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Fifteen-year-old Joshua has travelled from Toronto to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in order to help with a charity mission. In confronting the…
poverty and injustice that surrounds him, Joshua struggles to find meaning in the cruelty of the world. And then devastation hits - and Joshua finds himself at the very centre of a catastrophic earthquake. Will he be able to save himself? And, if he does, how will he find the faith and hope he needs to go on? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2010.
The unique private story of C.S. Lewis's love for Joy Davidman, in whom he truly found love and was drawn…
out of his shell. But his happiness was short-lived as she died months after they were married. Brian Sibley looks at Lewis's childhood, his literary legacy and shows how, despite grievous doubts, Lewis's Christian faith shone through. 1985.
A glossary including every word which presents the reader with difficulty. A scene-setting caption puts the quotation in its dramatic…
context and helps to clarify the meaning. The text also collates the way characters are named, the names of people and places they talk about, and the foreign languages that some of them use. Each play has a conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae. 2002.
After her mother's death, 13-year-old Annie Orr takes charge of the family. Things aren't easy, especially when she begins to…
suspect her elder brother, Baxter, of being a thief. Desperate to hold the family together, Annie goes out to Holy Island to discover the truth. For junior high readers. 1995.
Housewife Angela Hathall is found murdered in her home with no evidence of a break-in. Chief Inspector Wexford interviews beautiful…
Nancy Lake, the last person to see Angela alive. But what begins as a routine investigation becomes an obsession that threatens to destroy Wexford's career and marriage. Sequel to "Some lie and some die", followed by "A sleeping life". 1975. (Inspector Wexford mystery)
Documents the true story of a Soviet naval captain who defected to the United States, served as a double agent…
for the C.I.A., and disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on assignment in Vienna. The author believes that Shadrin may have been sacrificed as a pawn in a game for higher stakes. 1981.
Twenty-six authors, including Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and Margaret Atwood, honour the work and influence of Ray Bradbury through their…
own stories. In David Eggers's "Who Knocks?" a girl engages with the unknown on a lake in rural Minnesota. Includes note of appreciation by Bradbury. 2012. Introduction / A second homecoming / The man who forgot Ray Bradbury / Headlife / Heavy / The girl in the funeral parlor / The companions / The exchange / Cat on a bad couch / By the silver water of Lake Champlain / Little America / The phone call / Young pilgrims / Children of the bedtime machine / The page / Light / Conjure / Max / Two of a kind / Fat man and little boy / The tattoo / Backward in Seville / Earth (a gift shop) / Hayleigh's dad / Who knocks? / Reservation / Two houses / Weariness /
The author documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American…
who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunker-like room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. 2007.
When 12-year-old Joe goes shark hunting with his Uncle Harry and cousin Meg, their boat catches fire. Meg, Joe and…
Uncle Harry, who is badly injured, land on Wayward Island with no way of getting help. Grades 5-8. c1988.
Theo, a passionate young knight, can't wait to embark on the Holy Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. Along with his friend…
Amalric, a fellow knight, and Emma, a servant girl, he is ready to fight. But for all their conviction, none of these young people is prepared for the realities of war - for its brutality, the ways it will divide them, and the life and death choices it offers. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "There will be wolves" (DC14007), followed by "Lionheart's scribe" (DC19721). 1996. (The Crusades ; 2)
Law professor Roach provides a look at the anti-terrorist measures taken in Canada post 9/11, among them Bill C-36 (the…
Anti-Terrorism Act), changes to Canadian immigration policy, and the war in Afghanistan. He also comments on how Canada's anti-terrorism policies should evolve in the future, from airplane security to intelligence, while warning how the new laws created to deal with terrorism could possibly subject Canadians to surveillance, racial profiling, and curtailed free speech. 2003.
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.
Abramm's coronation is still underway, and rival leaders are plotting their return to power. Will Abramm hold onto victory, or…
will his enemies succeed in destroying his beloved realm? Sequel to "Shadow Within". Followed by "Return of the Guardian-King". 2005.
After Diana and Matthew timewalk to London, 1590, they find that the past may not provide a safe haven after…
all. Reclaiming his identity as poet and spy Matthew falls back in step with a group of radicals known as the School of Night who share dangerous ideas about God, science, and man. Sequel to "A discovery of witches"; followed by "The book of life". 2012.
October 1891: A young girl, Leonie Vernier, and her brother, Anatole, are invited to leave the gas-lit streets of Paris…
and travel south to a mysterious country house - La Domaine de la Cade - near Carcassonne. There, in the ancient, dark woods, Leonie comes across a ruined sepulchre and is drawn into a century's old mystery of murder, ghosts and a strange set of tarot cards that seem to hold enormous power over life and death. October 2007: Meredith Martin decides to take a break from her research trip in Paris - where she is studying Claude Debussy - and head down south to a beautiful hotel in the woods. She becomes fascinated by the history of the place and particularly by the tragic events of one Halloween night more than a century before that shocked the small community. Thus her fate becomes entwined with that of Leonie. But it is only when she too stumbles over a secluded glade in the forest that she realises that the secrets it contains are far from dead and buried. 2008.
Two unusual incidents in one day seem unconnected, until a third body - that of a prospective member of the…
Scottish Parliament - is found at Queensbury House. Inspector Rebus investigates, and uncovers old secrets that suggest Scotland's second attempt at devolution will be just as dirty. 2000. (Inspector Rebus ; 11)
Everyone expects Manolo to become a great bullfighter like his father, but he wants to follow his own heart and…
become a doctor. As he prepares to fight his first bull, Manolo realizes that he is afraid. Grades 5-8. 1965 Newbery Award winner. 1964.