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Award winning fiction, General fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Mississippi, August 2005. Young black teenager Esch Batiste - pregnant, hungry, and rejected - helps her widowed father and three…
brothers prepare for the approaching hurricane. When the storm arrives, the family seeks refuge in the attic. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. National Book Award. 2011.
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General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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A professor is dead and a suspect is in custody, but nothing is what it seems - the dead man…
is an atheist professor, the accused an Islamic foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew, and the detective a born again Christian. P.I. Carl Van Wagener is soon on the trail of a missing manuscript while his pastor insists he drop the case, but he can't stop searching for the killer or the truth - no matter what the cost. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2008.
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History, United States history, Law and crime, Politics and government, Christianity
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A history of the sanctuary movement to aid political refugees from Central American wars. Chronicles its origin in the early…
1980s through the 1986 court trial that convicted many of its leaders of smuggling and harbouring illegal aliens. c1988.
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Adventure stories, Animal stories, Canadian fiction, Family stories
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Sam, a nine-year-old boy, is devastated when his mother drops him off for two weeks on his grandfather's ranch. Grandpa…
has a lot of rules, and Sam isn't happy about having to stay with him, but it isn't all bad - he learns to ride a horse and also discovers some surprising things about his father, who died when Sam was a baby. When Sam is forced to overcome his fear of riding in order to help rescue Grandpa, Sam grows to appreciate both his grandpa and life on the ranch. Grades 2-4. 2009.
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General fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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Since Isabel Morgan is an investigative journalist who lives life on the edge, many of her friends are neither surprised…
nor alarmed when she goes missing. But one friend does not believe this is one of Isabel's wild schemes. Leo Holland, her best friend, travels to London to attempt to discover what has happened to Isabel, and what secrets her friend's life holds. 2000.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Police and military
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During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.
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Family stories, Friendship stories, General fiction
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Gavin's older brother and father are bullies and his mother has not been the same since she hit a pig…
on the highway. Gavin spends most of his time at his best friend's house, pretending to be normal, while falling for his friend's older sister, Jasey. When Jasey's seemingly perfect family begins to come apart and Jasey is unable to deal with the threat of a potential illness, Gavin struggles to save her. For Junior High readers. 2001.
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Biography, Canadian non-fiction
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A collection of stories about twelve amazing Saskatchewan natives. Includes "Two-Gun" Cohen, who became an advisor to Sun Yat-sen; Kathleen…
Rice, daring lady prospector; and Richard St. Barbe Baker, internationally famous "Man of the Trees". Some descriptions of sex. 2004.
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Canadian fiction, Fantasy, General fiction
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When a local grocer, Anastasia Morningstar, zaps a shoplifter into a frog, Sarah and Ben decide to make a science…
project out of her. Their teacher doesn't approve, but soon Sarah and Ben are involved in a rescue operation for Anastasia's magical butterfly. In the end, it takes both imagination and a little scientific know-how to save the enchanted butterfly - and Anastasia's very soul - from extinction. Grades 3-6. 2005. Uniform title: Anastasia Morningstar and the crystal butterfly
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Adventure stories, Sea stories, Canadian fiction, Friendship stories, General fiction
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Seventeen-year-old Don Morgan has bought himself a 32-foot west coast salmon troller. Now he is free to fish the entire…
length of the BC coast. With his friend Tubby Miller, he sets off on his adventure, but things don't unfold quite as he had hoped. Don soon realizes that he has a lot to learn, not just about commercial fishing, but about growing up. For senior high readers. 1948. c2000.
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War
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When Serbian forces began bombing Sarajevo in the spring of 1992, Elma Softic was forced out of the comfort of…
a cosmopolitan lifestyle, and plunged into war. To escape the siege around her, and to try to understand what was happening, she kept a diary and began writing open letters to friends in Zagreb. These letters reached a growing public in Croatia and eventually Europe. This book is a collection of Elma's diaries and letters, from April 1992 to June 1995. 1995.
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Romance, Contemporary romance
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Two celebrity chefs compete in a culinary competition, but resisting each other will prove to be the greater challenge. As…
Mia and Camden face off, neither realizes how high the stakes are as their reputations are put on the line and their hearts are put to the test. Sequel to "No reservations". 2018.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Romance
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Having been pronounced infertile at only eighteen, Kennedy redirected her life the best way she could, and is one of…
the most well-loved first grade teachers at Rock Falls Elementary School. It doesn't matter that her college boyfriend left her because he wanted children of his own. She has twenty-two of the most gorgeous six-year-olds, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Jackson Steele deals only in extremes. He falls victim to manic episodes lasting for days, sometimes weeks at a time, sending him reeling from volatile highs to devastating lows. It's a living hell just being inside his own mind, and that hell has taken everything he's ever loved away from him. But what if, this time, it gives him something? An untimely gift from God and a brunette with legs eight miles long will bring him unforeseen joy--and his most challenging test yet. Sequel to "Keeping King". 2016.
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Multi-cultural fiction
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On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before…
the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh--Western expat--husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. 2016.
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Biography, LGBTQ+ biography, Women biography
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Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where…
they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed "residential treatment program," a virtual gulag where thousands of American teenagers have been sent by fundamentalist parents. Forbidden from attending school, Alex was beaten and verbally abused, and forced to stand facing a wall for up to eighteen hours a day wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks that literally broke her back. "God's plan does not apply to gay people," her captors told her, using faith as a cudgel to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex would eventually escape and make legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law's protection as an openly gay teenager. 2016.
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Biography, Business biography
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Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single…
dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. 2017.
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War
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War:…
one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable than Lt. Colonel Gene Hambleton. His memory is filled with highly classified information, and he knows secrets about cutting-edge missile technology that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want. When Hambleton is shot down behind enemy lines in the midst of North Vietnam's Easter Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man hiding amongst 30,000 enemy troops and tanks. Airborne rescue missions fail, killing eleven Americans. Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot. Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach a starving Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is barely alive, starved, and hallucinating after eleven days on the run. In this deeply-researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan Talty describes the extraordinary mission that led Hambleton to safety. Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers, Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Special Forces. 2018.
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Fantasy
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After traveling to the seaside kingdom of Lilah's betrothed prince, Lulath, Celie and her companions are busy training griffins, enjoying…
wedding festivities, and finishing construction of a grand ship built from parts of the Castle. But on their maiden voyage, the Ship steers them far off course into uncharted waters. Sequel to "Fridays with the wizards". Grades 3-6. 2017.
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Multi-cultural fiction
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A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service…
of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple--a documentary filmmaker and a blogger--engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters and the reader through dazzling and digressive intellectual byways to an Internet hack that confronts us with a catalogue of historical violence, devastation, and atrocity throughout the centuries. 2017. Uniform title: Teorías salvajes.
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Multi-cultural fiction
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On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She…
sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can't escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990, Alia and her family once again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia's children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. 2017.