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Eight humorous stories about an unusual assortment of animals including a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch owned…
by rat terriers, a mouse who is the housekeeper for a tomcat, and a buzzard who may or may not leave his money to the Society for Stray Cats. Companion to "Rats on the Roof and Other Stories". For grades 2-4 and older readers. 1993.
Chicago detective Ransom, happiest soaking in a tub and reading Dickens, is attracted to Angela Stephens but can't help her.…
A fortune-teller has predicted Angela's murder and described the killer as Angela's husband. When Angela is strangled, though, her husband doesn't seem to have a motive, and Ransom can't believe he's guilty. Some strong language. c1995.
Zack and Uta retrieve a large egg from a dig site in Utah that promptly hatches into a baby dinosaur;…
a raptor, at Zack's house. When the mother raptor breaks in searching for her baby, the nightmarish complications begin. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c1998.
Fairdale, Texas, a town in the wild west, is a hotbed of crime. Surprisingly, the mayor doesn't want any help…
from the Texas Rangers to clean things up. Little does he know that his daughter will soon fall in love with one of the Rangers, and that the mayor's own ties to the bandits will be at risk of exposure. 1997.
There are six children, all different in age and, more especially, in character. They have known one another and their…
families for most of their lives, but this is the year when everything they ever thought they knew will change. It begins when Nancy and Andrew decide to poison their mother. Grade 5-8. Strong language. 2000.
Eleven-year-old Jamie, bookish and overprotected, becomes so engrossed in an old Indian's mystical beliefs that he risks his own safety…
to return an ancient Cheyenne medicine bag to its rightful burial place. Grades 4-7. 1974.
Randy Bachman has been writing and recording chart-topping songs his whole life, and since 2005, treating fans to a lifetime…
of stories on his hit CBC Radio show “Randy’s Vinyl Tap”. Even with all his success Randy is “still that kid from Winnipeg,” and his enthusiasm for great music is as strong as ever. 2011.
On a plain in prehistoric Utah, 120 million years ago, the dinosaur named Raptor Red must strike out on her…
own when her mate is killed while stalking prey. It is the start of a year-long odyssey of survival as she searches for a new mate. The author is a leading paleontologist. Descriptions of violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1995.
Set in New York City, Rita Mae Weems, a woman from Queens, works as a rat exterminator for the NYC…
Department of Health's Pest Control Division. Meanwhile Rita's best friend Killer is falling in love with the rakish and enigmatic Troy Ruby, and there is David, a writer who is HIV-positive, who is struggling to be truthful about the AIDS experience even as his family averts their eyes from his day-to-day efforts to stay alive. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1997.
A comedy set in an East European city. An English academic linguist on the cultural circuit discovers that the currency…
of the language is as flexible as the country's coinage, culture and sexual mores. Includes sex. 1983.
In the title novella, a woman commits suicide without warning, leaving her family to imagine the future. "The Person I…
Have Mostly Become" depicts an unemployed son who struggles with his emotions as he observes his mother in a subservient position. In "Aren't You Happy for Me?" a pregnant young woman calls her parents to announce that she is marrying her old professor. Strong language. 1994.
Levy discusses the rise and fall of the group originally named by Lauren Bacall. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis…
Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop became some of the most popular entertainers in the early 1960s. Strong language. c1998.
Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his St. John's restaurant, The Auk. His friend Alphonse Murphy, however,…
proposes an unusual idea which soon has The Auk crawling with the local glitterati. But Phonse has been up to some other tricks as well, and they have caught the attention of certain sinister forces. Strong language. 1997.
Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses,…
he expects a quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He finds himself landed in the middle of a nightmare world, where big money is at stake, and all around him is sudden bloody death. 1972, c1970.
Seven silly stories about some very unusual creatures. There are rats who can dance, a sheep who can't read, an…
owl who outwits a dinosaur, and a goose who mistakes her wolf neighbours for birds! Grades 2-4. 1991.
England, 1291. Finnula Crais helps her unwed, pregnant sister obtain a dowry by kidnapping a knight for ransom. But Finnula…
doesn't realize that her captive is the village's earl, Hugo Fitzstephen, who is returning from the Crusade. Treachery awaits them. 2009.
In the third Scobie Malone novel the newly married Malones are on a delayed honeymoon in New York, where Lisa…
vanishes on a visit to the dentist, with the Mayor's wife. Five anarchists are to be put on a plane to Cuba or else! Sequel to "Helga's web", followed by "Dragons at the party". 1973. (Inspector Malone mystery ; 3)
Martin Farrell, son of a penniless but devoted backwoods doctor, inherits his father's exceptional abilities. He enters the adventurous field…
of brain surgery. It is a hard uphill fight to international fame, a path criss-crossed by the destinies of two very different women. 1980.
"Il existe dans toutes les sociétés, celles d'aujourd'hui comme celles d'hier, des valeurs et des croyances qui en viennent à…
exercer un tel ascendant qu'elles s'imposent aux esprits. D'origine religieuse ou non, elles jouissent d'un statut qui leur permet d'échapper en grande partie à la contestation. Toute remise en question est perçue comme une profanation. Ainsi, qui voudrait rejeter les libertés civiles en Angleterre, l'égalité des citoyens en France, le droit de propriété aux États-Unis, ou bien l'égalité des races en Afrique du Sud, ou encore l'égalité homme-femme au Québec ? S'appuyant sur la raison, mais se nourrissant surtout d'émotion et de sacralité, ces valeurs sont devenues intouchables. Par quel chemin y sont-elles arrivées ? En d'autres mots, comment naît un mythe ? Comment accède-t-il à la sacralité ? Comment se diffuse-t-il et assure-t-il sa reproduction ? Comment vient-il à décliner ? Quel rôle y jouent, d'un côté, les forces de l'inconscient et, de l'autre, les acteurs sociaux ? Et pourquoi ne porte-t-on pas davantage attention à ces représentations puissantes qui expriment les sentiments les plus profonds d'une société, qui nourrissent les identités, les idéologies, qui structurent les visions du passé et de l'avenir, qui inspirent les choix collectifs et balisent le débat public ? " -- 4e de couv.