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A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only nearby unlocked room: the…
boys' washroom. There's Alice: an introverted writer, trapped in the role of big sister to her older autistic brother, Noah; Isabelle: the popular, high-achieving, student council president, whose greatest performance is her everyday life; Hogan: an ex-football player with a troubled past and a hopeless future; Xander: that socially awkward guy hiding behind the camera, whose candid pictures of school life, especially those of Isabelle, have brought him more trouble than answers. When Isabelle gets a text that says NOT A DRILL!! Shooter in the school!, suddenly, the bathroom doesn't seem so safe anymore. Especially when they learn that one of them knows more about the shooter than they realized. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Award, the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award and the 2017 John Spray Mystery Award. 2016.
Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.
Hallowell outlines a five-step process any manager can use to get the best out of his or her employees. By…
utilizing principles discovered through intense brain research, managers will be able to assign jobs to the right people, strengthen team bonds, cultivate imaginations, relieve and overcome stress, and stimulate loyalty and a desire to excel through rewards. This is an indispensable volume for leaders in any professional field. 2011.
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6…
agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans. Sequel to “Crocodile Tears”. Junior High. 2011.
When Todd travels to Virginia to bring his widowed mother to his Texas farm, illness alters his plan. Maggie makes…
a living by selling soaps and perfumes, using old family recipes. Marriage is the farthest thing from her mind - until Todd shows up on her porch, seeking help for his ailing mother. Maggie's heart skips a beat. And when the handsome Texan proposes to her, life suddenly begins to change for the dark-haired beauty. 2011.
In order to save his one true love and prevent the destruction of the earth, Dane the Defiant must defeat…
an old--and undead--enemy. Sequel to "Sword of doom". Grades 5-8. 2011.
This mythical tale - a sequel to "Great Sky Woman" - is set in Africa in 28,000 B.C. and follows…
a tribal leader who must find a new land for her people. 2010.
Marine veteran John "Preacher" Middleton intimidates just about everyone who walks into his bar. But when an abused young mother…
comes in, seeking protection from her ex-husband, Preacher promises to become her guardian - and maybe something more. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Virgin River", followed by "Whispering rock". 2009.
Teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child molester Jane Thompson makes parole after losing everything - her husband, her children, her…
career, and her reputation. But just as she begins trying to build a life out of the public eye, the bludgeoned body of the student she abused four years earlier is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation and Jane quickly becomes their prime suspect. Stonechild and Gundersund wade through buried secrets to find the truth, which will take them on a twisted journey to the heart of cruelty. Sequel to "Tumbled graves". 2017.
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how…
learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman’s exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa. After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen’s representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children. 2016.
A memoir written by an ophthalmologist best known for creating ORBIS, the not-for-profit flying eye hospital staffed by volunteer eye…
surgeons, and designed for hands-on teaching of eye care that is applicable to the needs of the host country. Includes stories about everyone from the Shah of Iran and Madame Chiang Kai-chek to Adlai Stevenson and the author’s boss at Baylor, heart doctor Michael E. DeBakey. Paton asserts that no career rewards exceed the thrill of personally restoring sight through surgery. 2011.
Dr. Lily Whitney has been recruited by her father to help conduct a government experiment studying the psychic ability of…
an elite group of soldiers. Blessed with the gift herself, Lily is fascinated by the study, and intensely drawn to one of its difficult subjects - the brooding Captain Ryland Miller. When the experiment goes awry, and her father is murdered, Lily will need Ryland to help catch the killer. But Ryland is weary about trusting a scientist, even if his connection to Lily is too strong to resist. 2010.
Two lonely hearts long for a second chance at love. Within a few short months, Vanessa buried her husband and…
birthed his son. When serendipity brings a man into her life again, her heart flutters anew. But just as he plans to reveal his love, another woman stakes her claim on him - a claim his sense of honour can't easily shake off. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Virgin River Christmas", followed by "Temptation Ridge". 2009.
A busy single mom runs a Florida funeral home. But her mortuary work becomes even more poignant when her assistant…
discloses his terminal illness. Sequel to “She Always Wore Red”. 2009.
Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve…
their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for egg donors. Bestseller. 2001.
When a local boy is killed by wolves, Grace's small town becomes a place of fear and suspicion. But Grace…
can't help being fascinated by the pack, and by one yellow-eye wolf in particular. There's something about him - something almost human. Then she meets a yellow-eye boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. Junior and Senior High. 2009.
This text presents two essays: "Securing society: creating Canadian social policy;" and, "The new tools: implications for the future of…
work." The essays discuss the decline of work and its meaning, while considering the new realities of work. The job search is obstructed by "technological progress", a situation which results in loss of tax revenue, fewer people in standard employment, and sociological and moral consequences. The proposed solutions for these problems include suggestions ranging from an equitable distribution of wealth to a national strategy for child care. c1994.
Interweaves an account of the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America that carried a cargo of gold bullion and…
minted coins with the story of the shipwreck's discovery in 1988 by Tommy Thompson. Describes Thompson's feat of developing technology to locate and retrieve artifacts from a wooden-hulled ship in eight thousand feet of water. Winner of the 2000 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.
Features eight stray dogs that were adopted from shelters and went on to become service animals, actors, and heroes. "Zorro,…
the champion that nobody wanted" relates how a large, lively canine became a star on a flyball team. Grades 3-6. 1999.