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Presents a beginning language learning program designed to teach the listener Russian in progressive steps. 2011, c2001.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of…
knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute-unless she does as he says. This chilling audiobook traces the next two harrowing years as Frank mentally and physically assaults Sally while the two of them travel westward from Camden to San Jose, forever altering not only her life, but the lives of her family, friends, and those she meets along the way. 2018.
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Biography, Politics and government biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian politics and government
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Biography of A.M. Nicolson who, along with T.C. Douglas and Stanley Knowles, established the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor,…
the New Democratic Party. As a young minister, Nicolson realized that the only way to alleviate the social injustices he witnessed was through political action. c1988.
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Animals and wildlife
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For 15 years, the author studied the structure of fox society in Britain and Israel by observing red foxes in…
rural and urban settings. MacDonald includes facts and hypotheses about fox behaviour from birth to death, in groups and as individuals. 1987.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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Short stories that take place throughout Canada - northern Ontario, the Prairies, the West Coast, Stratford - and feature women…
and men drifting in and out of each other's orbits, pulled by forces they don't understand. In "Runaway," a woman considers leaving her husband with the help of a neighbour, but the husband has other plans. In "Trespasses," a small town's women dream of escaping their lives only to find themselves in lives they never imagined. Some strong language. Booklist's Best of 2004. Winner of the 2004 Giller Prize. 2004.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
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When the head of the KGB attempts a purge of officers who support the newly elected General Secretary, the coup…
is only partially successful and a bloody civil war ensues. Will nuclear war result? Some strong language. c1984.
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Law and crime biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, True crime
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Marc and Debra seemed to have it all - a lovely home in Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage,…
and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. But in April 2006, their bloodied dead bodies, along with Jacob's, were discovered. Investigators worried for JR's safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online, and a relationship with a twenty-three-year-old high school dropout. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence and explicit strong language. 2009.
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Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, Politics and government, Canadian politics and government, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Eddie Malloy is back on track and the only cloud on the horizon is fellow jockey Bill Keating who's blackouts…
are making him a danger on the course. When he is found dead, his ex-wife does not agree with the verdict of suicide and lures Eddie into a dangerous investigation, following a trail of to the heart of a conspiracy. 1994.
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European history, War
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In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into…
Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Napoleon's empire lay in ruins. Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe. 2009.
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Humourous fiction, School stories
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Six-year-old Russell has all sorts of concerns. He worries about his Hallowe'en costume; he thinks his parents should be nicer…
to him; and he can't understand why his science project, a potato plant, will not sprout. Sequel to "Russell rides again". Grades K-3. c1987.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Adelaide Shadd was born in southwestern Ontario in the first decade of the 20th century in an all-black town settled…
by fugitive slaves. Tragedy strikes more than once but she endures. Now an old woman, she lives a quiet existence in a trailer park not far from her birthplace. When five-year-old Sharla Cody is abandoned on her doorstep, she is forced to relive the unbearable sorrows of her past. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.
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History, European history
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Traces the history of Russia as a nation and an empire up to the year 1917. Asserts that the economic…
and political processes of state building impeded the development of a sense of national identity and cohesiveness among the Russian people. 1997.
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Politics and government
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The author argues that Gorbachev is breaking with Stalinist and Leninist legacy by opening the Soviet Union to western ideas…
and technology. His reforms are far-reaching and changes in global power relationships are imminent. 1988.
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Adventure stories
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Each of four orphans thought she had found a home--until a tragic event in each family landed the girls at…
Lakewood House. The girls, bonded as sisters, feel like a family despite living at the foster home. Then they discover a secret and "borrow" the foster family's car to escape. Sequel to "Raven". Some strong language. Bestseller 1998. (Orphans ; 5)
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Animal stories
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Orphaned by fire, savaged by beast and man, Rusty, the red deer calf, knew little of security. Then one day…
he was rescued by the gamekeeper and given to her daughter Jeannie to aid her recovery from a car crash in which her fiancé was killed. Evoking the harsh but rewarding life of the Highlands, this story arouses equal interest in both human and animal characters. 1982.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Adventurers and explorers
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An account of the only expedition to negotiate the entire length of the Amazon River. During this six-month adventure which…
began in August, 1985, the ten men and one woman encountered Indians who had never before seen strangers, camped near a cocaine factory, and were beset by cold, heat and hunger. Bestseller 1989. 1989.
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Forensic fiction, Women sleuthsBiography, Religious biography
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Written by a popular crime novelist -- a family friend -- this account of the wife of evangelist Billy Graham…
begins with Ruth Bell's early life in China as a child of missionaries. Because she wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps, it took persuasion on Graham's part to convince her to marry him and become his helpmate. 1997.
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Humour
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Best known as a writer and comic for television's Saturday Night Live, Franken takes a humorous look at the political…
right, beginning with talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and his audience of "fact-challenged dittoheads." Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, and others are also targeted in what Franken calls "200-plus pages of ... mean-spirited (yet accurate) bile." Strong language. 1996.
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Ghost and horror stories, Mysteries and crime stories
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After ad-man Harry Buckingham is questioned about the death of his estranged father, he pursues his own investigation into the…
mysterious messages received by the late Mr. Buckingham. A fast-paced horror story set in modern-day London. 1990.