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The deception of Livvy Higgs
Par Donna Morrissey. 2012
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her…
younger self leads her back through her past. She must pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father, despite their mutual hatred. 2012.The desert crop
Par Catherine Cookson. 1997
1880s England. Young Daniel Stewart's life changes when his alcoholic, widowed father marries a distant Irish cousin, Moira Conelly. Over…
the years the cheerful Moira has many children while the father squanders their money. When his father dies, Daniel assumes the leadership of the family, falls in love with the wrong girl, and continues farming. 1997.The Corrigan women
Par M. T Dohaney. 1988
In 1914, Bertha Ryan arrives in a small Newfoundland town to work for the Corrigan family. Raped by her employer's…
son, Bertha becomes pregnant and eventually ends up with the Corrigan property. A saga of three generations of women. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.The crazy man
Par Pamela Paige Porter. 2005
1965. After Emaline, 11, is crippled in a tractor accident, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from…
their Saskatchewan farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local mental hospital to help with the farm work, but the neighbours jeer and complain about the crazy man. Emaline sees Angus' kindness and strength, but it is only when he performs the ultimate act of heroism that others in the town finally recognize his worth as a human being. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Golden Oak Award. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2005.This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.The captive (In search of lost time ; #5)
Par Marcel Proust. 1923
In this fifth part of the autobiographical novel, "Remembrance of things past", Albertine is living with the narrator who is…
tortured by the suspicion and jealousy of her relations with other women. Sequel to "Cities of the plain" (DC31600). Followed by "Sweet cheat gone" (DC30887). 1923. (In search of lost time ; 5)The Blythes are quoted
Par L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.The book of Ebenezer Le Page
Par G. B Edwards. 1981
An autobiographical novel found among the author's papers after his death at the age of eighty. Ebenezer remembers his life…
on the isle of Guernsey from pastoral childhood to old age; from the time of the Boer War through World War II, when Guernsey was occupied by German troops, to the age of television and tourism. He also tells of his love/hate relationship with Liza. 1981.The blue castle
Par L. M Montgomery. 1980
To be 29 and unmarried is the ultimate in shame and misery in the small Canadian town where Valancy has…
grown up, and for years she has taken refuge in her imaginary 'blue castle'. Now she must face reality; a letter has turned her life upside down. It's time to leave home and seek freedom. 1980.The birth house
Par Ami McKay. 2006
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.The bishop's man
Par Linden MacIntyre. 2009
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist, for at his bishop's bidding he drives out priests who molest children to…
discreet clinics or far-off parishes. When MacAskill is sent to a rural parish in his native Cape Breton, he encounters a troubled young man who appears to be the victim of a notorious priest. MacAskill, struggling with his own demons, is determined to help this man, regardless of the consequences for the church. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2009.The Beetle and me: a love story
Par Karen Romano Young. 1999
At fifteen, Daisy, who is as obsessed with cars as the rest of her family, convinces her reluctant father to…
let her try to restore his purple 1957 Volkswagen Beetle. While she struggles to work on the car, Daisy experiences her first relationships with boys. For Junior and Senior high readers. 1999.The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
Par Gil McNeil. 2009
Jo Mackenzie, newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, leaves London to take over her Gran's…
wool shop in her seaside hometown. There, she finds unexpected comfort in a knitting group that meets to trade gossip and, occasionally, a new stitch. When a new man enters Jo's life, the knitting club has even more trouble confining the conversation to knit one, purl two. Some strong language. c2009.The basketball player: and 3 more stories
Par Sheila Fischman, Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen, Gilles Pelletier. 1996
Roch is sent to a boarding school; he's named to the basketball team on the first day, even though he's…
never played basketball in his life! Grades K-3. 1996. Taped with: The longest home run. A strange girl shows up to play baseball and hits a home run through the window of Sergeant Bouton; but Adeline is no ordinary girl -- she is a magician! Grades K-3. 1993. Taped with: The boxing champion. When spring melts the ice in Ste. Justine, boxing season begins in the Cote's summer kitchen. Young Roch is not much of a fighter, but spends the winter building up his muscles for next spring's matches. Grades K-3. 1991. Taped with: A happy New Year's day. New Year's Day 1941 is a special day for a young boy in the little village of Sainte-Justine, Quebec. Grades K-3. 1991. Uniform title: Joueur de basket-ball.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Par Mordecai Richler. 1959
The architects are here
Par Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.Sweetland: a novel
Par Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Teacher, teacher!
Par Jack Sheffield. 2007
Tarka the otter (Puffin Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Henry Williamson. 1995
This tale of an otter's life and death in Devon, captures the feel of life in the wild as seen…
through the otter's own eyes. Grades 5-8. Originally published in 1927. 1995.Strong hollow: a novel
Par Linda Little. 2001
After his drunken father's death, Jackson, alone in his big brawling family, tries to earn a living as a bootlegger.…
One summer he meets Ian, a fiddler, and for a few weeks he grasps the joy he has craved all his life. In the terrible wake of their affair, Jackson discovers that hollowness can be a source of power. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. 2001.