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The Colonial Hotel
Par Jonathan Bennett. 2014
A doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does…
break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The nurse, Helen, is pregnant; she escapes, but Paris is left behind, imprisoned by rebels as war rages. A narrative of brutal power about parental bonds, forgiveness, and identity, "The Colonial Hotel" recasts for the 21st century the ancient Greek story of Paris, Helen, and Oenone. 2014.The dog with golden eyes (Milkweed Prize For Children's Literature Ser.)
Par Frances Wilbur. 1998
When lonely thirteen-year-old Cassie finds a large white dog in her backyard, she begins to feed him secretly. She does…
odd jobs for her neighbours to earn dog-food money. Then she discovers that her pet is really a wolf and determines to save it from capture. Grades 4-7. c1998.The cuckoo child
Par Dick King-Smith. 1993
Jack Daw has always loved birds. When his class visits Wildlife Park and he sees an ostrich for the first…
time, Jack is fascinated by the huge bird. He steals an ostrich egg marked for snake food. At home he slips his prize under an unsuspecting goose and, forty-one days later, Oliver hatches. Although his surrogate parents are confused by his odd appearance, Oliver soon becomes the pride and joy of his goose mother and Jack. Grades 3-6. 1993.The elevator ghost
Par Glen Huser. 2014
When Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, no one knows what to make of her sequin-sprinkled sneakers and her…
trinket-crusted car. But the parents are happy there’s a new babysitter around, and Carolina seems to have an uncanny ability to calm the most rambunctious child with her ghostly stories. Armed with unusual snacks (bone-shaped peppermints, Rumpelstiltskin sandwiches) and candles to set the mood, she entertains the children with good old-fashioned storytelling and, at the end, a great Halloween party. It turns out that Carolina has a timeworn connection to the Blatchford Arms, and to the ghost who still haunts the building - especially its old-fashioned elevator. Grades 3-6. 2014.The dilettantes: a novel
Par Michael Hingston. 2013
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a…
news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole. It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An exposé about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree? 2013.The crimes of Hector Tomás
Par Ian Colford, Robyn Read. 2012
Enrique Tomás lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has…
secrets. When his second eldest son, Hector, and Hector’s beloved friend Nadia uncover one of Enrique’s secrets, the course of Hector’s life is irrevocably altered. Exiled by his parents to the isolated countryside, Hector is accused of terrorism—a crime for which he is innocent, yet ruthlessly punished. As he tries desperately to extricate himself from the violence perpetrated by a brutal political regime, he realizes that freedom can only come at a terrible price. 2012.The dictator: a novel
Par David Layton. 2017
Aaron, unhappy in middle age, must deal with the reverberations of the financial crisis, his increasingly alienated teenaged daughter and…
the sudden care of his father, Karl, a man he hardly knows, who is descending into Alzheimer’s. Karl is a man who has survived by reinventing himself many times over. Blustering, arrogant, he is convinced that the world is intentionally trying to confuse him, not least his good-for-nothing son. Not like his other son, the one he left behind. If only Karl could remember his name, and where he is, Karl would go and find him. 2017.The Eliot girls
Par Krista Bridge. 2013
Audrey has always wanted to attend George Eliot Academy, the private school where her mother has taught for a decade.…
But when she is accepted, she finds that the school is filled with bullying and intolerance. Her mother, Ruth, meanwhile, navigates the politics in the teachers' lounge while fighting the frustrations of adulthood and its fading opportunities. c2013.The coast road: a Matt Minogue mystery
Par John Brady. 2010
When Patrick Larkin, an alcoholic, mentally ill homeless man, is beaten to death in a park, the public is outraged,…
as Larkin was well-known for his solitary walks along the Dublin coast road. Inspector Minogue and his partner, Tommy Malone, are abruptly shifted to the Larkin case when it goes cold. When someone peripheral to the case also turns up dead, Minogue senses that the past is gaining on the present. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2010.The dead of winter
Par Lisa Appignanesi. 1999
After 14 women are killed by a deranged gunman in Montreal actress Madeleine Blais becomes certain that someone wants to…
kill her too. She falls deep into despair and finally is found hanging in a barn near her grandmother's cottage in Ste-Anne. Even though it looks like a suicide her grandmother manages to convince the police that Madeleine would never take her own life. Contains some strong language and descriptions of sex.The doll's alphabet
Par Camilla Grudova. 2017
Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods,…
mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories are simultaneously childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark. 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.The city still breathing
Par Matthew Heiti. 2013
A body is found on the side of a highway. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back…
of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people. These eleven people are all damaged in some way, and eventually are brought together in a strange moment of violence. 2013.The devil and the detective
Par John Goldbach. 2013
Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a…
young woman whose husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking and philosophizing long enough to keep up. 2013.The city man
Par Howard Akler. 2005
1934. With Toronto stalled in the Great Depression, Mona Kantor makes a living as a pickpocket, while reporter Eli Morenz…
struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued city. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld that Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 2005.The dying poem
Par Robert Budde. 2002
Jay Post, a hapless filmmaker, is hired to make a documentary about late poet Henry Black. To do so, he…
must unravel the threads of Henry's suicide-obsessed mind. As tools, he has only Black's poems and the addresses of two lovers. 2002.The comedian (Brave & brilliant ; #6)
Par Clem Martini. 2018
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once famous for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he…
struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity. This could be the performance that returns fortune and reputation, or the one that ends it all. Engaging, thoughtful, and funny, "The Comedian" dives into the rough and tumble world of arts in its infancy. Martini draws on his experience to bring to life the signs and sounds of a world where playwrights suffered and succeeded - but mostly suffered. 2018.The education of Mr. Whippoorwill: a country boyhood
Par David Zieroth. 2002
The tales that come with growing up on a prairie farm, and then leaving it for the big city, are…
recounted. Included are such happenings as a calf getting hit by lightning, a bag of squirming kittens, and the aftershocks of war passed down through the generations. For junior high readers. 2002.The clay girl: a novel (Maple leaf audio)
Par Heather Tucker. 2016
Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had…
unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge for Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper an imaginary seahorse. The respite does not last, and Ari is torn from her aunts and forced back to Toronto. Coming of age in the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her father's legacy and her mother's addictions. Testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness, Ari spins through a chaotic decade of loss and love, the devilish and divine, with wit, tenacity, and the astonishing balance unique to seahorses. 2016.The Damascus way (Acts of faith (Recorded Books, LLC) #3.)
Par Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn. 2011
As persecution of Christians intensifies, Julia - a merchant's daughter - finds hope in a new faith. When Jacob is…
hired to guard her father's caravan, Julia and the young man are drawn together - unaware they both are secretly delivering messages to believers scattered by persecution. Sequel to “The Hidden Flame”. 2011.The Elizabeth stories
Par Isabel Huggan. 1984
A series of stories linked by a girl growing up in a small town. In "Jack of hearts", Elizabeth is…
cast in a male role for a ballet recital, and in "Sorrows of the flesh", a crush on the science teacher turns sour when he is exposed as a wife beater. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1984.