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An elderly man is carried into the emergency department of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s, setting off a…
chain of events that leaves doctors mystified. He is the first of many victims suffering from severe nosebleeds and excruciating pain. Dr. Luke Gillespie and Nurse Agatha Catania investigate their symptoms but are unable to diagnose them. The only thing they have in common is Sgt. Nicholas Myra, an investigator with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary.Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra join forces to solve this twisted mystery. But the story takes a critical turn when Sister Pius, a nun from Mercy Convent, informs them about Wormwood: a disease she believes is created by God to kill perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. Wormwood becomes an international media storm when parish priest Father Peter Cooke holds a news conference on the steps of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist and announces that God has unleashed a plague upon the earth.Is God truly punishing these criminals, or is a serial killer targeting them? Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra race to find answers, while the Roman Catholic hierarchy starts bringing people back to the Church in droves . . . by cashing in on what it claims to be a miracle.
When Laura gets a letter from Malcolm, her new Australian penfriend, she is excited and shows his letter to all…
her friends at school. But when the letters suddenly stop, Laura discovers that Malcolm is blind. Can they still be penfriends, and how can their letters be private and confidential? Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.
Tommy is a young boy with sight loss and a big imagination. When he's told he's too young to get…
a guide dog, he imagines what it would be like to have other animals as a guide, but soon learns the pitfalls that come with each one.
Larkin Day is a messed up 15-year-old. She just escaped a nasty Grade 10 year to spend summer with her…
grandmother in seaside Nova Scotia. It's the perfect setting to seek healing by putting all her energies into a local caf? project. If you're hurting, she learns, one of the best solutions is to invest yourself in something that can make you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself. But when an arsonist attempts to destroy the project, Larkin is forced to figure out a way to expose the criminal while keeping her life from coming off the rails again.
Alex is an eight-year-old boy who likes milk shakes, swimming, and funny jokes, but his favourite thing is sailing. Includes…
sailing terms. This book Includes Braille, print and raised line drawings which are enhanced by tactile objects. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2011.
This story of Skip the dog describes his life until he becomes a guide dog for Natalie. This book Includes…
Braille, print and raised line drawings which are enhanced by tactile objects. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2007.
Davey, a blind student, refuses all help from his new classmates, even while playing kickball at recess, until they find…
a way to help without doing everything for him. Grades K-3. 2007.
Everyone in Angus' family has his own instrument and knows how to make music, but Angus can only hum along…
to his family's playing. When the time comes for him to choose an instrument of his very own, he picks the fiddle. Will he ever be able to master such a difficult instrument? Grades K-3. 2001.
Katie and her guide dog Cocoa go to a sports camp run by the Ontario Blind Sports Association. They spend…
a week with other blind and low-vision kids (and some of the instructors), learning judo, lawn bowling, goalball, wrestling, and track and field. Based on the author's own experiences at sports camp. The story is written in both Braille and print and is illustrated in raised line drawings. Grades K-3. 2008.
Katie and her guide dog Cocoa experience a typical day at school. The story is written in both Braille and…
print and is illustrated in raised line drawings. Grades K-3. 2005.
Katie, Daniel and their guide dogs Cocoa and Dory spend a day at the zoo. They are taken on a…
tour where they stroke birds and meet monkeys. Includes tactile illustrations, presented in print and Braille. Grades K-3. 2005.
Abby is bored while waiting for her mother to finish her shopping, until she meets Joanna and her guide dog,…
Charlie. Though he is great at helping Joanna to "see", he can't help with choosing a special outfit for an important and mysterious event. When Abby saves the day, she also discovers that wishing for rainbows can be magical. Grades K-3 and old readers. 2005.
Sable Island is home to hundreds of wild horses, and thousands of seals and birds. Yet fewer than ten people…
live there. Because it is far from the mainland, people rarely have a chance even to visit this amazing Canadian island made of sand. Imagine you are one of those rare visitors! Grades K-3.
L'auteur fait revivre la mémoire de celle qui a tenu la barre de sa maison durant vingt ans. Madame perfecta…
dont la jeunesse dans l'Espagne franquiste fut marquée par des drames secrets et de grandes passions est l'héroine de ce roman qui, entre vie réelle et vie rêvée, brosse le portrait d'une femme d'exception
Il y a, sur une île éloignée, une famille qui lutte pour freiner l'inéluctable exode. Alors que le nombre d'habitants…
et de bateaux diminue, les Connor s'attendent au pire. Cora tue le temps en décorant les maisons abandonnées aux couleurs de pays lointains, tandis que ses parents sont contraints d'accepter un emploi en alternance au loin. Puis il y a Finn, l'ingénieux garçon du clan qui, du haut de ses onze ans, toise la tempête qui se profile à l'horizon. Il ne laissera pas sa famille cabossée couler ainsi. Il fera revenir les poissons. Porté par un imaginaire vif et salin, « Les chants du large » nous emporte sur les rivages du réel avec l'aplomb tranquille des loups de mer. Emma Hooper, l'auteure acclamée d'Etta et Otto (et Russell et James), mélange ici le caractère épique des légendes d'autrefois et un juste portrait de ces gens qui ont confié leur vie à la mer.
Parc national de Kouchibouguac : un endroit très prisé des amateurs de plein-air, mais aussi un drame social interminable qui…
est devenu, 50 ans plus tard, le sujet de ce roman enlevant où l'histoire contemporaine est racontée dans un style qui mélange le réalisme magique à l'univers parfois tordu de la fonction publique et des médias. L'auteur relate avec brio les tristes évènements de 1969 quand les gens de 7 villages côtiers du Nouveau-Brunswick furent injustement expropriés de leurs logis, dont les célèbres Jackie et Yvonne Vautour.
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.
The fish have mysteriously disappeared, and in the fishing village of Big Running most families had no choice but to…
relocate and find work elsewhere. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. Plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between Aidan and Martha only widens. Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish, and is aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. Callaghan. Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses but--desperate for a bigger life beyond the small town--takes matters into her own hands. 2018.
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.