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A village mouse and a field mouse fall in love with the same pumpkin. One wants to enter the pumpkin…
in a contest and the other wants to carve it into a jack-o'-lantern. Preschool to grade 2. 1984.
A collection of essays by historian Harold Innis on the role of media in the creation of history. Discusses the…
concepts of medium, bias, monopoly of knowledge, empire, and the oral tradition. This edition includes a new introduction to Innis' career, the development of his ideas, and an assessment of his influence on the study of communications theory and Canadian history. 1991, c1951.
Like any good Scot, Willie MacCrimmon loves to curl. He and his rink are so accomplished that they have attracted…
the attention of the Devil, himself a keen curler. In fact, the Devil wants Willie on his team. He'll make sure that Willie wins the Brier -- if Willie will curl for the Devil in the Celestial Brier. Some strong language. 1993.
As a journalist, Auger has observed and reported upon the growth of the biker gangs and their increasing involvement in…
organized crime. He has written a number of articles that exposed the Hells Angels' links to the Mafia; articles that he knows enraged the bikers enough to have him killed. This is an account of his life as a crime reporter, with particular attention to his brush with death when he was shot in the back six times with a pistol equipped with a silencer, and the events that followed. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.
Hugh Wellesley is risking everything to win back his business when the body of Sylvie Mathieson is found stabbed and…
bound. Years before she had been the love of Hugh's life, and he falls under suspicion. He insists that his relationship with her was innocent, yet he is not telling the truth. He had been her lover again, but the attempt to recapture a golden past had turned into a deeply unhappy affair. The evidence against him continues to mount. Sequel to " The Covenant". Followed by "The Sacrifice". 2003.
The Pattersons' home is so jam-packed with things that there's hardly room for the Pattersons themselves. But building an extension…
is no easy matter, even with the neighbours' help - and especially when the concrete is the quick-setting kind! Grades K-3. 1997.
There was never any hope for Mrs Marsh's Christmas party; Mary was recently bereaved and her sister Barbara had recently…
discovered her husband's infidelity. Both were deeply unhappy and the children looked only for understanding. 1980.
The story of a disenchanted postgraduate student who decides to study "the messiness of real life" by writing a biography…
of a great biographer. Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: disconnected type-scripts, bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of photographs. Phineas feels he is hunting shadows: his mind tracks the journeys of his subjects to the deserts of Africa and the maelstroms of the Arctic, where the shapes of myth meet the patterns of science. In the process he also puzzles out his own future - but which woman will guide him out of the labyrinth? Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2000.
When 12-year-old Ben visits his uncle in Oregon for the first time in ten years, he becomes caught up in…
the strained relationship between his mother and her brother. Ben also becomes interested in the girl next door and in making his future as an artist. Grades 5-8. 1999.
The family of the second artificial heart recipient tells the dramatic story of their participation in an extraordinary medical experiment.…
Details the day-to-day events, including post-operative setbacks, unrelenting scrutiny by the press, confrontations with the surgeon, and their own struggle to cope. 1987.
Detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown search for the killer of a nun. The strangled woman had breast implants and…
an unconventional background, moving between her pious charitable order and a freewheeling secular life. 1999.
As dawn breaks on a small island late in the summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the…
final preparations for his daughter's birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant, he tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy, as his private doctor - and oldest friend - is standing by to perform the procedure. Intersperses the events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon's rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris. Some descriptions of sex. 2007.
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.
This book is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It introduces Boone…
Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature. Originally published 1947, c2002.
Setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged, Reggie's therapy centre nurtures its clients, encouraging them to find…
the love and goodness that lurks deep inside. Reggie has gathered together the unlikeliest of staff to help him and with a team like this how can the indomitable, unconventional RIP ever fail in his last bid to create a Better World? 1990.
A thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion, this is the story of Shahid, a…
young man from the provinces who has come to London planning to further his education. His prospects take a turn for the worse when he becomes involved with Deedee Osgood, a college lecturer and, when a gangster on the run from his enemies moves into his bedsit. Caught between liberalism and fundamentalism, he has to find his place in the world and come of age. Includes strong language. 1995.
In ‘A very wicked headmistress’, Tatiana Taffeta runs a boarding school for the spoilt daughters of the very rich. She…
marries a rich farmer, Fendalton Bassett. But he has one fault - he keeps falling in love with other women. So Tatiana decides to do something about it ... with the help of some very sticky custard, some sparkling diamonds and some very clever schoolgirls. In ‘The birthday burglar’, although Bassington is a boy with everything he could wish for, including an island of his own and a butler to look after him, he is bored. He realises that he has never had a birthday so he resolves to steal other people's birthdays - he becomes a birthday burglar. 1984.
As she endures the nightly Allied bombings and the privations of war with her mother and brother in 1945 Germany,…
ten-year-old Ingeborg Maas has faith that her soldier father will return alive from the front. Ingeborg's courage sustains her family through the terrible final days of the war. 1994.
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the…
fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. 2014.