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Michaela, Nicholas, and the Covert Eyes Team bring their differing areas of expertise to investigate the killing by drone of…
the German vice chancellor on the steps of 10 Downing Street. They soon learn that they are up against a descendent of the man known as Dracula. Violence and some strong language. 2018
Two factions continue to war for control of the Named Lands. The struggle between the Andro-Francine Order and the Y'Zirite…
Empire reaches a terrible turning point. Sequel to Requiem (DB 77224). 2017
Heiress Eve Chandler has had a crush on tattoo artist Gabe Hunter, her brother Nicholas's best friend, for years. The…
wedding of Nicholas and Livvy Kane forces the pair together, but both have family history to work through. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018
In the red-light district of Amsterdam, a Surinamese émigré pimp, a man of extraordinary power, is found murdered. Dutch cops…
Grijpstra and de Gier find they have a particularly difficult case on their hands as they scour the bizarre, seamy city within a city. Some strong language. 1983
Le rôle de l'alcool dans la vie en société, que ce soit sous forme de vin, de bière ou de…
spiritueux, fut constant et souvent controversé. Rod Phillips jette dans cet ouvrage un regard original sur les mœurs et les mentalités en matière de consommation d'alcool. Il embrasse neuf mille ans d'histoire économique et culturelle et lève le voile sur les tensions qui existèrent entre les produits sains des régimes alimentaires quotidiens et les objets d'inquiétude sociale, politique et religieuse que sont les boissons alcooliques. Dans les villes d'Europe et d'Amérique, l'alcool fut perçu comme aussi salubre que l'eau non traitée; il devint la boisson privilégiée, mais les autorités gouvernementales et religieuses le soumirent à plus de règlements que tout autre produit. Comme source potentielle de perturbations sociales, la consommation d'alcool créa des frontières capricieuses d'acceptabilité et d'inacceptabilité et transcenda les barrières de classe, de race et de sexe. Rod Phillips traque les significations culturelles toujours mouvantes de ces puissantes boissons et en arrive à un étonnant raisonnement : certaines sociétés sont entrées dans des phases. Son livre est le premier à examiner et à expliquer les significations et les influences de l'alcool avec une telle profondeur, sur une telle durée et dans une perspective mondiale.
The power of the bound Twins is growing, and the ragtag group gathered by the priest Joros to combat them…
decides to change tactics. Sequel to In the Shadow of the Gods (DB 86313). Violence and some strong language. 2017
Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod’s 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation - winning the…
Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes, and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of White classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now, elementary teacher; now, school principal; now, head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now, executive in the Government of Canada - and now, a celebrated author. Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod’s unquenchable spirit, Peyakow - a title borrowed from the Cree word for “one who walks alone” - is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod’s perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/White chasm resonates with particular force in today’s Canada.
An account of the fates of those aboard the Seaflower, the Mayflower's sister ship. In 1630, these passengers founded a…
Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. The author examines what went wrong as the experiment failed. 2017
Social scientist Martin Granger plunges from his Manhattan townhouse terrace to his death on a sharp fence below. Did he…
fall or was he pushed? And was reporter Astrid Cain, acting as secretary to Granger and writing an exposé of him, involved? Astrid's ex-lover is head of the investigating team. Some strong language. Edgar Award. 1980
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster…
trilogy. In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex - a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. Even though he's got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking. And he's got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn't involve weed cookies, and somehow live peacefully with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to "rescue" him as a baby from his mother. An indigenous activist and writer, Mave smothers him with pet names and hugs, but she is blind to the real dangers that lurk around them - the spirits and supernatural activity that fill her apartment. As the son of a Trickster, Jared is a magnet for magic, whether he hates it or not - he sees ghosts, he sees the monster moving underneath his Aunt Georgina's skin, he sees the creature that comes out of his bedroom wall and creepily wants to suck his toes. He also still hears the Trickster in his head, and other voices too. When the David situation becomes a crisis, Jared can't ignore his true nature any longer.
Travis Long and Lisa Donnelly must defend the Star Kingdom and the Royal Manticoran Navy from both outside enemies and…
those within Manticore's government. Meanwhile, the anti-Navy faction within Parliament grows. Sequel to A Call to Arms (DB 84094). Violence and strong language. 2015
Physicist Johnson and materials scientist Meany present an explanation of graphene, which is a member of the carbon family. Discusses…
its discovery, ways it is being used in everyday life, technological disruption it is causing, and potential uses for it in the future. 2018
El periodista latino analiza sus experiencias y las de otros inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos a principios del siglo veintiuno,…
particularmente desde la elección de Donald Trump. Examina por qué él y muchos otros se sienten como extraños a pesar de décadas de vivir en Estados Unidos
Every time psychiatrist Sandra Fielding brings a date to her favorite local restaurant, the men wind up in tears, telling…
her about their mommy issues. The bright spot on these dates is hot waiter Alex, but he has a lot of secrets. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2014
La presentadora del popular programa matutino "Despierta América" cuenta su historia de vida. Nacida en el pueblo de Azua en…
la República Dominicana, Lachapel se mudó a los Estados Unidos sola, participando en concursos de belleza y cultivando el amor por el teatro en su ascenso al estrellato televisivo
Prout recounts her own experience of being sexually assaulted when she was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious…
New Hampshire boarding school. Discusses how the school's administration ignored the rape culture that flourished for decades. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018
Seventeen-year-old Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, Prism.…
But when things do not work out, and her abusive uncle comes to stay, Kiko accepts an invitation to tour art schools with a friend. For senior high and older readers. 2017
Niagara Falls is harnessed for electricity, and environmentalists and union agitators fight the power company for control. Louisa Barrett, the…
progressive headmistress of a girls' school, becomes involved when the head engineer is murdered. She suspects the adoptive father of her illegitimate daughter. 1999
Journalist and long-time resident of Paris examines the intersection of food and culture throughout France's history. Discusses historical markets that…
still exist in the twenty-first century, the importance of food in literature as well as in the lives of the writers, the impact of war shortages, and more. 2017
A crime trilogy, originally written in Polish between 2007 and 2014, featuring State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki. Includes Entanglement, A Grain…
of Truth, and Rage, in which Szacki investigates a freshly stripped skeleton found at a construction site in Olsztyn. Some violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016