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Set in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, we follow the adventures of Hiroshi - prankster, forger, authenticator, and artist. The…
son of a Japanese courtesan and an American naval officer, Hiroshi never feels at home in Japan, and is constantly compelled to reinvent himself, sometimes with disastrous consequences. 2006.
Energy prices doubling and tripling in some areas and energy shortages are the result of privatization of publicly owned utilities…
throughout North America. The author argues that rather than moving blindly towards privatization of electricity production, North American society needs to step back and think about all the effects this momentous decision may have. 2003.
If you have ever seen a guide dog at work you will have been amazed by the level of training…
that produces such good behaviour. But now every owner can transform that lively, mischievous puppy into a beautifully-trained adult. 2004.
Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen-year-old Californian Calypso Kelly invents a fake handsome boyfriend,…
until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life handsome prince. For junior or senior high readers. Followed by "Stealing princes" (DC32903). 2004. (The Calypso chronicles ; 1)
This text is the story of Professor Peter Wilson, an agricultural scientist of international renown and enviably wide experience. In…
these pages he communicates his experience and wisdom in a thoroughly captivating way. He has travelled widely, working for long periods in Africa and the West Indies, and the close and fruitful rapport formed with both the indigenous populations and the expatriates is one of the engaging aspects of this work. On his return to this country the author has worked with distinction in the field of Agricultural Science, both in the commercial and the academic spheres. 2001.
Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small,…
unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East. 2016.
When Allison Beaumont is crowned Rose Festival Princess, she starts to receive dead roses and threatining phone calls. She asks…
Jennie McGrady for help and they both become involved in a dangerous hunt for a stalker. Grades 5-8. 1994.
For four decades, Hyrum W. Smith has been empowering people to effectively govern their personal and professional lives. In this…
book, Hyrum shows you how you can move from your world of work, simplify life, and enter what can be the most satisfying phase of your life--a new world of purposeful retirement and good living. 2018.
Simeon thought he was living a good life--solving mysteries, falling in and out of love, risking life and limb to…
do the right thing. Then the last Simeon Grist mystery was pulped to make newsprint, and he woke up in a room where nothing ever changed except his sense of who he was: his entire existence was a work of fiction that the real world was in the process of forgetting. And when one of his few remaining readers is murdered, Simeon discovers that he can--at great risk--step out of the pages of his books and into the world of the living. The only problem: even if he succeeds in solving the murder, winning the love of a real-life woman, and finding the man who wrote him, he could still die trying. Sequel to "The bone polisher". 2017.
In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From…
an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew. 2018. Uniform title: Short stories.
Nikki Boyd's flight into Nashville was routine--up until the crash landing at the airport. When the dust settles, Nikki discovers…
that the woman who had been seated next to her on the plane is missing--and no one will admit she was ever there. Erika Hamilton had been flying to Nashville with an air marshal as a key witness in an upcoming grand jury trial. When she flees from the crash, is she running from trouble or straight into it? Before Nikki can even see her family, she and her team are pulled into a missing persons case where the motives are as unclear as the suspects. Sequel to "Missing", followed by "Vanishing point". 2018.
Matt Hunter lost his faith a long time ago. Formerly a minister, now a professor of sociology, he's writing a…
book that debunks the Christian faith while assisting the police with religiously motivated crimes. On holiday with his family in Oxfordshire, Matt finds himself on edge in a seemingly idyllic village where wooden crosses hang at every turn. The stay becomes more sinister still when a local girl goes missing, followed by further disappearances. Caught up in an investigation that brings memories to the surface that he would prefer stay buried deep, Matt is on the trail of a killer determined to save us all. 2017.
The story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who…
passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again? 2017.
In this historical-fiction narrative, John Demos shares the story of Eunice Williams, a young Puritan girl who is kidnapped by…
Mohawks and taken to Canada. There, she is adopted into a new family, a new culture, and a different way of living. Both instructed in the Mohawk language and customs and catechized in the Roman Catholic tradition, Eunice spends her days learning to plant and harvest food and tan animal skins, among other chores. Although her father and brother try to persuade Eunice to return to Massachusetts, she ultimately chooses to remain with her Mohawk family. Grades 2-4. 2017.
A smartly-dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently…
dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Chris Reynolds, a specialist who treated the deceased--and who struggles with mental health issues--is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions. However, someone doesn't want the questions answered and will go to any lengths to prevent it, including an attempted murder. But when no one will believe that someone tried to kill Chris, the doctor is left with no option but to discover who the nameless man was and why he died. 2017.
Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now…
Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once? Sequel to "To all the boys I've loved before". Junior High and older readers. 2015.
Gianna Velez-Saldana is the proprietress of an upscale boutique in one of the Gold Coast's trendiest suburbs - trying to…
leave her brief marriage in the past. But when her husband Raul unexpectedly shows up, their old flame is given new life. His desire is to continue their life together, but she is still haunted by how it all ended. 2011.
Hollywood bad boy Mac Brody refuses to be judged by Juno Delamare for refusing his brother's wedding invitation - but…
he can't get feisty Juno out of his head. So he goes to the wedding - to strip away her defences and her bridesmaid dress. When their steamy night hits the headlines, Mac sweeps Juno away for a two-week affair. 2011.
Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious…
man. When Logan doesn’t apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes within the time limits will return Logan to normal. Grades 4-7. 2011.
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west…
end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn. Dan's search for the killer takes him underground in Toronto's broken social scene - a secret world of misfits and guerrilla activists living off the grid - where he hopes to find the key to the murders. Sequel to "Lake on the mountain". 2014.