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Sports fiction
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Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and…
humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past. Sequel to "Ray and me", followed by "Ted and me". Grades 4-7. 2011.
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Biography, Sports biography
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For more than a decade, Tim Raines patrolled left field for the nascent Montreal Expos, alongside other superstars such as…
Andre “Hawk” Dawson, Gary Carter, and Steve Rogers. The seven-time all-star tore through the Expos’ record books before moving on to the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and Florida Marlins, ultimately earning three World Series rings (one as a coach). But it wasn’t always easy - Raines’s performance dipped in 1982, and at the end of the season, he entered a substance abuse program for cocaine addiction. He would ultimately resume his career several times, culminating in the Expos retiring his number (#30), and in January 2017, being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. 2017.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Sports fiction
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Being cut from the Huskies, the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years, Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket")…
reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence. Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life. Grades 4-7. 2014.
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Biography, Actors biography
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Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, this…
biography offers a fresh and original look at the life and career of Robin Williams. New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff explores how comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt. Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression, and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. 2018.
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Adventure stories, Movie and television tie-ins, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Jason Bourne has gradually come to realise who and what he really is - a strange amalgam of a man…
named David Webb, and a deadly killer. Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game for ever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2005.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, Humourous fiction
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The Wickers are an ordinary family, living an ordinary life in an ordinary neighbourhood, doing ordinary summer activities. But then…
a new family moves into the apartment building where Mr. Wicker is the custodian, and this ordinary event throws the entire family into some kind of mental chaos. This chaos is explored through the thoughts and minds of this family, often in a humorous way, showing that a person's inner life can be rich yet troublesome. 2000.
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Animal stories, General fiction
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Every summer Robyn goes to her cousin's mountain Tourist Lodge near Bear Lake. This summer she's determined to make things…
a bit more exciting - she wants to see some bears, so she can have a bear story to tell her friends. She ends up having lots of fun trying, but she doesn't end up seeing any bears, except when she least expects it. Grades K-3. 2000.
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General fiction, Romance, Sports fiction
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C'est à Philadelphie qu'a lieu le championnat poids lourds 1976. Les adversaires? Apollo Creed et l'aspirant Rocky Balboa, l'étalon italien,…
un anti-héros venu de nulle part qui a ce qu'il faut dans les tripes pour être, ne serait-ce qu'une fois, un véritable héros. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1978.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, General fiction
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When David Jung arrives on Rockbound to claim his small part of the island, he must find a way to…
survive in the harsh climate. Among the conflicts he faces are his struggles with the sea, his own rude behaviour, and his secret love for the island teacher. Some strong language. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Canada Reads 2005. 1928.
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Biography, Canadian non-fiction, Laws and statutes
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Traces Robinette's career from his beginnings as a litigation lawyer, to his successes as a civil lawyer in cases involving…
such corporate giants as E.P. Taylor, and his participation in the new Canadian constitution. c1984.
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Biography, Law and crime biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, True crime, Social issues
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In 1988, Marlene Moore, Canada's best-known female prisoner, committed suicide in the federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. The…
authors describe her childhood of abuse and her tragic life behind bars. For many, Marlene is an example of how badly our social and penal system can fail. Violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 1991.
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Science and technology
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This text follows the story of the lunar project, beginning at its inception at the start of the Cold War…
and tracing it through to its finest hour with the first moon landing and the astronauts' safe return. Through extensive interviews with astronauts, NASA staff and their families and never-before published documents, Craig Nelson presents an awe-inspiring human account of the voyage that changed the course of history. 2009.
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Hobbies and crafts, Science and technology
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Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Grades K-3 and older readers. 1984. (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)
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Fantasy, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Historical fiction
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Eight years have passed since Robin helped crush the rebellion against William and had his land restored. Robin still wants…
the Normans to be free of absolute rule by a monarch and, after arguing in court against the king, is banished from his land and made a servant to the king's son. An even greater threat sees Robin join his old nemesis, Ralf Fitz-Gerald, Sheriff of Nottingham. Sequel to "Sherwood." Some violence and some strong language. 1993.
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Biography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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A full-scale biography on the life of one of Canada's greatest novelists. Davies' interests included theatre, a passion that began…
at the age of four, Jungian psychology, and Victorian melodrama, all of which influenced his creative work and his life. His popularity as a national icon was established at the age of 57, with the release of "Fifth business." c1994.
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Science fiction
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Something about the barbarous settler from Baleyworld intrigued Madam Gladia Solaria, perhaps because both he and his planet were named…
after Elijah Baley, the short-lived Earthman who had been her lover two centuries before. But the robots Daneel and Giskard knew more: they too remembered Elijah Baley and now they must prevent his old enemies from plunging the galaxy into war - if the First Law of Robotics will let them. Sequel to "Robots of dawn" (DC04683). 1986. (Robot novels ; 4)
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Actors biography
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The author looks at the actor's rough-and-tumble youth, his notorious marijuana arrest in 1948 and the behind-the-scenes antics of the movie star. 1984.
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Science and technology
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This book touches on many topics, from the origin of robots in myth and literature to the details of how robots operate and their possible impact on our economy. 1988.
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
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Amnesiac spy Jason Bourne rescues his CIA friend Martin Lindros in Africa. Lindros persuades Bourne to follow the trail of…
Islamic terrorists purchasing nuclear material. Agent Soraya Moore joins Bourne’s search, but a spy lurks inside the agency. Sequel to “Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne in The Bourne legacy”. Followed by “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne sanction". c2007.
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Ghost and horror stories, Historical fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
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While investigating a rash of strange murders by the elusive Deptford Strangler in London in 1902, a retired police inspector…
and his nephew discover that a similar series of murders occurred in the year 1454 in Rogano, Italy. 1979.