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Young Allan Marley lives alone in the Beaver Flowage wilderness. One snowy November twilight, Allan courageously rescues a huge, black…
hunting dog that has fallen through the ice. The boy and dog are both strong and independent, and a bond grows between them. Grades 5-8. 1959.
Serving aboard the magnificent sky-ship Stormchaser, Twig is still trying to prove himself to his pirate father Cloud Wolf -…
with mixed results. He learns that his father was once known as Quintinius Verginix, entrusted by the Professors of Light and Darkness to secure "stormphrax" (the sacred, super-heavy substance that keeps the floating city of Sanctaphrax from sailing skyward). Grades 5-8. 2000, c1999. (The Edge chronicles ; 2)
Growing up in England, Eileen entered her teenage years in the 1920s, an exciting decade which tempted her with short…
skirts, silk stockings, and the Charleston. But her path to maturity was uncertain, as she discovered how world events can influence lives -- even hers. Sequel to "On Sundays we wore white" (DC40182). 1979.
A beautiful, headstrong young woman in a Scottish mining town in 1875 finds herself torn between loyalty to her family…
and her class, and her forbidden love for the married owner of the mines. 1975.
Two men, a tennis star and a psychopath, meet by chance on a train and 'swap' murders. 'Some people are…
better off dead - like your wife and my father, for instance' as Bruno, the rich psychopath puts it, before proceeding to carry out his part of the bargain. A chance meeting and a rash conversation can lead to all sorts of trouble... 1966.
Every year Strega Nona carefully plants her seeds and uses her magic touch to grow her garden. Her helper Big…
Anthony figures he should be able to grow a garden too. But Big Anthony is not careful. Soon he has a jungle on his hands - Mamma mia! What will they do with all these vegetables? Grades K-3. 2009.
Known for his opinions - and unabashed expression of them - Don Cherry has been causing debate for decades. Topics…
on "Coach's Corner" sometimes veer away from sports and on to other matters that are near and dear to Cherry's heart: the war in Afghanistan and politics, among others. Now Don shares his thoughts on a broader range of issues than he ever has before. He shares some of his personal experiences on and off the ice, and offers the lessons he's learned along the way. Bestseller. 2014.
A collection of original stories by twelve of Canada's most celebrated and best loved authors, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier,…
Timothy Findley, Antonine Maillet, Alberto Manguel and Michael Turner. When presented with the question - What are the great events in Canadian history? - they responded by travelling into the past to discover the moments that shaped our nation. 2001.
The excavation showed that the fossilised plesioseur had been holding a placard which read, 'End nuclear testing now'. That was…
nothing unusual. But then came a discovery of something that did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new. Originally published in 1981. 1994.
A collection of Rick Mercer's rants, taken from the popular television show "This hour has 22 minutes," against Canadian politics…
and political figures. 1998. Uniform title: This hour has 22 minutes (Television program)
Eric Hansen bought the best map of Borneo he could find. Then, with the minimum of baggage, he headed for…
the places marked "unknown". He spent seven months and travelled 2,400 miles in one of the least visited spots on earth. This resulting book is both an adventure story and a look at a vanishing way of life. 1990.
1921. A band of young Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, have set out to realize a utopian dream--the founding…
of a kibbutz--on a patch of land that will later become Israel. Seeing inside the minds of three key characters depicts how idealism quickly tumbles into pragmatism, and how the utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. This is also the story of the land itself (present-day Israel and Palestine), revealing with sympathy and terrible irony how the enthusiastic newcomers chose to ignore the subtle but undeniable fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people that the pioneers did not want to see. These characters who, isolated in the enclosure of their hard-won utopian dream, are haunted by ghosts, compromised by unbearable secrets, and finally, despite flashes of love and hope, worn down by hardship, human frailty, the difficulties of "equality" and the pull of violent confrontation. 2017.
Pen Ohmsford surrenders to the druids to help his captive friends and to reach Paranor, where he can enter the…
Forbidding and rescue his aunt, the rightful high druid. When the druids imprison Pen, elven girl Khyber Elessedil undertakes to save him. Sequel to "Tanequil". Some violence. 2005.
The isolated cottage on the Hebridean island of Moila seemed to writer Rose Fenemore the ideal place, a perfect retreat…
where she could finish her book. But it is not easy to escape the world and its turmoils and Rose has to cope with two very different men who come in from the sea on a night of summer storms. 1991.
When he receives a disturbing call from his brother Roy, Inspector Banks heads off to London to search him out.…
Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet road. A young woman has been found dead in her car - with Banks' name and address written on a slip of paper in the back pocket of her jeans. 2005.
Desperate poachers are stalking the dwindling populations of Zimbabwe's great game parks. Ancient rivalries have ignited modern political ambitions and…
nothing is certain for those of the old Africa. But for Richard Dunn the stakes are even higher. Into his world comes the beautiful and compelling Steve Hayes, a woman struggling to guard her own dreadful secret. Richard has no choice: face the consequences of the past and fight for the future. Some descriptions of violence. 1996.
Bookstore owner Claire Malloy hosts a reception celebrating the release of her friend Mildred Twiller's trashy new romance novel. During…
the party, excerpts reveal Mildred has libeled many of the attendees. Soon after, Mildred is found strangled to death, and Claire herself joins the suspect list. Some strong language. 1986.
Biography of Beryl Markham who made the first solo flight west across the Atlantic Ocean. She was raised in Kenya…
alongside the son of Nandi hunters. Strikingly beautiful and uninterested in motherhood, she could take apart an airplane or fly across the Sahara with a stuttering engine. 1987.