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Cookbook emphasizing light and healthy cooking to prevent heart disease and stroke. Includes an explanation of Canada's Food Guide, menu…
planning, and over 200 recipes with complete nutritional analyses. Published with the cooperation of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. 1994.
Cleo, a slave girl working in the kitchen at the court of King Polydectes, is one of many turned to…
stone when Perseus returns with the head of Medusa. Cleo's brother Phaidon, their uncle Pelops, and two other slaves take Cleo's statue and flee on a trading ship. But the captain abandons the slaves on an island, taking Cleo's statue with him. The four begin a long search to find Cleo again. Grades 5-8. 1993, c1992.
Martin Fletcher was initially sent to Northern Ireland as a reporter for The Times, but while reporting on the tortuous…
peace negotiations his wife was meeting the ordinary people. Although essentially a tour of the country, the real story is told in endless digressions, with the author hunting rats on an island in the middle of the Strangford Lough and participating in the ancient game of road-bowling, in which players compete to hurl iron balls along two or three miles of country lane. 2001.
Tweed has only once lost a fight. And now he is to face his only failure again as he tracks…
down Dr Goslar, inventor of the supreme weapon. The search for Goslar - who could be a man or a woman - leads from London to Paris, where the Yellow Man surfaces, the most savage assassin Tweed has ever encountered. But Tweed must face many enemies; the French security services, a secret American unit from Washington and the rival British Special Branch. Sequel to "This United State". 1999. (Tweed and Co ; 17)
TV producer Laura Fisher chooses a stranger to father her child - a child she feels she must have to…
assert her independence. But on the day she gives birth she discovers shocking revelations about the stranger, leading to a murderous legacy that begins to play out in her life. 1995.
Although they are estranged, recently widowed Connie helps her childhood friend Meredith after Meredith's husband is arrested for running a…
Ponzi scheme. The two retreat to Connie's Nantucket home, where they cautiously rekindle their friendship and find surprising romances. Bestseller. 2011.
A thirteen year old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the…
field. As defense attorney Lindy Field delves into the haunted world of her client's torment, she finds a spiritual darkness that dredges up her own troubled past. 2005.
Penhally Bay is a world away from everything Eloise Hayden knows. But she's come to Cornwall's coast to find justice.…
Gorgeous Police Inspector Lachlan D'Ancey is mesmerised by this feisty, stunning Australian doctor. When Eloise uncovers something that is risking his daughters future he's torn between his duty to his career, his only child, and the woman he's falling in love with. Eloise soon realises that the single dad needs her help - together they may be able to find an answer. Only then can Lachlan ask Eloise the most important question of all. 2008.
All her life Vicky has been dominated by her powerful father Cornelius and his vast family. Her attempts to escape…
from his influence end in terrible disaster. Descriptions of sex and strong language. Sequel to “The Rich are Different”. 1980.
The dark waters around a remote Scottish castle hold a sinister secret. One man with a thirst for power will…
use it - whatever the cost. SilverFin is dangerous, SilverFin is the future and SilverFin must be destroyed. Young James Bond, on holiday from Eton and living with his aunt and uncle, finds himself embroiled in his first big adventure. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005.
In just ten weeks, Malaya was overrun and the 'fortress' of Singapore surrendered to a Japanese army that found itself…
outnumbered by the 100,000 plus British and Commonwealth prisoners. Written at a time when he could still interview many of the senior officers as well as ordinary soldiers caught up in this disaster, Noel Barber's account reveals how peacetime complacency prevailed in Singapore up to the very moment the Japanese onslaught began. 1988.
There are only eighteen black people living in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter,…
Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Against a background of rising unemployment and social change, Wexford is involved in a case which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his basic beliefs and prejudices. Sequel to "Kissing the gunner's daughter", followed by "Road rage". 1994.
Rachel Childs, a former journalist, now lives as a virtual shut-in after an on-air mental breakdown. In all other respects,…
however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths. Bestseller. 2017.
A former speech writer for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush offers "advice and anecdotes about the writing and…
giving of speeches." Exhorts both veteran and novice speakers to organize their message using logic, sincerity, humour, and short sentences, while keeping the speech under twenty minutes. c1998.
A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.…
To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers. Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he will confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia. Followed by "A darkness at Sethanon" (DC37493). 2009. (Riftwar Saga ; 2)
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in…
ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. Prequel to "Sunwing" (DC19512). Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Winner of the 1998 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 1997.
A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting…
bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry--newly minted head of her department's sex crime unit--and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Garry Disher's Peninsula-based crimes series. With meth-related crime on the rise, interdepartmental tensions mount, and Challis soon finds himself fighting to keep control of his case. Meanwhile, Destry is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. Sequel to "Whispering death". 2017.
The paparazzi can't get enough of infamous bad boy Giovanni Ferraro. But unknown to them--and the women he beds--he's just…
playing a role. Keeping the spotlight on himself keeps it off the family business. And if this lethal shadow rider can't hunt in the dark, he'll find his pleasure elsewhere... Sasha Provis grew up on a Wyoming ranch and thought she knew how to protect herself from predators. But in the nightclub where she works, she's fair game--until one of the owners steps in to protect her. Giovanni is gorgeous. He's dangerous. And his every touch takes her breath away. The devil at her heels may have finally met its match. Sequel to "Shadow reaper". 2018.
Seventh-grader Joseph Friedman is friendless and puny, with ADD to boot. He spends most of his time avoiding the class…
bully and hiding out in the Resource Room. But the Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school cross country team, and he meets Heather, a new student who's tough and athletic and refuses to be pushed around by anybody. For junior high readers. 2017.