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A fighter pilot, high above the English Channel in 1941, watches the sun rise. He descends 10,000 feet and then,…
to his amazement, finds the sun beginning to rise again. This haunting image is to recur during the life of Jean Serjearnt, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. Some descriptions of sex. 1986.
A succession of flights into the grotesque and phantasmagoric: a medicine huckster bedevilled by dreams as he touts a panacea…
called "Power drug", a hallucinatory horror show, in which a musician is haunted by premonitions of his girl friend's death. 1989.
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea…
sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees: a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The twenty-six day journey will see many lives end, others begin afresh. In a spellbinding story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the further the ship sails towards the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go. Strong language. 2004.
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it's safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that…
weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women, neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious. Stanley Duke is comfortably settled into early middle-age with a well-paid job and an apparently happy second marriage when Steve, his son by his first wife, begins to show the first signs of schizophrenia. As Steve's condition deteriorates, both father and son fall into the clutches of women, especially the female psychiatrist in charge of the boy's case, and the situation exposes the true nature of the women in Stanley's life. 1984.
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is…
caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race. 2014.
Vogel Pharmaceutical sends pharmacologist Marina Singh to Amazonian Brazil to locate elusive employee Dr. Annick Swenson, who was once Singh’s…
professor. While investigating the status of Swenson’s fertility-drug research, Singh also hopes to uncover the fate of colleague Anders Eckman, whom Swenson reported dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.
A Welsh family is caught up in the struggle between the supernatural powers of a mountain and the technological powers…
of a star lord who crashes into it. For junior high readers. c1978.
William Shatner, known to "Star Trek" fans as Captain James T. Kirk of the starship "Enterprise," tells the behind-the-scenes story…
of the original "Star Trek" television series that ran from 1966 to 1969. Gathering his memories with those of other cast members, writers, and technicians, Shatner shares anecdotes of writing, filming, and producing the fledgling series that became a cultural phenomenon. c1993.
A noted psychiatrist theorizes that we recreate the world inside our heads in accordance with highly individualized needs. He advocates…
a changeover from a behaviourist-oriented system of psychology to a reality-therapy system that recognizes and makes full use of internal motivation. 1981.
While Canadians habitually measure themselves and their country against the United States, they also continue to move across the border…
- about 600,000 Canadians are thought to live there. In talking to some of these people, Simpson provides a mix of anecdote, analysis and commentary that reveals surprising new perspectives on Canada's current and past relationship with America. He also looks sharply at the so-called "brain drain" and explodes some longstanding myths and stereotypes we hold about Americans. 2000.
Paris. Matt Cruse is looking forward to spending time with Kate de Vries over the summer, but first he is…
attacked and then Kate's parents summon her home. Things look up when the Canadian government makes an exciting offer to them both - Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air wants Kate to join the first expedition as an expert in aerial zoology. There's a place for Matt, too - if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world's first astralnauts onboard the incredible ship Starclimber. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "Skybreaker" (DC27968). Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2008.
Deb Perelman, award-winning blogger and New York Times best-selling author of 'The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook', understands that a happy discovery…
in the kitchen has the ability to completely change the course of your day. Whether we’re cooking for ourselves, for a date night in, for a Sunday supper with friends, or for family on a busy weeknight, we all want recipes that are unfussy to make with triumphant results. 2017.
Onnie Armstrong crowns herself king in her small backyard in Eleven Light City. But being a king isn't what a…
proper Southern girl should desire. Nor should she kiss other girls, go on adventures, or want to live some place other than the city she was born. To keep Onnie in line, Daddy watches her every move and will make his point with his belt, Mama employs preachy folk sayings and the occasional lick, while both insist there isn't time to be gay or to dream of faraway lands. School is the focus and college in Eleven Light City is the goal. But when Mama feels she's losing control and her only child could become a full-fledged lesbian, she whisks Onnie off for a summer visit with her uncle in San Francisco, but unknown to Mama it is the epicenter of gay life. Onnie not only gets a front row seat to gay culture but now she has a real place in mind when she imagines herself escaping from home. With sheer will, drive and a little planning, Onnie propels herself toward her future, but she'll have to wage a final battle with Mama and Daddy if she is to live the life she's always wanted. 2017.
As 1944 draws to a close, Bandy bobs through the ranks, dodging assassins, women, persecuting pilots, and a parcel of…
ladies' undergarments. He wonders about boozing pal Philby of the SIS, and Stalin, who can't really be out to get Bandy, just because he happens to know that a certain Soviet leader was once a Tsarist agent provocateur. From Normandy to Brussels to Yalta to Moscow, Bandy's career path is as labyrinthine as ever, strewn with bottles, battles, and brass-hat blood-pressure. Sequel to "Hitler versus me". Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2005. (The Bandy papers ; 9)
Believing that life is a gift of endless possibilities, eighty-something writer McCall urges others not to drop out of the…
dance of life just because they live alone in their later years. Using her own life as an example, McCall describes the adventures she has had since her divorce in the 1960s and the help she received from God. Included is a list of recreational resources. 1994.
Camilla MacPhee runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent crimes. Her uneasy association with the world…
of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious fashion columnist is crucified in a downtown hotel room. Camilla's best friend, Robin, was on her way to meet the victim and has become the main suspect, so Camilla sets out to vindicate her. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1999.
Mi'kmaq poet Rita Joe reflects on the tumultuous events of her life. Raised in foster homes and educated in an…
Indian residential school, she endured prejudice, sexism, and poverty. She began to write poetry, and soon discovered the voice through which she could reclaim her Aboriginal heritage. 1996.
Descendants of pioneer settlers, native Indians and more recent arrivals weave their way through these warm and witty short stories…
set in the fictional community of Spinner's Inlet in British Columbia's Gulf Islands. Nominated for the 1990 Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. c1989.