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A peaceful English village is thrust into chaos when a teenage girl goes missing. As the search unfolds over a…
span of thirteen years, the village changes in ways no one could have predicted. Costa Novel Award Winner 2017. 2017.
As daughter of the ruling Pack family, Layla Warden is under pressure to settle down. Find a nice wolf mate…
from a nice wolf family and have nice wolf babies. Layla has other plans, but when you're a werewolf, biology trumps plans. And when Layla meets Sid, the sex is so intense, so hot, so consuming, it's more than just a connection. It's a mating bond. 2017.
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum…
from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. The bindings of his world are coming untied one by one, throwing Adam's life into chaos; yet in spite of everything, he may also find freedom in the release. For senior high readers. 2017.
Suze Simon was a teenage mediator – a person with the ability to see, touch and talk to ghosts, and…
to help them to the after life. Now, all grown up and engaged to her once-ghostly soulmate, Suze faces a vengeful spirit and an old enemy bent on ending her wedded bliss before it begins.You can take the boy out of the darkness. But you can't take the darkness out of the boy. Sequel to "Twilight". For senior high readers. 2016.
The author's rule of thumb is that when a child is struggling, the problem probably lies with the school or…
the system, not with the child. She knows that the K-12 system, with its rigid rules of advancement and endless testing, doesn't work for all children. She shows parents how to take control of grade placement, pace, style of instruction, disability diagnosis, gifted services, and many other aspects of our school system that seem inflexible, in order to shape them to the child's needs - not the other way around. 2018.
Chase does not remember falling off the roof; in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he…
gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids. Trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life? Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.
A dragon brings down the Vice President's plane, a monster army is camped outside Omaha, and an empath demon springs…
an undercover operation in New York. New Orleans was just the beginning. New and different demons are breaking through all over America, and Dave Hooper has a new enemy with more guile and guts than the celebrity superhero, still stumbling in his role as Champion. While his agent fields offers for movies and merchandise, Dave is tasked with ending a siege in Omaha, saving his friends and deciphering the underrealms' plans to take over the earth. Sequel to "Emergence"; followed by "Ascendance". 2015.
Katie never felt comfortable in her own skin. She realized very young that a serious mistake had been made; she…
was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be “normal,” Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally understood that “Katie” - the girl trapped within her - was determined to live. She reflects on her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak. For senior high readers and older. 2014.
Authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee argue that today's leaders face unprecedented challenges that result in a vicious cycle of…
stress and sacrifice. Here, they marshal decades of multidisciplinary research and hands-on consulting work to provide a practical framework for how leaders can create and sustain resonance in their relationships, their teams, and their organizations. Through vivid examples, the authors show how three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - are essential to enabling renewal and sustaining resonance. 2008.
Saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on…
the draw - a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous whites are once again intent on pushing the Oglalas from their already diminished lands. A man of honour through and through, Vin commits himself to their fight. But in these rough and tumble times, even the best gunslinger occasionally misses the mark. 2009.
The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab was an odd sight…
indeed. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. There was something terribly amiss. Despite a doctor's claims of death by natural causes, Pitt insisted on serious digging to unearth the truth - even if it killed him. Sequel to "Paragon walk", followed by "Rutland Place". 2001.
A lonely, desperate woman decides that the only way to alleviate her longing is to die. She hires a professional…
killer to murder her. The assassin, thinking he knows what she really needs, attempts to delay his task for as long as possible by having her tell stories about her life. 1998.
A guide for Canadians who are at or nearing the retirement stage of life. The author, having experienced many of…
the problems and disappointments encountered by many retirees, attempts to answer the key questions people may have about how to plan for a fulfilling and financially stable retirement. 1993.
Dr. Catalina Lopez of the Center for Disease Control hears that an ultra-resistant superbug is spreading like wildfire throughout hospitals…
and emergency rooms in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Graham Kilburn, an infectious disease specialist in Vancouver, joins forces with Lopez to try and stop the deadly epidemic. Neither realizes that shadowy forces are conspiring to spread the disease on purpose - and they will stop at nothing to avoid exposure. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.
Believed dead by all but the handful of supporters who rescued him from his Mataian enemies, Abramm Kalladorne has fled…
his homeland to the high mountains of northern Chesedh. Traveling under a new name with a group of bitter and increasingly desperate fellow exiles, Abramm hopes to reunite with his wife in Chesedh, where he will offer his services to her father in fighting the invading armies of the Black Moon. Sequel to "Shadow over Kiriath". 2007.
Rebus is off the case - quite literally. He has been sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining'. There,…
he meets other officers who have a similar problem with the very institution that houses them. As if this wasn't enough, the Scottish Crime Squad then asks a big favour of him. Violence and strong language. 2002. (Inspector Rebus ; 13)
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is…
recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and to trust nobody. Now years later she must complete one final assignment and this time she needs her daughter Ruth's help. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2007.
A ship trip to Port Said is suddenly enlivened when the sparkling Rocky joins the ship at Toulon. She makes…
an enormous impact on the rest of the passengers who find themselves warming to her delightful charm and friendly ways. Relationships form and emotions are stirred at sea, and Rocky plays a hand in the excitements of the voyage. 1983.
Twelve-year-old Lacey and her mother, Campbell, had left their home in the Appalachians ten years ago. Their return with Campbell's…
boyfriend to begin a new life creates problems for Lacey. Grades 5-8. 1986.