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The first garden
Par Anne Hébert, Sheila Fischman. 1991
This novel, translated from the original French, centres on Flora Fontages, a famous Parisian actor. Her estranged daughter disappears, prompting…
Flora's return to Canada. A search is undertaken, and though Flora continues to act, she also begins to confront all the real-life roles she has ever played. 1991, c1988. Uniform title: Premier jardin.The fortress of Kaspar Snit
Par Cary Fagan. 2004
The Blande family is going on a quest to the Verulian Mountains to find out who is stealing the fountains…
of Rome. Along the way, they must face Kaspar Snit, an evil genius. Grades 3-6. 2004.The flying goat
Par H. E Bates. 1994
This selection of stories contains some of the author's shorter works. In the title story the lighthearted comedy of his…
Uncle Silas' sketches is given full play. "The ox" is the tragedy of a stoical, inexperienced woman. His longest contribution, "I am not myself," is the study of a man who falls in love with a girl who is not quite mad, but who believes in the existence of things which do not exist, providing a restrained atmosphere of tenderness and half-madness setting this story apart from the rest. 1994.The fortunate brother
Par Donna Morrissey. 2016
Kyle is still mourning his dead older brother, Chris. But soon the murder and drowning of a local bully, Clar…
Gillard, proves more than distracting as the police cordon off the Now house. The victim's blood was found on the family's pier, and suspicion falls first on Clar's alienated wife, then in the Now family. Behind the turmoil is the quieter but no less intense drama of the aftermath of Chris's death. Father Sylvanus Now drowns his sorrow in a bottle, and mother Addie is facing breast cancer. Tension exists between Kyle and Sylvie Now, unresolved as long as Kyle fails to confront his anger over his sister's role in getting Chris a job on the oil rig. As the mystery of who killed Clar Gillard unfolds, other deeper secrets are revealed. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award and the 2017 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.. 2016.The first stone
Par Don Aker. 2003
Reef is an embittered young offender, hardly able to contain his anger at the world over the death of his…
grandmother, the only person who had shown him any love. Seventeen-year-old Leeza is mourning the death of her older sister. A stone hurled in rage shatters both their lives and throws them together in the most unexpected way - and offers them a chance at healing. Followed by "The fifth rule" (DC41432). For junior and senior high readers. Descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2003.The Figgs
Par Ali Bryan. 2018
Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement--if only she can get her three adult…
children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single father. Now there's a newborn baby at home, and Derek's older siblings are showing no sign of going anywhere either. In the midst of the chaos, June's husband, Randy, has a shocking revelation--he has another son, who was given up for adoption. With family life flying fast and furious around her, June finds herself thinking about her own adoptive parents. Where did she come from? Does Randy's adopted son experience the same longing she's always felt? Will her new grandson be traumatized without his mother? And why in the world are all the kids still at home, anyway? 2018.The evil that men do
Par Michael Blair. 2017
On his return to Montreal, Riley becomes entangled in the wreckage left behind by a con man called Brandt who…
ran a Ponzi scheme. When the fifty-million-dollar scheme falls apart and dozens of people are left destitute, some of them figure that Brandt's wife Terry must know where he's hiding out. Riley's not convinced, but then Terry's the woman Riley was living with when he left Montreal twenty years before. 2017.The Farmerettes
Par Gisela Tobien Sherman. 2015
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on an Ontario farm as part…
of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages home to support her single mother; Peggy, a flirt with a secret she must keep; Binxie, whose rich family doesn't approve of her; Isabel, who pines for her fiance off fighting in Europe; and Jean, whose family farm has been taken over by the “farmerettes”, as they were known. Friendship, romance, hardship, and heartbreak shape their summer, all against the backdrop of the Second World War. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.The fifth rule
Par Don Aker. 2011
Reef is back in Halifax, which brings back memories of Leeza and the terrible way their relationship ended - with…
a restraining order. Leeza is feeling stifled by her mother's "concern" and wishes she was studying out of town. Despite Reef's best efforts to stay away, circumstances quickly unfold to push him and Leeza ever closer together, so Reef must face his demons and make some tough choices - or else risk losing everything, including the only girl he has ever loved. Sequel to "The first stone" (DC41431). For junior and senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. c2011.The ferryman will be there: an Ellis Portal mystery
Par Rosemary Aubert. 2001
Detective Ellis Portal is a former judge who fell due to drink and drugs, but re-ascended to the edge of…
respectability after living on the streets. His friend, cop Matt West, asks him to locate Carrie Simm, whose father, a Toronto movie producer, was murdered in front of her at a film premiere. Carrie has disappeared, and while Portal thinks he may find her among homeless women, he soon finds himself looking for a lot more than a missing girl. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2002.The farfarers: before the Norse
Par Farley Mowat. 1998
Mowat challenges the traditional belief that the Vikings were the first to reach northern Canada. He presents the argument that…
it was the Albans, the ancient people of Britain, who first made the journey across the North Atlantic to the northern regions of Canada. He blends fiction and fact to create the story of their journey across the ocean and into an unknown land. 1998.The featherbed: a novel
Par John Miller. 2002
When Anna and Sadie discover the diaries of their mother, Rebecca, after her death, they learn that her life was…
far more complex than either of them knew. She was a garment worker in early-1900s New York, the reluctant wife in an arranged marriage to an ailing and abusive husband, and the improbable friend of a pregnant prostitute. The diaries also point to a family secret and questions about Sadie's parentage. Some strong language. 2002.The favorite game: a novel
Par Leonard Cohen. 2018
Cohen chronicles the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. His…
coming of age brings him to the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty, to literary fame as a college student, and a discovery of the totality of love and its demands and sacrifices. 2018.The fallen one: a mystery
Par Rick Blechta, Matt Baker. 2012
Marta Hendriks is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband's death in…
a house fire. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, and Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she's hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance. But during one of her rare days off, Marta is caught in a sudden downpour, and dashing for the shelter of a subway station, she spots someone doing the same - her husband. Includes strong language. 2012.The fall of gravity: a novel
Par Leon Rooke. 2000
Joyel Daggle has abandoned her family and set out on the open road, complete with a false identity to ward…
off the mysterious cigarette-smoking man she thinks is pursuing her. Her husband Raoul and 11-year-old daughter Juliette spend months following her. Along the way, they meet various eccentric characters including a priest who has fallen from heaven, a pope who keeps apologizing for the sins of the Church, Olga the kickboxer and even God. Some strong language.The fat woman next door is pregnant: a novel
Par Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.The fearsome particles
Par Trevor Cole. 2006
Gerald Woodlore wakes one morning to find that he has reached the limits of what he can control. His company…
is in trouble, his wife Vicki is bending under the image of perfect happiness she constructs, and his son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the military's civilian support staff in Afghanistan, has returned in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.The fiend in human: a mystery
Par John Gray. 2003
It's 1852 in London, and Edmund Whitty, dissipated tabloid correspondent, has just come up with the name Chokee Bill for…
the fiend who has been choking prostitutes with a white silk scarf. With the arrest of William Ryan for the crime, the city can breathe again, but Whitty discovers that the murders are continuing. While fighting off his creditors and his addictions, he endeavours to find the real Chokee Bill, greeted with hostility on all sides. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.The falling woman: stories (Vintage Tales Ser.)
Par Shaena Lambert. 2002
Ten short stories that loosely circle the motif of the falling woman. Never quite fallen - always in transition -…
she insists on plunging into the forbidden: marching down Main Street topless or seducing married men. These stories examine the universal themes of love, loss, and healing. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002.The fashion committee: a novel of art, crime, and applied design
Par Susan Juby. 2017
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.