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Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Alligator: A Novel
Par Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.An audience of chairs: a novel
Par Joan Clark. 2005
Moranna MacKenzie lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness. Highly creative, she plays the…
piano, sings, writes, sculpts, and bakes - all perfectly - but also behaves erratically and alienates her friends and family. Still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously, she then learns that one of them is about to get married. 2005.All the men are sleeping: collected fiction
Par D. R MacDonald. 2002
Short stories of Cape Breton Island that explore the misunderstanding between men and women, the nature of seduction and infidelity,…
and the heartache of longing. For a fisherman in "The flowers of Bermuda", time has not repaid the loss of his young son's life. In the title story, the compassion of a rural doctor imperils a horse and a woman the doctor once loved. Some strong language. 2002.Adventures of Abby Diamond: out of sight (Abby Diamond)
Par Kristie Smith-Armand. 2009
Abby Diamond is an eleven year old girl who loves to solve the mysteries that surround her and her three…
best friends: Neils, Andrea and Alison. Being blind does not stop this girl detective from solving the cases that happen in her home and at school, including anonymous Braille notes, a missing parent, a haunted doll, and neighbourhood break-ins. Grades 4-7. 2009. (Abby Diamond)The story of Anna Elisabeth, one of the settlers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In 1753 Lunenburg is a rocky hillside…
of forest, not the prepared homesteads she and her family had been expecting. With no shelter, no crops planted, and no experience at frontier life, how will she survive and thrive in her new home? c2010.A different kind of Beauty
Par Sylvia McNicoll. 2004
Elizabeth's at it again - she's raising a puppy for the guide dog program. But this time, for sure, she…
won't fall in love. She's too busy, for one thing: it's her first year at high school, she's going to be an aunt, and she's engaged to be married - sort of, maybe, in sixteen years or so, if Scott's still around. Sequel to: "Bringing Up Beauty". For junior and senior high readers. 2004.A house divided
Par Catherine Cookson. 1999
Set at the end of the Second World War, a young man, blinded in action and a decorated war hero,…
returns home and strives to put his life back in order the best way he can. c1999.A fit month for dying
Par Myrtis T Dohaney. 2000
Tess Corrigan is a popular politician. Originally from a coastal village, she now lives in St. John's with her husband…
and twelve-year-old son. Urged on by her mother-in-law, she decides to track her bigamous father down. Preoccupied with this and her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble until a decision triggers a series of betrayals and revelations that forever change her family and the village of The Cove. 2000.18 seconds: A Novel
Par George D Shuman. 2006
Wildwood, New Jersey police lieutenant Kelly O'Shaughnessy is stymied over the disappearance of young women. When an old man's untimely…
death leads investigative consultant Sherry Moore, blind and with the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse, to Wildwood, O'Shaughnessy's desperation forces her to accept Sherry's help, but not without consequence. Descriptions of sex, explicit violence and strong language. 2006.The doctor's sweetheart and other stories
Par L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.The sleeping sword
Par Michael Morpurgo. 2002
Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle stumbles one day into an underground tomb containing a shield and a beautiful ancient…
sword. As he touches the hilt, his whole body is gripped by an incredible, centuries-old power. It is a power that will change Bun's life forever. Grades 2-4. 2002.From the corner of his eye
Par Dean R Koontz. 2000
At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Bartholomew Lampion was blinded by eye surgery. Barty grows up…
a prodigy, and at the age of 13, he regains his sight and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.Our homesick songs
Par Emma Hooper. 2018
The fish have mysteriously disappeared, and in the fishing village of Big Running most families had no choice but to…
relocate and find work elsewhere. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. Plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between Aidan and Martha only widens. Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish, and is aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. Callaghan. Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses but--desperate for a bigger life beyond the small town--takes matters into her own hands. 2018.Blind
Par Rachel DeWoskin. 2014
When Emma Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything, from walking across the street to…
recognizing her own sisters to imagining colours. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she’s about to start high school and try to recover her friendships and former life, one of her classmates is found dead in an apparent suicide. Fifteen and blind, Emma has to untangle what happened and why—in order to see for herself what makes life worth living. For senior high readers. 2014.Watch (The www Trilogy Ser.)
Par Robert J Sawyer. 2010
Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter receives a signal-processing retinal implant to see, but the technology also gives her the ability…
to "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web, and an extraordinary presence within it. Called Webmind, it befriends Caitlin and wants to learn about her world, but Watch - the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for threats to the United States - also discovers it. Watch is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security, but Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion - and she'll do anything to protect her friend. Strong language. 2010.Wake (WWW trilogy. #1.)
Par Robert J Sawyer. 2009
Although Caitlin Decter is blind, she can effortlessly surf the Internet by following its complex paths clearly in her mind.…
When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness. Followed by "Watch". 2009. (The WWW trilogy ; 1)What is left the daughter
Par Howard A Norman. 2010
Nova Scotia, 1967. Loner Wyatt Hillyer decides to write a memoir in the form of a letter on the occasion…
of his estranged daughter Marlais' twenty-first birthday. He slowly discloses the events of his parents' scandalous deaths in 1941, his teenage years living with his aunt and uncle, the joys of fatherhood, and what led to his abandoning his only daughter and her mother. 2010.Cauchemar aveugle (Ado ; 71. Plus.)
Par Fernande D Lamy. 2006
Thierry, quatorze ans, est aveugle depuis lâge de sept ans. Son imagination et sa sensibilité extra-sensorielle lui amènent des images…
cauchemardesques presque toutes les nuits. Il a peur. Peur pour lui mais, surtout, peur pour son fidèle chien guide, devenu lenjeu dun chantage odieux. Ses harceleurs voient en lui une proie utile, facile et sans risque. Seul, quel moyen Thierry a-t-il pour lutter contre toutes les menaces qui pèsent sur lui? Quel chemin prendront-elles pour latteindre? Une fois tous ses sens agressés, que lui restera-t-il pour se défendre? Le fait davoir échoué dans sa tentative pour se protéger lui donne-t-il le droit de se taire? -- 4e de couv.Compression: roman
Par Nicolas Bouyssi. 2009
"Hélène m'a conseillé, afin de m'éviter le ridicule, de m'habiller suivant ses choix au commencement de ma treizième année. Hélène…
est une femme grande, qui me dépasse d'une tête. Hélène, depuis deux mois, habite 11, rue de Cléry. Hélène est, selon moi, une femme qu'on intimide trop facilement. Hélène est pleine de reproches à mon sujet. Hélène ne comprend pas que je me complaise à être en marge. Hélène pénètre chez moi à l'improviste. Hélène m'embrasse et me caresse la main [...]". -- 4e de couv.