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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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“Strays” features ten stories that explore the lives of those who somehow find themselves adrift. In “The Strayaway Child” a…
ninety-year-old woman recalls her girlhood during the Great Depression; in “The Red Merc” a boy learns deep truths about his often absent father; and in “The Wind” a Newfoundlander in a big Canadian city struggles with issues of identity. Affecting and often humorous, “Strays” speaks to our desire to belong. c2013.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), War stories
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In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World…
War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. This collection of thirteen linked stories is about this terrible time in history, and of the legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
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In "Sequence", the reader accompanies the poet step after step through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun…
on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's "convulsive beauty." 2015.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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Short stories that explore science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional…
lives. In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” which was nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. And in “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake. 2015.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History
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Three political leaders, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln and John A. Macdonald presided over the reshaping of the North American continent…
during the fiery 1860s. All were Protestants; none came from a wealthy family. They personified an age of social and economic transformation, thrust to the top by the very forces that tore the continent apart. Davis tried to create a country by ripping the South out of the United States and establishing the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's crusade to save the Union honed the industrial-military power that would one day dominate the world. Macdonald led the drive to shepherd the diverse British North American provinces into a federal state that would secure the northern half of the continent and keep Canada out of American hands. The success or failure of the projects would have consequences not only for the long-term future of the continent but for the entire global order. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Historical fiction
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Claire Audette is a dancer whose reputation in the vaudeville houses of 1920s Montreal is rapidly on the rise. Serafim…
Vieria is a photographer and lonely immigrant, wandering the streets of the same city haunted by memories of a lost love in his native Portugal. Around them, the Twenties are roaring, and the metropolis is simmering: corrupt politicians, the burgeoning of jazz, the emerging suffragette movement, fascism in the Italian community, with the English/French divide cleaving through it all. And as Serafim and Claire’s lives begin to intertwine, a dangerous plot forms that could boost both their fortunes. 2014.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Ghost and horror stories
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Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family…
with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local museum, so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. The only problem is that this motley crew hasn't left the house in almost two hundred years and is terrified of going outside. Grades 4-7. 2015.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Historical fiction
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South Africa. Corlie Roux’s farm life is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh, hot…
place, and when her father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted to her sons as she is cruel to her daughter. Corlie finds solace in her friend, Sipho, and in Africa itself, but her world is about to vanish - the British are invading and driving Boer families like hers from their farms. Will Corlie’s resilience and devotion to her country sustain her through the suffering and squalor she finds in the camp at Kroonstad? That may depend on a soldier from faraway Canada and on inner resources Corlie never dreamed she had. For senior high readers. Includes violence. 2011.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Science fiction
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Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era-inspired superhero series, Sputnik…
Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick's origin story. Debbie's never had to make anything up before and she isn't starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie's own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman's Corners - a Rust Belt town voted by Popular Science magazine as "most likely to be nuked" - she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she'd ever loved - as well as her own past - in the process. Or so she believes. 2017.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence…
lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is - and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life. Sequel to "I'll see you in my dreams". 2015.
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Biography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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An autobiography that reviews the author’s accomplishments working - and playing - alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. Relates the…
projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands, which ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Provides an inside view of Canadian publishing that is rarely revealed. Some strong language. 2011.
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Biography, Literature biography
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Despite van Wyk's later becoming involved in the anti-apartheid 'struggle', this is not a book about racial politics. Instead, it…
is a delightful account of one boy's special relationship with the relatives, friends and neighbours - often decidedly quirky - who made up his community, and of the important coping role laughter and humour played during the years he spent in bleak, dusty townships. In the book, the author creates a remarkable record of life in the Coloured community, at once both informative and vastly entertaining. 2005.
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General fiction
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Kate is a young woman who is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions…
as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love. 2016.
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Biography, Literature biography
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Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Skal…
exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that informs every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance and romantic rival, Oscar Wilde. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly gothic detail. 2016.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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When the body of well-liked and respectable Glenda Roberts is discovered at the bottom of a former slate mine, now…
a busy tourist attraction, pandemonium erupts in the North Wales town of Llanelen. Penny Brannigan finds herself drawn into the investigation when jars of her house-brand hand cream are found among counterfeit inventory Glenda and her sister were selling. 2015.
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Family stories
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Molly has arrived home from Vassar to reveal that she has an important announcement to make. Her mother, Suzanne, is…
convinced that Molly's news is history repeating herself, and that she's about to become a thirty-six-year-old grandmother. Suzanne's mother, Ava, develops a case of impending great-grandmother fever - that is, when she's not spying on the new next-door neighbour, Buddy McKinley, who turns out to be a blast from her past. Based on the play. 2014.
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Fantasy
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Fifteen-year-old Izzy Brannick was trained to fight monsters. But when Izzy's older sister vanishes without a trace while on a…
job, Izzy's Mom decides they need to take a break. Izzy and her mother move to a new town, but they soon discover it's not as normal as it appears. A series of hauntings has been plaguing the local high school, and Izzy is determined to prove her worth and investigate. But assuming the guise of an average teenager is easier said than done. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fiction
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When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of…
suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone - or something - that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no one - not even Caffery - can help her face. 2013.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Fifteen years ago a teenage girl is viciously assaulted, the crime never reported. Present day, a man with no ID…
is killed in a hit-and-run, crime never reported. Across the city, a priest and his wife found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman and colleagues are assigned to the case and discover that a sinister evil that dates back decades is the link behind these seemingly unrelated crimes. There's a reason why none of the crimes are reported and it has to do with a shocking cover-up. 2013. Uniform title: Tusenskönor.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the Stickman spread terror throughout Alabama and became Alvin…
detective Joe Fowler's obsession. After fifteen months and nine victims, Harry Stork was identified as the Stickman and Fowler shot him dead. The killings stopped. For a while. Now, more bodies are turning up, each staked through the chest with a stick-figure drawing in the killer's signature style. Detective Leah Teal--Joe Fowler's daughter and Alvin's sole detective--receives a letter before each victim is found, just like her late father did. The only people who knew about the letters were the cops on the taskforce back then--and the killer himself. Did Joe shoot the wrong man, or was one of the detectives he handpicked involved all along? 2016.