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The author writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service,…
Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery. Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University. 1995.
Brainy sixth-grader George and sassy eighth-grader Kate have to go to a strange new school, in a haunted library, where…
they take standardized tests all day alongside green-tinged "Mushroom Children". They hate the school, the tests, and dealing with the weird adults who run it. When a series of demonic possessions and grisly deaths occur, Kate and George get on the trail of a creepy paranormal mystery spanning generations. Edgar Award finalist 2005. Grades 5-8. 2004.
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug…
who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Novels.
In a follow-up to "Act like a Lady, Think like a Man", comedian and talk-show host Harvey continues his advice…
to women on understanding and dealing with men of all ages. Topics covered include money, sex, chores, and dating. Bestseller. 2010.
Most people know Copeland as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock history. But…
they may not know as much about his childhood in the Middle East as the son of a CIA agent, or be aware of his filmmaking adventures with the Pygmies in the deepest reaches of the Congo, and his passion for polo. Moves from Copeland's remarkable childhood to the formation of The Police, their rise to stardom, and to the settled-down life that followed. Some strong language. 2009.
Christopher Sears, thirteen, is headed from England to Jamestown, Virginia, when the boat runs ashore on the coast of New…
England. He is then taken in by the Brewsters of Plimoth Plantation. Christopher keeps a daily journal that describes farming, sickness, worship, and entertainment. For grades 3-6. c1994.
When his wife is murdered, Tim Blackburn suspects that his daughter, Nicole, may have been involved. Long out of touch…
and embittered after an IRA bomb killed her twin brother, Nicole joined Genesis, a fanatic cult group. Tim's search for her community in Chile brings him face-to-face with danger and haunting truths. 1991.
Jim Jarvis is a runaway. When his mother dies, Jim is all alone in the workhouse and is desperate to…
escape. But London in the 1860s is a dangerous and lonely place for a small boy and life is a constant battle for survival. Just when Jim finds some friends, he is snatched away and made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick, constantly guarded by his vicious dog, Snipe. Will Jim ever be free? Jim's gripping adventure is based on the true story of the orphan whose plight inspired Doctor Barnardo to set up his famous children's refuge. Grades 3-6. 2009, c1993.
While on a school trip Gordon, Mike and Chuckie are stranded on a remote island marine station. The marine biologists…
who run the station have to leave suddenly and then the power goes out. When a pod of pilot whales becomes stranded on the beach the boys must think fast and act quickly to save them. Grades 5-8. 1998.
Punished for fleeing her duties as a member of Strandia's privileged class, Sand is rescued by her dolphin friend M'ridan…
and learns of a disaster threatening her homeland. For junior high readers. 1992, c1991.
When a terrorist bomb explodes, housewife Annie is trapped with Steve, a handsome advertising executive. They talk about their lives,…
marriages and family life. After they are rescued, they remain emotionally entwined. Some descriptions of sex. 1987.
In August 1944 Captain Berger decided to risk sailing the Deutschland to Kiel, 5000 miles across oceans dominated by the…
Allied navies. This is the epic account of his act of reckless courage. 1976.
When medical students accidentally take skin from the wrong donor, an elderly professor becomes the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents…
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track the skin that was grafted onto the professor--a trail that leads from the morgue to the jungles of Thailand. 2015.
A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.…
Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend... who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right? 2018.
When dragons rise from the earth, firefighters are humanity's last line of defence, in this wild near-future fantasy. Firefighter Cole…
Brannigan is on the verge of retirement after 30 years on the job, and a decade fighting dragons. But during his final fire call, he discovers he's immune to dragon smoke. It's such a rare power that he's immediately conscripted into the elite dragon-fighting force known as the Smoke Eaters. Retirement cancelled, Brannigan is re-assigned as a lowly rookie, chafing under his superiors. So when he discovers a plot to take over the city's government, he takes matters into his own hands. With hundreds of innocent civilians in the crosshairs, it's up to Brannigan and his fellow Smoke Eaters to repel the dragon menace. 2018.
Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of…
a handsome aristocrat. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune--except for his onetime countess, Viola. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness, until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. Marcel Lamarr has been a notorious womanizer since the death of his wife nearly twenty years earlier. Viola caught his eye when she herself was a young mother, but she evaded his seduction at the time. A prize that eluded him before, she is all the more irresistible to him now although he is surprised to discover that she is as eager now for the excitement he offers as he is himself. When the two defy convention and run away together, they discover that the ties of respectability are not so easily severed, and pleasure can ensnare you when you least expect it. Sequel to "Someone to wed", followed by "Someone to trust". 2018.
When Alexander Westcott becomes the new Earl of Riverdale, he inherits a title he never wanted and a failing country…
estate he can't afford. But he fully intends to do everything in his power to undo years of neglect and give the people who depend on him a better life. A recluse for more than twenty years, Wren Heyden wants one thing out of life: marriage. With her vast fortune, she sets her sights on buying a husband. But when she makes the desperate and oh-so-dashing earl a startlingly unexpected proposal, Alex will only agree to a proper courtship, hoping for at least friendship and respect to develop between them. He is totally unprepared for the desire that overwhelms him when Wren finally lifts the veils that hide the secrets of her past. 2017.
Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern…
Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. There is also a dog-eared notebook filled with circuit diagrams, beautiful and intricate drawings of body parts, and pages of code. When Vin decides to climb into one of the caskets to see what happens, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that asks fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life. 2018.
These dogs aren't the only ones in need of rescue: For devoted no-kill shelter worker Kelsey Sutton, rehabbing a group…
of rescue dogs is a welcome challenge. Working with a sexy ex-military dog handler who needs some TLC himself? That's a different story. Kurt Crawford keeps his heart locked away from everyone. Well, everyone except the dogs who need his help...and always have his back. But as Kurt gets to know the compassionate, beautiful woman he's been assigned to work with, he can't help but feel a little puppy love... 2018.