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The emperor of Paris
Par C. S Richardson. 2012
Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery, and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette,…
but also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading, and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre, trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores. The two might never have met, but for a curious chain of coincidences involving a mysterious traveller, an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, lost and found. c2012.The heavy bear
Par Tim Bowling. 2017
What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark…
on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear? The main character - a sort of contemporary version of Joyce's Leopold Bloom who just happens to be named Tim Bowling - spends an intense late-summer day in downtown Edmonton. Haunted by "the slender sadness" of the world, and unable to face his afternoon class, Tim Bowling finds himself pulled into an escapade revolving around an antique toy, a capuchin monkey and a young student our narrator likens to Pippi Longstocking. Accompanied by the shade of the silent-film star Buster Keaton, and the bear-shaped spirit of the American poet Delmore Schwartz, Bowling's Tim Bowling must confront a fundamental problem of our age: how to make and maintain human connections in a world that seems intent on destroying them? 2017.The hangman (Good reads series)
Par Louise Penny. 2010
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On…
his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2010.The hill
Par Karen Bass. 2016
Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking…
up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop - with no cell service - the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something - a creature that should only exist in legend - is hunting them. For senior high readers. 2016.The heaviness of things that float
Par Jennifer Manuel. 2016
Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery…
of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing. Winner of the 2017 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 2016.The honey farm: a novel
Par Harriet Alida Lye. 2018
The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe…
life back into her farm: offer it as an artists' colony with free room, board, and "life experience" in exchange for backbreaking labor. Silvia, a wide-eyed graduate and would-be poet, and Ibrahim, a painter distracted by constant inspiration, are drawn to Cynthia's offer, and soon, to each other. But something lies beneath the surface. The Edenic farm is plagued by events that strike Silvia as ominous: taps run red, scalps itch with lice, frogs swarm the pond. One by one, the other residents leave. As summer tenses into autumn, Cynthia's shadowed past is revealed and Silvia becomes increasingly paralyzed by doubt. 2018.The hidden agenda of Sigrid Sugden
Par Jill MacLean. 2013
Sigrid Sugden is a Shrike, a member of one of the toughest group of girls in school. They are experts…
at blackmail, extortion and bullying their terrorized classmates. But one day, the Shrikes go too far. Sigrid realizes that their favourite victim, Prinny Murphy, is in real danger. She makes a decision that will save Prinny from danger, but will turn the Shrikes anger and bullying against their former friend who betrayed them to the authorities. For junior high and older readers. Sequel to “The present tense of Prinny Murphy”. 2013.The hidden keys
Par André Alexis. 2016
Thief Tancred Palmieri meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict, who reveals that her very wealthy father has recently passed…
away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle: a Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, a bottle of aquavit, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Even when Willow dies, Tancred presses on, while fending off Willow's heroin dealers and lying to Detective Daniel Mandelshtam, his most adored friend. 2016.The home for unwanted girls: a novel
Par Joanna Goodman. 2018
In 1950s Quebec, where the French and English barely tolerate each other, Maggie Hughes falls for the French boy next…
door. But Maggie's English father won't have any of it, and when she becomes pregnant at fifteen, he forces her to give baby Elodie up for adoption. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system, withstanding abysmal treatment until she earns her freedom at seventeen. As time passes, the stories of mother and daughter intertwine, but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must go in search of her long-lost daughter. Bestseller. 2018.The hidden flame (Acts of faith. #2.)
