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Historical fiction
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" Rien ne destinait César Ritz, né dans une famille paysanne du Valais, à l'hôtellerie et encore moins à la…
gloire. Arrivé à Paris pour l'exposition universelle de 1867, il se forme sur le tas, grimpe les échelons, devient serveur, maître d'hôtel, gérant puis directeur de palaces sur la Riviera, à Londres et bientôt à Paris. Génie entrepreneur, visionnaire, il incarne désormais le faste et les plaisirs des têtes couronnées d'Europe et des magnats américains. Mais tout prodige a ses démons et Ritz sombrera. Échappant à la biographie, Pauline-Gaïa Laburte évoque en phrases courtes et percutantes, maniant dérision et anachronismes savoureux, fantaisie et tragique, la fabuleuse ascension d'un homme dont le nom, partout dans le monde, est synonyme de luxe à la française. " -- 4e de couv.
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General non-fiction
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Une nouvelle étude controversée sur les rapports ambivalents qu'entretiennent les femmes entre elles, en amitié, au travail ou la maison.…
D'après Hite, il existerait une hostilité latente et un manque flagrant de loyauté des femmes entre elles. Côté travail, l'auteure observe que peu de femmes savent se servir de leurs contacts et construire des solidarités professionelles. Outre ces observations dérangeantes, les lectrices trouveront dans ce "guide du mieux-vivre en société" des propsitions claires sur la manière de traiter ses amies et congénères. 1999.
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The 2nd in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new…
as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels. Includes strong language. 2011.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach…
closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects. Gloria, born just before the Great Depression, knows from the moment she hears a soaring song played on the piano that she must follow that river of emotion. After an adolescence playing in churches and hotel lobbies, she prepares to study in post-World War II France, when another sort of passion intrudes and, halfway through her year abroad, she finds herself forced into a hard choice that she shares with no one. Her career blossoms, she marries, and has two more children, and her secret seems best forgotten - until, thirty years later, she learns of the murder of a young composer who could have been her son. 2015.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fiction
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Nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's…
no body attached is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a young man who has recently disappeared. Their search leads them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where one of Africa's most disturbing rituals may be making an unexpected appearance. 2013.
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General fiction, Historical fiction
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A group of runaway slaves find a new life along the Suwannee River with the Seminole Indians of Florida. Spanning…
two centuries, this is a story of hunters and cotton planters, plantations and tropical wilderness, and the saga of one man. 1997.
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Biography, Business biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction
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Lucille Johnstone was a living legend in the BC business world. In 1948, Lucille was working as a "girl Friday"…
for River Towing; forty years later Rivtow was a $250 million corporation, Lucille its president and CEO. This is the story of a brilliant leader known as much for her kindness and social conscience as for her talents in the boardroom. 2006.
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General fiction
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Thaddeus Kaufman, the son of booksellers, and Grace Cornell, raised in a basement apartment she longs to escape, meet at…
a neighbourhood art fair in Chicago. Soon after, they head to New York, aloft on the wings of young love. Jennings Stratton, the son of a caretaker, and Muriel Sanchez, the daughter of a cop, meet in a house he is refurbishing in New Mexico, and they, too, head for the big city. In a vast Hudson River estate, the lives of the two couples ultimately intertwine. Thaddeus has made it big, setting off a chain reaction of envy among his friends and forever changing the dynamic of his marriage. And Jennings, hoping to transcend his reputation as the local Casanova, has ventured into a cycle of theft and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fragile life of his family. A story about the pursuit of love, art, and money, and the inevitable reckoning that awaits us all. 2017.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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It's 1921 when the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife, and two staff are found in a manor house…
in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime, the killer is plotting his second strike. Followed by "The blood-dimmed tide". 2002.
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Biography, Politics and government biography
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When the most notorious duel in American history took place, Alexander Hamilton was 49, a former Treasury Secretary whose meteoric…
political rise had flamed out in the wake of a humiliating sex scandal. Vice President Aaron Burr was just a year younger than Hamilton, at the top of a meteoric rise of his own in the nation's fledgling government. Explores the largely unknown three-decade dance that led to the infamous duel. Traces the rivalry back to the earliest days of the American Revolution, when both men--brilliant, restless, and barely twenty years old--elbowed their way onto the staff of General George Washington; follows them as they launch their competitive legal practices in New York City and through the insanity of the election of 1800, when Hamilton threw his support behind Thomas Jefferson in an effort to knock Burr out of the running for president; and takes them finally to the dueling grounds from which only one would emerge. 2017.
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Movie and television tie-insNature, Animals and wildlife
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A companion to the Animal Planet series "River Monsters" highlights the most shocking creatures the author has come across in his travels as an extreme fisherman. 2011.
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Christian fiction
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Highlights two men whose lives converge inside Washington State's most unforgiving supermax prison. A death sentence is Brady Darby's punishment…
for a life of delinquency and murder. But after God uses Chaplain Carey to transform this felon's hopeless heart, Darby asks to be crucified. But as word of this unusual request spreads like wildfire, will the state grant him his wish? 2008.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a few days, but their plans are…
put on hold when unforeseen events demand their attention. First, an assistant district attorney is killed. Then, Judge Knott is asked to review the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Martha Hurst. Unable to resist, Judge Knott begins sifting through the evidence and finds the two cases may be connected. Sequel to "High country fall", followed by "Winter's child". 2005.
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Adventure stories, Canadian fiction
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Tom Penny leads a rough-and-tumble life of logging on the Gatineau River. Spring break-up starts a feverish raft race and…
unleashes a series of events. Sequel to "Tom Penny" (DC07009). Grades 4-7. 1979.
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Canadian non-fiction, History, European history, World War I
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In 1913, intellectuals and artists clamoured for change. Four years of trench warfare achieved this, but the passing of the…
war also brought revolution, inflation and dislocation. This book examines the origins, impact and aftermath of the Great War of 1914-1918. Nominated for the 1989 Ontario Trillium Award and for the 1993 Torgi Talking Book of the Years Award.
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Adventure and exploration, History, United States history, United States travel and geography
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A lively history of the first men and women to run the wild Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in…
crude wooden boats, rafts, kayaks, pontoons and motorboats. Some strong language. 1985.
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Biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Canadian travel and geography
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The author recounts summer days as a youth on a 70-acre piece of land on Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle River, and introduces…
his immediate and extended family, most of whom are farmers. He describes the effect of mining on the river and the valley, retells Cree and Metis legends, and also describes the more recent experiences of the Russians, Finns, Jews, Scots, and English who have settled in the area. A mixture of family history, ecology, and social commentary which laments the loss of rural culture. 2000.
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Christian fiction
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Young Gideon Kanagy faces a life-changing challenge - and an unexpected romance with his young Amish friend, Emma Knepp. Gideon’s…
sister, Rachel, and the outsider Jeremiah Gant add to the drama with their own dilemma and its repercussions for the entire community of Riverhaven. Sequel to “Rachel's secret”. c2012.
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Romance, Contemporary romance
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Beautiful Flame Morgan and ruthless real-estate magnate Chance Stuart become involved, unaware of long-standing family rivalries, but as the truth…
comes to light, fierce battles are waged at a devastating price. Descriptions of sex. 1989.
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Travel and geography
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Roberts visits Cairo and Alexandria, scales the great pyramids, experiences Sufi rites, sails the Nile, crosses the Arabian desert by…
camel, and through his meetings with politicians, scholars, artists and archaeologists, finds reasons to question old assumptions about modern and ancient Egypt. 1993.