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A collection of newspaper essays by Montrealer Joe Fiorito, who won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for these columns. You'll…
meet Milo who is seven and having the lousiest day of his life, Jackie of the Ritz, chambermaid to the stars, and Nantha, single father, man about town, as well as many others. 1997.
Discusses endangered species and endangered spaces such as condors, orchids and rain forests. Includes practical ideas on how to take…
action and various programs that some schools have tried. Grades 4-7. 1992.
After fleeing revolutionary Russia, Tania's family settled in Estonia. Tania and her brother grew up in semi-poverty, raised by aunts…
and servants while their mother, Baroness Budberg, had love affairs with H.G. Wells, Robert Bruce Lockhart, Maxim Gorky, and other well-known figures. Previously published as "A little of all these". 1988, c1987. Uniform title: Little of all these
A Congressional Medal of Honor winner, Owney returns home from Vietnam, marries and takes up where he left off--building tunnels…
for a living and hitting the bars every night. Although he has potential, Owney is trapped by his drinking and his traditions. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.
Charis, the courageous princess from Atlantis, escapes the terrible devastation of her land and encounters the fabled seer and druid…
prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of age. An incomparable love joins the two worlds, and spawns the miracles of Merlin . . . and Arthur the king. Followed by "Merlin" (DC11509). c1987. (The Pendragon cycle ; book 1)
The first part of the book tells the story of a young Amazon Munduruku boy, Kaxi, raised to be a…
shaman. In the second part, the author describes how he came to the city of Sao Paulo as a young man, and experienced culture shock and racism. The last part provides information about the Munduruku and other Amazon people and their ways of living. Grades 2-4. 2000, 1996. Uniform title: Histórias de índio.
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.
The original Tim Horton's founders - Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tim Horton, doughnut entrepreneur Jim Charade, and Nova Scotia born…
franchise wizard Ron Joyce - are all profiled in this examination of the marketing strategies behind Canada's most popular coffee-and-doughnuts chain. Look behind the invention of the apple fritter and the raisin dutchie, how timbits are made, or the origins of "Roll Up the Rim to Win". 2003.
An introduction to the growing polarization within Christianity and its relationship with the modern world. With a warning against the…
ongoing retreat into fundamentalism and exclusivity, the reader is pointed, instead, toward inclusivity and compassion. 2002.
Effie Pealing is alternately embraced, then rebuffed, by London society. Her final flirtation with high society comes when she lets…
known her intention to publish her memoirs. A regency romance. c1979.
Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find…
a Post-It note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence, while the burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man's land between the police and the villains. Sequel to "Red herring", followed by "Paradise City". 2011.
This story is centered around the takeover of a family-owned distillery. When one frail woman stands in the way of…
a business deal, the spectre of murder stalks the lavish homes of the moneyed class. 1978.
Living in a village near Dublin, Tansy's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand. Raleigh Devereaux, the English…
youth to whom Tansy first offers her heart, treats her as a plaything: Michael O'Faolain, for whom she has affection but no love, never comprehends her need to be true to herself. Not until disaster strikes the land do events conspire to bring Tansy face to face with reality, and with the complexities of her own nature. 1999, c1975. (Malone trilogy ; 1)
A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the school. He was a good man.…
People liked him. So how could this happen? Why? It just doesn't make sense to Jackson, and he is determined to investigate the case until he understands. Junior High. 2007.
This captivating memoir explores the relationship between the author and her young granddaughter, whose questions about Figes's upbringing unwittingly opens…
a door into the author's privileged childhood in Germany. But when the Nazis rose to power, Figes and her family fled to England, leaving her own grandparents behind. 2003.
Rolf Harris presents a collection of true animal tales featuring the cleverest and cheekiest animals and birds you'll ever meet.…
These tales include: Pepsi, the cat who hitched a 70mph ride on a van roof; the sheep dog who rounds up stray supermarket trolleys; the seals who saved a woman from drowning; and Barney, the police dog who was afraid of the dark. 2001.
Hannah has known how hard the world is. Thrown into the workhouse by a cousin to whom her father entrusted…
her, she is determined to make the most of life. But when she loses the man she loves she's seduced into a violent marriage with no escape. 2000.
This book contains three linked sections to enable students to work with and understand the Tarot cards and their relationship…
with astrology, numerology, and the Cabala. The sections include basic lessons and meditations; positive and negative interpretation; and divination. 1995.