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Canadian media personality Pamela Wallin tells her story, from her birth in Wadena, Saskatchewan, to her role as host and…
producer of her television show. This book is her answer to the many questions asked about her life, as well as an examination of her own influences and aspirations. 1998.
Jemima Weiss grew up with a special feeling for her eccentric family. Now a worldly, yet troubled woman, Jem reflects…
on her formative years, as she struggles against becoming engulfed by the present. In seven episodes, she recounts her childhood in a family so extraordinary that it has left her adrift in the adult world. Some strong language. 2001.
This work contains the 1985-86 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures that Italo Calvino was to have delivered at Harvard. The day…
before he was to leave Italy for Cambridge, he died. His widow, Esther, prepared the lectures for publication. Calvino here deals with values of literature most dear to him: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity; consistency was to be the sixth. 1988. Uniform title: Essays.
Ada Prudhomme, a beautiful woman, has risen from poverty to marry wealthy Victor Prudhomme. Friends and admirers puzzle over the…
mysteries and sadness that haunt her life. Some strong language. 1985.
Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded…
their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.
An account of four trips the author took through Sinai reporting on its past and present. Offers a look into…
Bedouin habits, customs, culture, and a description of the beautiful and forbidding land. 1979.
Joss Aaronson is close to being expelled from the university where she studies time travel. Mavkel, a newly arrived telepathic…
student from another planet, then selects her as his study partner and roommate. When Joss discovers she is being stalked by an assassin, the two combine skills to search for reasons. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 1998.
On the exact site of the Sion Crossing skirmish between the Blue and the Grey soldiers of the American Civil…
War 100 years earlier, treachery awaits a new victim - Oliver St John. Latimer has been lured by the CIA from his Whitehall job of Kremlin-watching and spy-catching. David Audley comes to the rescue. 1984.
Lawyer Nicky Silver, a likable hypochondriac, stays home to write poems and watch over his small son while his wife…
pursues her career. When he discovers the mangled corpse of a shop owner, Nicky plans to find the murderer. c1988.
Three months earlier, Jenna Springer was supposed to meet her lifelong best friend, Celia. But when Jenna arrived late, she…
found that Celia had disappeared--and hasn't been seen again. Even though Jenna has obsessively surfed message boards devoted to missing persons cases, she is no closer to finding any answers--or easing her guilt. But when her son's new girlfriend--who suddenly arrived in town without a past--disappears, a stricken Jenna begins to unwind the tangled truth behind Celia's tragedy. And as long-buried secrets finally come to light, she discovers how completely lives can be shattered by a few simple lies. 2016.
Biography of the adventurous English explorer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. Describes the numerous expeditions to the New World…
in search of a golden kingdom and how court politics determined his fortunes. For junior and senior high readers. Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. 2000.
Fifteen elegant short stories, most originally published in the "New Yorker," all of them linked by a concern for the…
art of aging, living and dying, and approached with candour and respect. 1983.
Soulmates Sudha and Anju are cousins raised in the same Calcutta household by their widowed mothers. Beautiful Sudha is burdened…
by family secrets, while ambitious Anju wants an education. But both are forced by economics into arranged marriages. Eventually they reunite in America. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999.
Wren, the ghost of a girl who died at birth, and Lark, her depressed misfit living twin, help a boy…
who saves Lark from a suicide attempt and who is being threatened by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead serial killer. Followed by "Sisters of salt and iron". For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
The spirit of Wren Noble is lonely even though she talks with her living twin sister Lark. Then Wren meets…
Noah, the spirit of a young man who died a century ago. But Noah has a dark influence on Wren and Lark's distrust of him drives the sisters apart for the first time in their lives. As Halloween approaches, Lark must find a way to stop whatever deadly act Noah is planning, even if it means going through her sister to do so. Sequel to "Sisters of blood and spirit". For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend…
Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide. Winner of the French-language 2015 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2017. Uniform title: Six degrés de liberté.
Mrs. Budge, another of Sir Philip's paramours, is allowed to stay at the hotel, but she is lazy and eats…
all day. A guest named Lady Carruthers arrives, and to hide her age, dresses her 19-year old daughter as a school girl. The poor relations must deal with Mrs. Budge, find Arabella a husband and trounce her terrible mother. Sequel to "Mrs. Budley falls from grace" (DC12531), followed by Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue" (DC13445). 1994. (The Poor Relations ; 4)
Tragedy sent Addie Andrews fleeing from Chicago to the shelter of an unexpected inheritance--her beloved aunt's somewhat dilapidated home in…
Eunice, Arkansas, population very tiny. People say nothing happens in small towns, but Addie quickly learns better. She's got an elderly next-door neighbour who perplexingly dances outside in his underwear, a house needing more work than she has money, a best friend whose son uncannily predicts the weather, and a local drug dealer holding a massive grudge against her. Most surprising of all, she's got a dog. Not just any dog, but a bedraggled puppy she discovered abandoned, lost, and in desperate need of love. Kind of like Addie herself. 2015.
Adler's seminar consists of ideas that permeate our every waking moment which, through better understanding, will allow everyone to cope…
with the moral, social, and political issues that confront us today. 1981.
Detective Virgil Tibbs is in Singapore at the request of Miriam Motamboru, widow of a deceased African president. Miriam has…
been charged with murder, but she is sure Tibbs can prove her innocence. 1986.