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A comprehensive study of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s.…
Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.
A serial killer terrorizing New Orleans murders Abby Chastain's radio shock jock ex-husband, Luke. Police detective Reuben Montoya links the…
deaths to an abandoned psychiatric facility where Abby's mother plunged to her death from a window twenty years ago. Violence, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2006.
Writing with the full approval of the Conan Doyle estate, the author continues the adventures of the legendary detective, Sherlock…
Holmes. In this mystery, a jewel passed down from Scottish royalty goes missing from the hair clip of its owner on her wedding day. Since it formed part of her marriage "estate" it must be found, and Holmes is called on the case. 1989.
The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each…
with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles. Sequel to "Lord of the silver bow", followed by "Fall of kings". 2007, c2006.
A rite-of-passage tale in which two young sisters encounter crazed drifters in a remote West Virginia girls' camp in 1963.…
The girls are transformed by their contacts with Parson, a Bible-obsessed avenger; Buddy, child of the forest; and the vicious Carmody. Strong language and violence. 1994.
Purports to be a true account by Dr. Watson of events falsified by “an Irishman named Bram Stoker.” He claims…
that it was Holmes who rid England of Count Dracula in 1890. 1978.
Pattie called the new planet Shine. Now that the Earth was gone, it had to be their home, and all…
they had to help them survive was a few tools and some seeds. That meant a lot of hard work and only Pattie and the other children had time to make discoveries. Some were useful, like candy trees. Some were frightening, like the planet's other inhabitants. But the most frightening thing of all was something they had brought with them from earth - hunger. Grades 5-8. 1988.
Maggie Dillon has always worried about what might happen to her family’s cozy but fragile life in Duchess Creek, BC.…
When her father is killed in a logging accident, Maggie thinks her worst fear has come true, but then her mother abruptly drops Maggie and her sister off with a gloomy couple, and doesn’t return. When trouble finds the girls for the third time, Maggie decides to search out her mother and repair her fractured family. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. c2011.
Shirley Bassey has sold more records than any other British female singer, but the personal tragedies that have fuelled the…
emotionalism of her songs have not been revealed. This biography covers her poverty-stricken childhood, her pregnancy at 16, her marriages and affairs, and her alcoholism. 1999.
Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany…
in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. This biography offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. 2005, c1994.
Albert Schmidt, proud traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school, was almost down for the count. His beloved wife…
was dead, he had stumbled into early retirement, and relations with his cherished and perfectly bred daughter couldn't have been worse. The only glimmer of salvation was his unlikely love affair with Carrie, a Puerto Rican waitress younger than his daughter. Sequel to "About Schmidt". Followed by "Schmidt Steps Back". Includes strong language and sex. 2001.
As Clara Carter's social debut looms in 1890s New York City, the spotlight turns her into a society-page darling. Yet…
her new status rings hollow. When a man appears who seems to love her for who she is, Clara must choose the kind of life she really wants. But after a gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara's future and that of her own family depend on how shrewdly she plays the game. 2010.
When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world…
travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children. 2010.
Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session in Shakespeare, Arkansas, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively…
enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. Who is the message for? And who's next to fall victim to a killer's head games? Sequel to "Shakespeare's trollop". 2011.
Trying to keep a low profile as a cleaning lady, Lily Bard gets sucked into a murder investigation when one…
of her clients is killed in an apparent tryst gone bad. Sequel to "Shakespeare's Christmas", followed by "Shakespeare's counselor". 2009.
When karate-loving cleaning lady Lily Bard fled a violent past and planted herself in Shakespeare, Arkansas, she had no intention…
of ever going back. But now that her sister is getting married, Lily heads home - only to find herself pulled into a murder investigation. Sequel to "Shakespeare's champion", followed by "Shakespeare's trollop". 2009.
Karate-kicking house cleaner Lily Bard stumbles across a dead bodybuilder. And though a hunky stranger soon tickles her fancy, she…
begins to suspect him of murder. Sequel to "Shakespeare's landlord", followed by "Shakespeare's Christmas". 2009.