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The game of silence (Birchbark House Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Louise Erdrich. 2005
It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's…
days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The Birchbark House" (DC21985). c2005.The gates of the sun
Par Sharon Butala. 1986
The garden of Eden: A Novel
Par Sharon Butala. 1998
Jolted out of her complacency by death, grief over lost love, and guilt over her aging mother, Iris leaves her…
Saskatchewan farm to find her niece Lannie. She hopes that Lannie, who is now in famine-stricken Ethiopia, will hold the key to self-understanding. 1998.The further adventures of Slugger McBatt: baseball stories
Par W. P Kinsella. 1988
The first principles of dreaming
Par Beth Goobie. 2014
It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at…
the Waiting for the Rapture End Times Tabernacle, regularly has visions, foams at the mouth, and falls down rigid. Her father, a popular deacon, hides his abuse behind a Sunday morning facade. Mary-Eve herself appears to be a dutiful teenager, her entire life regulated by the rules of their church. But inside she’s biding her time, waiting for emancipation from her family's strictures and secrets. That day comes when she befriends Dee Eccles, an eighteen-year-old pagan goddess from the other side of everything. 2014.The freedom in American songs: stories
Par Kathleen Winter. 2014
The forty days of Musa Dagh (Verba Mundi, international literature series ; #20)
Par Franz Werfel, James Reidel, Geoffrey Dunlop. 2012
Werfel's masterpiece brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story…
of how the people of several Armenian villages chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police while holding out hope for the warships of the Allies to save them. 2012. Uniform title: Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh.The foundling
Par Georgette Heyer. 1948
A sheltered, disenchanted, young duke eludes his protectors and sets out to enjoy the robust life of Regency England. He…
encounters many experiences for which he had not bargained, including a serenely beautiful woman who becomes the decoy for a ruthless blackmailer. 1948.The five books of Moses Lapinsky
Par Karen X Tulchinsky. 2003
In 2003, a mild-mannered historian named Moses Lapinsky begins to write a biography of his father, a famous Jewish-Canadian boxer…
named Sonny. His research takes him from the 1930's to the 1950's, as he describes the fortunes of the Lapinsky family. In particular, it was the events of August 1933, at the riot at Christie Pits Park, which changed the lives of all four Lapinsky brothers forever. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.The French Isles
Par Claire Mowat. 1994
Andrea Baxter's summer in Anderson's Arm, a fishing village in Newfoundland, turns to unexpected adventure, when she, her cousin, and…
her uncle are arrested for illegal scallop dragging by the St. Pierre et Miquelon coast guard. Once they're rescued from the police station, Andrea ends up staying on St. Pierre, finding mystery, adventure, and romance. Grades 5-8. 1994.The free world
Par David Bezmozgis. 2011
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching toward peace, and in the streets of Rome,…
strange new creatures have appeared: thousands of Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among them are the Krasnansky family: Samuil, an old communist and Red Army veteran; Karl, his eldest son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; his younger son, Alec, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2011.The four seasons of Patrick
Par Susan Hughes. 2013
It's the start of winter, and Patrick is beginning to feel crowded out of his own family. His father's friend,…
Linda, and her seven-year-old daughter, Claire, are coming for dinner again. By the time spring arrives, not only is Patrick's father planning to marry Linda, but she and Claire will be coming to live with them at the summer's end. That just won’t do. So Patrick comes up with a big idea. He'll build a tree house where he can stretch out his arms and breathe. Grades 3-6. 2013.The Friday Society
Par Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The frozen Thames
Par Helen Humphreys. 2007
In its long history, the River Thames has frozen solid forty times. These stories are based on events that actually…
took place each time the river froze between 1142 and 1895. From Queen Matilda trying to escape her besieged castle in a snowstorm and lovers meeting on the frozen river in the plague years, to a simple farmer persuading his oxen the ice is safe and Queen Bess discovering the rare privacy afforded by the ice-covered Thames, the moments are fleeting but transformative for the characters. 2007.The four wise men
Par Ralph Manheim, Michel Tournier. 1991
The legend of the Magi is one of the most potent episodes in the Christian tradition: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar,…
each in quest of what he loved most and lost. The author departs from the bible story with his addition of Taor, the fourth king, who came too late to the Nativity. Descriptions of sex. 1991.The friends of meager fortune
Par David Adams Richards. 2006
Postwar New Brunswick. Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a…
fortune-teller - that her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2006.The Frumkiss family business: a megilla in 14 chapters
Par Michael Wex. 2010
The Frumkiss family doesn't look much different from any of the others in Toronto's Bathurst Manor: Grandpa survived the Holocaust;…
Grandma the Second came from Poland at the age of five; Dad's a foot doctor; Mom is dead; and her mother - Grandma Number One - died while giving birth to her in Kazakhstan. As far as the Frumkisses know, all that distinguishes them from anybody else is that Grandpa is a famous Yiddish writer who ended up working for the CBC. But Grandpa's death sets off a chain of events that force the Frumkisses to see how different their family is from all the others. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language. 2010.The foreign correspondent: a novel
Par Alan Furst. 2006
In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.The first quarter of the moon
Par Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.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.