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Cape Breton Road
Par D. R MacDonald. 2000
It is the late 1970s, and nineteen-year-old Innis Corbett is deported from his home near Boston for car theft and…
returned to his mother's birthplace on Cape Breton Island to stay with his uncle Starr. Desperate to get away, Innis starts to grow a secret cash crop of marijuana and looks for a car to steal. When Starr's girlfriend comes to stay while fleeing another relationship, a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between the two men that leads ultimately to violence. 2000.Bright orange for the shroud (Travis McGee series. #Vol. 6)
Par John D MacDonald. 1965
Detective Travis McGee has never met an underdog quite like Arthur Wilkinson. Arthur has apparently been tricked into marriage by…
a sweet young woman who turns out to be neither so young nor so sweet. 1965. (Travis McGee mystery)Black coffee: a Hercule Poirot novel (Hercule Poirot Mystery Ser.)
Par Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne. 1998
Osborne has adapted this novel from a play written by Agatha Christie in 1930. Scientist Sir Claud Amory believes someone…
in his house is trying to steal an important formula he has developed. He asks Hercule Poirot to come to his Surrey home and take the formula back to London. But when Poirot arrives, he finds Amory dead and soon identifies numerous suspects. 1998.Aunt Dimity and the duke (Aunt Dimity series #No. 2)
Par Nancy Atherton. 1994
When forty-year-old Emma's longtime lover suddenly gets married to a younger woman, she decides to take some time to herself,…
touring the gardens of England. Through strange coincidence and contrivance, she arrives at a mansion in Cornwall with a long-neglected chapel garden. The mystery of a missing lantern with legendary powers, a drowned rock star, and the spirt of Dimity Westwood stir up the mixture with romance. 1994.Aunt Dimity goes West (Aunt Dimity series)
Par Nancy Atherton. 2007
No sooner has Lori arrived at her Colorado vacation home, the Aerie, when things go amiss. The caretaker has disappeared;…
the townspeople are hiding a secret. Is the Aerie cursed or is a sinister human hand at work? With Aunt Dimity's help, Lori sets out to solve a 100-year-old mystery. 2007.Aunt Dimity and the deep blue sea (Aunt Dimity series #No. 11)
Par Nancy Atherton. 2006
England. Lori Shepherd's attorney husband, Bill, receives death threats, presumably from a vengeful former client. While Bill stays in London…
to help Scotland Yard, Lori and her twin sons seek refuge at a remote Scottish island estate, where she relies on Aunt Dimity's supernatural help to investigate mysterious occurrences. 2006.Ash
Par David Walker. 1976
Soldier of fortune, member of the Canadian establishment, now wanted for murder, Ash is on the run in the New…
Brunswick bush. An exciting novel with marvellous descriptions of the Canadian woods. 1976.Annabel
Par Kathleen Winter. 2010
Coastal Labrador, 1968. A mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but…
both at once. Together the parents and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina, make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as Annabel - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2010.Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Alligator: A Novel
Par Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.An audience of chairs: a novel
Par Joan Clark. 2005
Moranna MacKenzie lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness. Highly creative, she plays the…
piano, sings, writes, sculpts, and bakes - all perfectly - but also behaves erratically and alienates her friends and family. Still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously, she then learns that one of them is about to get married. 2005.An autobiography
Par Agatha Christie. 1977
Agatha Christie enjoyed a happy childhood abroad and in Torquay, she tells of her first marriage to Colonel Christie, entered…
into under the pressures of the First World War, and her immensely happy second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan; another career in the theatre, her houses and gardens. 1977.All through the night: A Suspense Story
Par Mary Higgins Clark. 1998
It has been seven years since Sondra Lewis left her newborn baby in front of a church; simultaneously Lenny Centino…
was stealing a chalice from it. Now as amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan tries to help the church's priest and nuns save their after school haven, she uncovers a connection between those events and a child at the centre. Bestseller. 1998.All the men are sleeping: collected fiction
Par D. R MacDonald. 2002
Short stories of Cape Breton Island that explore the misunderstanding between men and women, the nature of seduction and infidelity,…
and the heartache of longing. For a fisherman in "The flowers of Bermuda", time has not repaid the loss of his young son's life. In the title story, the compassion of a rural doctor imperils a horse and a woman the doctor once loved. Some strong language. 2002.A shred of evidence (Seaport suspense. #1.)
Par Kathy Herman. 2005
The story of Anna Elisabeth, one of the settlers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In 1753 Lunenburg is a rocky hillside…
of forest, not the prepared homesteads she and her family had been expecting. With no shelter, no crops planted, and no experience at frontier life, how will she survive and thrive in her new home? c2010.A fit month for dying
Par Myrtis T Dohaney. 2000
Tess Corrigan is a popular politician. Originally from a coastal village, she now lives in St. John's with her husband…
and twelve-year-old son. Urged on by her mother-in-law, she decides to track her bigamous father down. Preoccupied with this and her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble until a decision triggers a series of betrayals and revelations that forever change her family and the village of The Cove. 2000.4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple Ser. #No. 9)
Par Agatha Christie. 2002
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth was sure she witnessed…
a murder. What else could it have been? As she stared helplessly out of her carriage window, a man had remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. 2002.The doctor's sweetheart and other stories
Par L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.The second time around
Par Mary Higgins Clark. 2003
Lynn Spencer asks financial reporter Carley DeCarlo, her stepsister, to investigate the case of Lynn's missing husband, Nick. Nick's medical…
research company, which may have been on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer, has been left nearly bankrupt by Nick's disappearance along with substantial corporate assets. 2003.