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Canadian fiction, East coast fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Helen is a woman shattered by the drowning death of her husband, Cal. Now in her mid-50s and reconciled to…
loneliness, Helen sews prom and wedding dresses for a living and cares for her grandchildren. After having spent half a lifetime picking up the pieces after Cal's death, she has taken the major step of renovating the house, and finds herself unexpectedly stirred by the presence of her carpenter, Barry. 2009.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, East coast fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
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.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
Automated braille
Ten short stories of heartbreak and getting through it. Includes stories of a husband's memory of an early piercing love…
affair, a mother and her infant boy getting knocked down by the force of a fire hose, and the interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake. 2002.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
Human-narrated audio
Flannery Malone's been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since they were kids, but Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid…
into an outlaw graffiti artist, too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. Meanwhile, Flannery’s mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book, her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control, and her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about - Flannery included - leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumours that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent - and potentially damaging - than any fairy-tale prescription. For senior high readers. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Family stories
Human-narrated audio
Conveying the strains of family life and love in Newfoundland, this collection of short stories uses images of light and…
darkness to bring its characters to life. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.
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Adventure stories, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
Human-narrated audio
June 1978. David Slaney's escaped from prison and has got to make good on the heist that went wrong, win…
back the woman he loves, and make a big enough profit to buy himself a new life. First, though, he must get himself across a vast country full of watchful eyes, booby traps, and friends who might be foes. And then, on to Colombia, where the real test of his mettle begins. 2013.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from…
the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John's and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship - in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man's last day on earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. 'Something for everyone' finds Moore fired with peak ambition - she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself. 2018.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories
Human-narrated audio
" Juin 1978. David Slaney vient de séchapper dune prison de Nouvelle-Écosse où il purgeait une peine pour trafic de…
cannabis entre la Colombie et le Canada. Son obsession : retrouver son meilleur ami, Hearn, à Vancouver, pour tenter une seconde fois un gros coup et reconquérir sa petite amie. Le voici donc lancé dans une course effrénée à travers le pays, la police à ses trousses. Porté par la beauté de la langue de Lisa Moore et des personnages lumineux, Piégé nous raconte une histoire de courage et de trahison, de tempêtes en haute mer, damour, dagents secrets, de collusion entre le gouvernement et le crime organisé, dambition sans borne, de linnocence et de sa perte, et de centaines de ballots de marijuana. Il y est surtout question du sentiment dinvincibilité qui vient avec la jeunesse, et des folies quil occasionne. Après le très émouvant Février, Lisa Moore nous revient avec un roman dune tout autre facture, un périple irrésistible qui nous entraîne de lAtlantique au Pacifique, des côtes de Terre-Neuve jusquaux plages du Mexique. Une aventure trépidante. Envoûtante. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Caught.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
Human-narrated audio
Flannery, seize ans, est amoureuse de Tyrone O'Rourke depuis toujours. Depuis la maternelle, plus précisément, mais c'est du pareil au…
même. Jumelée à Tyrone pour un projet d'entrepreneuriat, Flannery est aux anges ! Et quand il lui propose de fabriquer des potions d'amour, elle accepte sans hésiter, des papillons dans le ventre. S'agit-il d'une déclaration voilée ? Est-ce que lui aussi pense à elle depuis leurs jeux d'enfants, bien avant qu'il se mette à sécher les cours et à faire des graffitis aux quatre coins de la ville ? On peut bien rêver... Évidemment, la vraie vie n'a rien d'un rêve, et ça, Flannery ne le sait que trop bien. Depuis quelque temps, on dirait que rien ne va. Il y a sa mère qui ignore comment elle paiera le prochain loyer, son frère qui n'est pas de tout repos et sa meilleure amie, Amber, qui ne semble plus avoir une seule minute à lui accorder. Et il y a Tyrone, bien sûr, qui disparaît toujours en coup de vent et qui n'est plus tout à fait le Tyrone qu'elle a connu. Au milieu de tout ça, Flannery doit se débrouiller toute seule, et elle commence à en avoir marre. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2016.