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Substitute fiancée (Presents Ser.)
Par Lee Wilkinson. 2000
Blaze Rawdon is convinced Francesca has a guilty secret - and, when his new fiancee disappears on the eve of…
their engagement party, Blaze ruthlessly coerces Francesca into becoming a temporary stand-in! Francesca is forced to play along with the pretence, only she mustn't let Blaze touch her heart: their brief affair years ago ended in tears. This time she is determined that while she may be his substitute fiancee, she'll never be his bride. 2000.Sun and shadow: an Erik Winter novel (A Chief Inspector Erik Winter novel. #1)
Par Laurie Thompson, Åke Edwardson. 2005
Erik Winter is the youngest Chief Inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for…
jazz, and is about to become a father. In addition, he is dealing with aging parents while trying to solve a gruesome murder. The city of Gothenburg is preparing to celebrate the millennium and the particularly lurid double murder leads Winter into the world of Goths and the possibility that someone on the force is involved. Followed by “Never end”. 2005. Uniform title: Sol och skugga.Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites Ser. #1)
Par Stephanie S Tolan. 2002
Kicked out of several public schools, Jake winds up being home schooled with an eccentric family of artists at the…
Applewhite's Creative Academy. When the whole clan becomes involved in producing The Sound of Music, Jake discovers a few positive traits and talents of his own. A Newbery Honor Book. Grades 5-8. 2002.Stuart Little (A Harper trophy book ; J56)
Par E. B White. 1945
The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest…
friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden. Winner of the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Grades 3-6. (A Harper trophy book)Sunwing (Silverwing Saga #Bk. 2)
Par Kenneth Oppel. 1999
While Shade continues to search for his father he finds a strange Human building that holds a huge forest. Thousands…
of bats live in the building where the forest is as warm as a summer night and food is plentiful. Then some of the bats start to go missing and Shade and Marina want to know where they have disappeared to. Their search takes them on a long journey and brings them closer to finding Shade's father. Sequel to "Silverwing." Winner of the 2001 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 4-7. 1999.Seeing red
Par Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Siege 13: Stories
Par Tamas Dobozy. 2012
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World…
War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. This collection of thirteen linked stories is about this terrible time in history, and of the legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.Solo
Par Rana Dasgupta. 2010
Ulrich is a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria, wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the…
world before he dies. He embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country's turbulent century - and through his own lifetime of lost love and failed chemistry - and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.Second chance girl (Happily Inc series. #2.)
Par Susan Mallery. 2017
Just as he begins to understand what a treasure his elusive neighbor is, Mathias wounds her deeply with careless actions.…
If he can't convince Carol to be his girl, he's facing a long, empty future alone. Sequel to "You say it first", followed by "A very merry princess". 2017.Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
Par Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Strange things done
Par Elle Wild. 2016
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.Stranger in Thunder Basin
Par John D Nesbitt. 2009
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.Street of riches
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Strawberry girl
Par Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.Solar bones: a novel
Par Mike McCormack. 2017
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing,…
relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being," surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. 2017.Spring forward (Mystic Creek novel. #4.)
Par Catherine Anderson. 2018
Crystal Malloy owns the beauty salon in Mystic Creek, Oregon. It took years of work to stand on her own…
after a difficult upbringing and to turn her fledgling enterprise into a successful business. There's never been much time for romance, but when a handsome, friendly man stops in at her salon--he's traveling through town on business--she's immediately taken with him. Their friendship quickly blossoms into romance, and the two of them manage to meet up for dates when his work brings him to town. He's honest with her from the start that as a recent widower with young children; there's no real prospect of a long-term relationship between them. Crystal never thought she would marry, so she's fine keeping things light until the day she realizes that she's fallen in love. She can no longer imagine a future without him. Now she'll have to choose between following her heart or staying in her beloved Mystic Creek with the salon customers who have become like family to her. 2018.Stone soup: an old tale
Par Marcia Brown. 1947
When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So…
the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones. Grades K-3. Caldecott Honor Book. 1947.Still (3-day Bks.)
Par B. P Nichol. 1983
Consists of two strands of text: the spare dialogue of a couple exploring their broken relationship and the lyrical evocation…
of a perfect landscape and a perfect house. Strong language. Winner of the 1982 Pulp Press Annual Three-day Novel-writing Contest. 1983.Stitches
Par Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.Song of my heart (Recorded Books inspirational)
Par Kim Vogel Sawyer. 2012
When Thad McKane, the new sheriff of Goldtree, Kansas, uncovers a connection between the crime he's investigating and singer Sadie…
Wagner, the woman he's courting, he wonders if she's as innocent as she seems. 2012.