Par Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn. 2010
The house at Pooh Corner
Par A. A Milne. 2003
The hole in the middle
Par Kate Hilton. 2013
Sophie Whelan is the epitome of the modern superwoman. When she operates at peak performance, she can cajole balky employees,…
soothe her cranky children, and throw a dinner party for ten — all in the same day. But as Sophie’s fortieth birthday looms, her seamless life reveals disturbing fractures. Conflict with her boss, growing jealousy of her husband’s femme fatale business partner and her feelings of inadequacy as a mother are cracking the edifice of her life. Rescue may be at hand when Lillian Parker, a wealthy widow who befriended Sophie during her university days, makes Sophie an irresistible offer. Why, then, does Sophie hesitate? The answer is the reappearance of Lillian’s nephew, Will Shannon, the great unresolved love of Sophie’s life. As she remembers the drama of their college romance, Sophie confronts the choices she has made in life and looks for the one answer that has always eluded her: what does she really want? Bestseller. 2013.The heart of valor: a Confederation novel (Confederation of valor series. #3.)
Par Tanya Huff. 2009
Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant…
Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios. Sequel to "The better part of valor", followed by "Valor's trial". 2009.The hero's walk: a novel
Par Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.The hanging girl
Par Eileen Cook. 2017
Skye Thorn has given tarot card readings for years, and now her "psychic visions" are helping the police find the…
town's missing golden girl. It's no challenge: her readings have always been faked, and she's involved in the kidnapping. It was supposed to be easy--no one would get hurt and she'd get the money she needs to start a new life. When the harmless prank turns dark, Skye realizes the people she's involved with are willing to kill to get what they want. Now she must discover their true identity-- before it's too late. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 John Spray Mystery Award. 2017.The hesitation cut
Par Giles Blunt. 2015
Nothing could be more serene than the life of Brother William, a young Benedictine monk who had turned his back…
on the world ten years earlier to retreat to a monastery in upstate New York. But then Lauren Wolfe, a troubled young poet, comes to use the library to research a book on Heloise and Abelard; one sight of the faint scars from a failed suicide attempt on Lauren's wrist is enough to turn the monk's life upside down. Every suppressed impulse rises to the surface: his desire to rescue and soothe her trumps his vows of obedience, poverty and chastity. Soon he is simply Peter, a gentle young man who has followed his beloved to New York City because he needs to look out for her, as sincerely as he once pursued his calling. Bestseller. 2015.The harem midwife
Par Roberta Rich. 2013
The Imperial Harem, Constantinople, 1579. Hannah and Isaac Levi, Venetians in exile, have set up a new life for themselves…
in Constantinople. Isaac runs a newly established business in the growing silk trade, while Hannah, the best midwife in all of Constantinople, plies her trade within the opulent palace of Sultan Murat III, tending to the thousand women of his lively and infamous harem. But one night, when Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the palace, she's confronted with Leah, a poor Jewish peasant girl who has been abducted and sold into the sultan's harem. Sequel to "The midwife of Venice". Bestseller. 2013.The headmaster's wager
Par Vincent Lam. 2012
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon – and a bon vivant, compulsive gambler,…
and incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot business opportunities, but ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him. Percy finds happiness with Jacqueline, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. But Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. c2012.The girl in a coma
Par John George Moss. 2016
Allison Briscoe is your average fifteen-year-old--until someone tries to kill her. Shot in the head, her doctors and family think…
she is in a coma, but in fact, though she cannot move, she can think, hear, and dream. Each night, Allison lives vicariously through her pioneer ancestors, entering the world of Rebecca Haun, a fifteen-year-old rebel who lived in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. To prove a friend innocent of murder, Rebecca betrays her Mennonite beliefs and joins the Women's Brigade with George Washington's rag-tag army at Valley Forge. And each day, Allison struggles to find a way to show her family that she is awake--a goal that becomes increasingly desperate when she realizes that whoever shot her has come back to finish the job. For junior and senior high students. 2016.The gargoyle overhead (Lost Gargoyle Ser. #2)
Par Philippa Dowding. 2010
What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle, and what if he just happened to be in terrible…
danger? Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle named Gargoth of Tallus who lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him, Ambergine, his greatest friend. What Katherine and Gargoth don't know is that Ambergine is searching for Gargoth too - but so is his greatest enemy. Sequel to "The Gargoyle in My Yard". Grades 5-8. 2010.