness finally seems within reach. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2004.Earth Elder stories: the Pinayzitt path
Par Alexander Wolfe. 1988
De Niro's game
Par Rawi Hage. 2006
Bassam and George, best friends, have been hardened by growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, and Bassam survives by…
dreaming of escaping to Rome. To be able to leave, Bassam gets George to skim money from the arcade where he works, but after joining the local Christian militia, George is a changed man. Though Bassam does eventually leave, he finds he cannot entirely escape Beirut; only in Paris does he discover the extent of his friend's treachery. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006.Daughter of strangers
Par Marjory Gordon. 2001
Amy goes on an archaeological dig with her adoptive father on the Thelon River in the Northwest Territories. A teenager…
of mixed ancestry with a white adoptive father, Amy knows nothing about the customs of her tribe and the skills she needs for survival. With help from her grandmother, she discovers what life would have been like for her among the Dene people who lived there 1600 years ago. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2001.Divisadero
Par Michael Ondaatje. 2007
California, 1970s. A man who lost his wife in childbirth is raising his two daughters, Anna and Claire, and tending…
his farm with the help of a young man, Coop, who he has more or less adopted. When the older Anna, and Coop fall into a sexual relationship and are discovered, the man becomes violent and Anna and Coop flee forever. The force of this event on how these three individuals lead the rest of their lives is the tripartite tale followed over the course of the next several years. Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 2007.Death down under (Screech Owls series. #15.)
Par Roy MacGregor. 2001
Dead girls
Par Nancy Lee. 2002
A hand model's strange and troubled bond with her ailing father is revealed though an inventory of her body parts.…
A marriage is tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter, while two angry women in a mini-van search for catharsis as they rampage through the night. Linked by the background narrative of a serial killer's arrest in Vancouver, these dark short stories of emotional wagers, discovery and loss reveal the desires and delusions that compel us to do the things we do. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 2002.Down there by the train: A Novel
Par Kate Sterns. 2001
Levon Hawke, paroled from one of Kingston's prisons, has been offered a job at his cousin's bakery on an unnamed…
island. On the island, he meets red-haired Obdulia Limb, grieving for her mother ten years dead. Her femme-fatale step-mother, her bullying father, and her unpredictable cousin try to engage Levon in a conspiracy to cure Obdulia of her grief. 2001.Different dragons
Par Jean Little. 1986
Ben is afraid of animals, thunderstorms, new places and people. When Aunt Rose gives him a big Labrador retriever for…
his birthday, Ben does not know how to tell her that the dog terrifies him. Grades 4-7. 1986.Dave cooks the turkey
Par Stuart McLean. 2005
Hapless Dave is at it again, promising his beloved wife Morley that he will take care of the Christmas turkey…
while she takes the kids to work at the food bank. Dave fails to realize quite what's involved, and the result is a Homeresque struggle to beat all the odds and somehow get an unappetizing, frozen, and slightly scarred bird home and roasted in time for Christmas dinner - before Morley cooks Dave's goose. 2005.Darwinia (Darwinia Ser. #Vol. 1)
Par Robert Charles Wilson. 1998
In 1912 world history is changed by the Miracle. The old world of Europe is replaced by a land known…
as Darwinia, a strange jungle full of antediluvian monsters. Some people seize the opportunity to carve out a new empire and America is ruled by religious fundamentalists. When young Guildford Law undertakes a journey of exploration to Darwinia he has a stunning revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe. c1998.Darkwing (Silverwing Ser.)
Par Kenneth Oppel. 2007
It is 65 million years ago, and Dusk and his family are chiropters, small tree-dwelling mammals that glide and feed…
on insects. Most of the colony is uncomfortable with Dusk's flying and use of echolocation, but when an outcast group of carnivores attack, they appreciate Dusk's ability to guide them and keep them safe, despite deadly predators and betrayals from within and outside of the colony. Grades 5-8. 2007.Courage in the storm
Par Thomas H Raddall. 1987
Crossing the distance
Par Evan Solomon. 1999
Two brothers, both charged with murder, flee the authorities and the media. While on the run the brothers make discoveries…
about themselves and uncover their painful past. As the media players hunt them down in a desperate bid for ratings, the brothers become more and more involved in a dark tragedy that touches many lives. 1999.Danger in Dinosaur Valley (Screech Owls series. #10.)
Par Roy MacGregor. 1999
At a tournament in Drumheller, Alberta, the "Dinosaur capital of Canada", the Screech Owls encounter Kelly Block, a sports psychologist.…
His weird ideas about how to build a better team actually threaten to tear the Owls apart. But what's weirder is what happens to Nish and then the others after a ride in Dinosaur Valley - and a sighting of what looks like a real Albertosaurus dinosaur. Grades 4-7. 1999. (The Screech Owls series ; 10)Crimes of war: A Novel
Par Peter Hogg. 1999
When the Special Prosecutions Unit, the group responsible for bringing the war criminals to trial, is shut down because of…
its ineffectiveness, two men's lives cross. One is responsible for hunting down and prosecuting Nazi war criminals who are now living in Canada, and he wants to finally catch one of the bad guys. The other is a Nazi war criminal who has built a life for himself in Canada. 1999.Dagmar's daughter
Par Kim Echlin. 2001
Dagmar, whose mother is Irish, is able to control the weather and has a remarkable gift for gardening. When her…
daughter, Nyssa, runs off with one of her father's oldest friends. Dagmar is undone by her daughter's disappearance and her wrath invokes an icy rain, which envelops the landscape. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.Dancing through the snow
Par Jean Little. 2007
Min has nothing - no mother, no birth certificate, no baby pictures, not even a real birthday. After four different…
foster families, she's not surprised to be dumped back with Children's Aid the week before Christmas. Still, a small part of her can't help aching for a miracle - and now she's found an injured dog that needs one too. Some strong language. Grades 4-7. 2007.