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Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe house, with a mother who is a…
compulsive hoarder. Bun has had little contact with the outside world - what she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in the boxes and bags her mother brings home. When Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland. Fortunately, the first person she meets is Busker Boy, a street musician who senses her naivety and takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters: Chef, a hotel dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a drag queen with a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic school girl desperately trying to reinvent herself; and The Landlord, a man who Bun is told to avoid at all cost. Through her experiences with her new roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family. For senior high readers. 2017.
In the waning months of 1956, while Russian tanks roll into the public squares of Budapest to crush the Hungarian…
Revolution, brothers Robert and Attila Beck flee with their family to the Paris townhouse of their great-aunt Hermina. As they travel through minefields both real and imagined, Robert and Attila grapple with sibling rivalry, family secrets, and incalculable loss to arrive at a place they thought they’d lost forever: home. c2014.
Ten-year-old twins Casey and Lacey's adventures continue when they use their magical machine to turn a model speedboat into a…
life-size motorboat to enter a race in San Francisco, and catch the attention of a villain from their past. Sequel to “The adventures of Vin Fiz”. Grades 3-6. 2010.
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, this book follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a…
philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War. Some descriptions of sex. 2001. (Roads to freedom ; 1)
The story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a treasure. He journeys to the…
markets of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. This story teaches us about the wisdom of listening to our hearts, reading the omens along life's path and following our dreams. Bestseller. 1998. Uniform title: Alquimista.
A selection of Robert Fisk's 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. Fisk is best known for his writing about the…
Middle East, its wars, dictators and international relations, but these 'Comment' articles cover an array of topics, from his soldier grandfather to handwriting to the Titanic, terrorism and Iraq. c2008.
Set in small town Ontario and spanning three generations, this is a poignant and wryly humorous novel of Howard Wheeler's…
search for self-understanding. Born to a failed hockey player who briefly played for the Montreal Maroons, Howard grew up caught between his carousing father and his tight-lipped mother. 1995.
The airman is Charles Lindbergh, famous for his historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; the carpenter a…
German immigrant, Richard Hauptmann. The tragic link between the two names is the kidnap and death of Lindbergh's baby son. The author investigates the justice or otherwise of the case. 1985.
Based on his father's bestselling book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Sean Covey applies the same principles to…
teens, including be proactive; begin with the end in mind; put first things first; and think win-win. He includes humour, innovative ideas, quotes, and stories about real teens from all over the world. He even includes a section titled "The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens," which includes some, shall we say, counterproductive practices. For junior and senior high readers. 1998.
Portraits of the author's two ninety-three-year-old grandmothers, "the strongest women I know." Depicts their immigrant origins, their struggles through hard…
times, their rich and often troubled family histories, their traditional values and ideas, and their continued active lives. 1996.
A compilation of 44 memorable and beloved children's books, containing classics, bestsellers, medal winners and family favourites. Goodnight Moon, a…
small set of Helen Oxenbury's board books, a Berenstain Bears entry, and other short pieces for the very youngest children are mixed with Stellaluna, The Stinky Cheese Man, Madeline, and older and newer favourites. Grades P-2. 1998.
Over a meal of fish, potatoes, and wild mushrooms foraged outside their cabin in British Columbia, the authors decide to…
embark on a year of eating food grown within 100 miles of their Vancouver apartment. They begin an exploration of the foodways of the Pacific Northwest, learn to can their own vegetables, and reconnect with local growers, fishermen, and ranchers to know where their food comes from and who has produced it. They also lose weight, bicker, and down hefty quantities of white wine from local vineyards. Some strong language. 2007.
One freezing winter morning, the dead body of Anu Krishnan is found in the Dharma family’s backyard. Anu was renting…
the Dharma’s ‘back-house’ as a quiet writing retreat and had become friends with Vikram Dharma’s quiet second wife, Suman. But her arrival changed the balance of the household, as Varsha, Vikram’s daughter, deeply affected by her mother’s death and desperate to keep her new family together, becomes increasingly suspicious of Anu’s relationship with her stepmother. Some strong language. 2011.
The author presents the results of a decade he spent applying Ayurvedic concepts to the American way of life, including…
exercise, eating habits, and stress prevention techniques. The diet follows nature's harvest: low fat in the spring, high carbohydrates in the summer, and high protein and fat in the winter. 2000.
A young girl, growing up in Toronto during the Great Depression of the 1930s, knows that Christmas will pass without…
gifts and turkey dinner. Grades 4-7. Followed by "With love from Booky." 1981.
The story of Tess is the story of how a guide dog is trained, from her early days as a…
puppy to the moment, 18 months later, when she is handed over to her blind owner, Mary. 1981.
