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After routing Val Dooley’s outlaws in California, gunslinger Frank Morgan heads to the Texas-New Mexico border, where Val is kidnapping…
women and selling them into prostitution. Frank plots to set the hostages free and avenge Val’s crimes, but Val is ready. 2003.
Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her…
motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal blogger in early recovery from alcoholism; and Sara, an 11-year-old girl with a flock of elite show poultry. When Prudence is felled by a thyroid condition, things on the farm begin to fall apart, resulting in valiant and sometimes ill-advised attempts to restore domestic bliss. Efforts are complicated by a renegade mule, attempts to turn a hideously ugly child's playhouse into a high-yield roadside farm stand, and an electrical station's worth of crossed wires. Will Prudence get well? Will Seth finally get rid of his pesky virginity? Will Earl rescue Sara? And will anyone, ever, admit they might be wrong? Sequel to "The Woefield Poultry Collective". Winner of the 2016 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. 2015.
Artist Bin Okuma has recently lost his wife, Lena, and finds himself alone and pulled into memories he has avoided…
for much of his life. In 1942, after Pearl Harbor, his Japanese Canadian family was displaced from the West Coast. Now, he sets out to drive across the country: to complete the last works needed for an upcoming exhibition; to revisit the places that have shaped him; to find his biological father, who has been lost to him. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2011.
Drawing strength from the courage of their ancestors, Renno, an Iroquois Sachem, and his warrior son rise to the challenge…
of leading the Iroquois nation to victory. Sequel to "Sachem" (DC12898). Followed by "Tomahawk". 1981. (White Indian series ; 5)
Coyote Springs is an all-Indian Catholic rock band from the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington. Lead singer Thomas Builds-the-Fire, lead…
guitarist Victor Joseph, and backup vocalists Chess and Checkers Warm Water are reservation Indians, but they are also kids with guitars committed to putting on their own show. The stuff of their lives, the pain, the poverty, the humour, the resilience, grows out of their experience on the reservation, but also fuels their need to be heard in their own voices. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 1995.
Set in Toronto and its outlying areas, a makeshift family consists of a young woman, Tanis; her horse-dealer uncle, Walker;…
Tanis's mother, Joy; and Walker's girlfriend, Mimi, a singer. Tanis, self-sufficient, wise, and irreverent, is gripped in a difficult relationship with her mother and by her uneasy love of Walker. Just as she is ready to break away, a tragic event changes everything. 2003.
A fictionalized account of the life of Rene Levesque, whose charisma and passion for Quebec made him a hero, yet…
who remained distant and elusive to his friends. Some strong language. c1995. Uniform title: René Lévesque, portrait d'un homme seul.
Alan Rockway, his teenaged son Jeff, and Alan's new bride Jenny take a tourist submarine excursion at the end of…
a church couples' cruise. When it crashes and plunges toward the unknown, everything Alan has assumed about himself, about what awaits him in the future, is flipped upside down. 2006.
As the BBC's royal correspondent, Jennie Bond has covered many momentous events - among them, three marriage breakdowns, Camillagate, the…
Queen's annus horribilis and the death of the Princess of Wales, whom Jennie had met privately on a number of occasions. Included here is information from behind the scenes that has never been shared with the public before. 2001.
Jarrod Kilkline, ex-confederate soldier, is on the run for the shooting of a union soldier and a number of stage…
coach robberies, not to mention a bounty hunter. When he escapes from jail his troubles really begin. He is captured by Harry Phillips and the Apaches he is running guns for, along with a Yankee lieutenant he is reluctantly helping. The Indians are also holding a white girl. Can Jarrod save them all from torture and death and will he then have seen the last of the army and the bounty hunter? 1993.
Autobiography of the television journalist. Describes how Stahl began her career in 1972, her emergence into the public eye during…
the Watergate scandal, her appearances on Face the Nation and 60 Minutes, and her White House reporting during three presidencies. Discusses the evolution of the media; provides glimpses into her personal life. Bestseller. c1999.
A witty, sensitive midwestern farm girl changes her outlook on life after accompanying a beautiful but dumb friend to New…
York City on the beauty contest trail. For junior and senior high readers. c1974.
Recounts the experiences of Fireman First-Grade Dennis Smith and his colleagues in the New York City Fire Department. In the…
South Bronx, the crew not only fights fires but handles drug overdose cases, settles marital spats, breaks up brawls, and waters down the streets on hot summer nights. Bestseller. 1999.
Two vintage novels originally published in England under the pseudonym of Peter Curtis. "Requiem for Idols" describes a successful songwriter's…
weekend house party where her sisters and her business partner, an exotic black woman, lay bare their secrets. "You're Best Alone" deals with an odd triangle: a hermit farmer, his nephew, and his nephew's beautiful wife. 1981. Uniform title: Requiem for idols
Told in the form of a police report, this novel centres on the youngest and most innocent detective on the…
New York City police force who tracks down and kills a narcotics undercover agent wrongly identified as a runaway girl. He is immediately arrested for first degree murder. Bestseller 1972. Strong language.
When a stranger arrives in town on a vintage motorcycle, Jill Carpenter has no idea her life is about to…
change. When Chase Preston jumped on his motorcycle to escape, he didn't expect the perfect woman to fall into his arms, literally! Falling in love may require more than either can give. c2013.
Twelve-year-old Leo, called fog boy by his large Italian family, dreams of starring in the school play or becoming a…
hero. When he finds a journal written by his father at age thirteen, Leo wonders why people change as they grow up. Grades 5-8. c2005.
The author describes her struggles with divorce and single parenthood before meeting her husband, Marsh, whose many kindnesses she would…
jot down and make into a cause for thanks and celebration every Valentine's Day. 2009.