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Literature
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A personal study of the role of books and literature in our lives. The author interweaves the story of her…
Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts about how books shaped her world. 1996.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases,…
as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent and the not-so-innocent. 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of…
the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that the advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit. 2002. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Family biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Pauline Dakin, a CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her…
and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Bestseller. 2017.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories, Short stories
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Horace Rumpole, whom the nation has taken to its collective bosom, who continues to untie the knots in the English…
law and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice, is back on form in another collection of short stories. 1991. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories, Short stories
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Rumpole is the oldest Junior in Chambers, a barrister who never prosecutes, is apt to quote poetry, and has a…
wife known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed". The stories in this collection were previously published as "Rumpole of the Bailey" and "The Trials of Rumpole". 1980. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories, Short stories
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Six mysteries featuring Horace Rumpole. In one case, Rumpole defends an animal-rights activist who clashes with fox hunters. In another…
a doctor is accused of hastening the end of an Alzheimer's patient. And "She Who Must Be Obeyed," i.e., Hilda Rumpole, recounts his defence of a young boy charged with using a golf club to beat his father to death. 1996. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Humourous fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories, Short stories
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A collection of six new tales featuring that cigar-smoking Defender of the Faith, Horace Rumpole. 1990. (Rumpole mysteries )
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, War stories
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Eight-year-old Srulik escapes from Warsaw's Jewish ghetto and survives the rest of the war in Nazi-occupied Poland by pretending to…
be a Christian. After the war, having lost an arm, he reaffirms his original faith. Some violence. Grades 5-8. 2003. Uniform title: Ruts, yeled, ruts.
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Historical fiction
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In 1888 captive Chief Geronimo and other Apaches are being transported through Alabama when young Sky escapes the train. Ill…
with swamp fever, he accepts the help of Sarah Crossman and her parents. He gets a chance to repay the favour when the Crossmans must fend off white supremacists. Grades 4-7. 1997.
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Adventure stories
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A successful, respected banker risks his fortune and reputation to bring health and employment to a dead city whose inhabitants are the starving victims of depression. 1992.
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Historical fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
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London, 1775. Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding of "The Price of Murder" and his clerk, Jeremy, investigate the fatal leap…
of anticolonist politician Lord Lammermoor from Westminster Bridge. Clues suggest foul play as Sir John uncovers a web of family intrigue and possible connections to animal magnetism. Some descriptions of violence. 2005. (Sir John Fielding mystery ; 11)
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Romance
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A young Italian woman, Esmé, a member of the expatriate community in Nairobi, Kenya, tells her story of self-discovery. Describes…
her love for two men: Adam, who leads safaris and shows her the natural beauty of Africa; and Hunter, a reporter covering the massacres in 1990s Rwanda. Some strong language. 1998.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Steve O'Neill believes he is delivering a valuable set of stamps to Mr. Kingsley Brant, but he discovers he has…
stepped into the midst of a ring of thieves. Grades 3-6. 1973.
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Religion, Inspirational and family life
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Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the…
world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, "How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?“. Philip writes, “I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God's handiwork”. 2004.
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Health and aging, Humour, Aging (social issues)
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Rosenblat believes most people worry needlessly about things that aren't important, thereby taking years off their lives. Rosenblat gives advice…
on how to keep things in perspective and live life to the fullest in 54 humorous pieces. 2000.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Disabilities fiction, General fiction, Historical fiction
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Winston is suspended from school and keeps running away from home, so his mother sends him to stay with his…
father, a well-known newspaper reporter who's covering the story of Terry Fox and his friend Doug Alward. Winston spends time with Terry and Doug, and their determination to achieve what seems like an impossible goal makes a big impression on him. But can Winston learn enough to deal with an article of his father's that characterizes Terry and Doug in an unflattering way, and with his own problems? Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 5-8. 2003.
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General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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British barrister Horace Rumpole takes on the government when he accepts the case of a Pakistani doctor accused of aiding…
Al Qaeda. He also alienates his colleagues, his wife Hilda, and other clients, while he battles his own doubts. Meanwhile Hilda writes her memoirs. c2006, 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Humourous fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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Barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole takes on the British justice system and cases involving robberies, murder, rape, drug peddling, safe breaking and divorce. 1978. (Rumpole mysteries)
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Romance, Historical romance
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Captain Carroway loves the seafaring life, though he'd rather be battling brigands than ferrying a boatload of spoiled aristocrats. One…
passenger has caught his eye: Miss Zephyr Ponsley, who has traveled the world, but is completely innocent in the ways of love. She's never learned to dance or flirt, but scientific observation has taught her that the laws of attraction have no rules, and that no adventure is more dangerous than passion. Bestseller. Includes sex and violence. 2010.