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An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investigation to…
uncover what happened. While signs point to murder, vital questions remain. Who is the victim? And where, exactly, was he killed? One small clue leads the Inspector to a firm built by two families, famous for producing and selling the world's best Madeira wine. Alone in a no man's land rife with mystery and danger, Rutledge must tread very carefully, for someone has decided that he, too, must die so that cruel justice can take its course. Sequel to "The confession", followed by "Hunting shadows". 2013.
Pauline agrees to return to England to live with her father and half-sister. Once there, she is constantly manipulated by…
her father as he attempts to arrange the life of his simple-minded, eldest daughter, Nan, before his death. 1988.
Macdonald's personal life was a mix of drugs, booze, women, back-biting, a harsh childhood, an unplanned pregnancy, unchecked social ambition,…
a child's unpunished murder, a distant Queen Victoria and Louis Riel. Amid all that, Macdonald managed to become prime minister seven times while spearheading a national railroad and pulling errant provinces together into the cohesive whole known today as Canada - and all of this while mostly drunk. 2006.
Activist Maude Barlow traces the history of medicare in Canada, which began in 1966. She compares it with both public…
and private systems in other parts of the world, and describes the proponents of privatization in Canada. Barlow argues against the notion that medicare is a luxury that Canadians can no longer afford. 2002.
Native American spirituality teaches the value of living in harmony with the earth, of honouring each other and respecting the…
interdependence of all life. This introductory guide explains what a vision quest is, how to reconnect with nature, how to purify with herbs, what a sweat lodge is, what a medicine tool is and what the Great Mystery is. 1996.
Spiritual medium Altea takes the reader farther along the path of her personal cosmology. She explains how the living affect…
the dead's happiness and well-being, discusses reincarnation, and whether souls heal emotionally and spiritually after death. Provides dozens of stories about the lives and deaths of real people, and shares the insights and processes that helped heal her own wounds. Sequel to "The eagle and the rose". Some descriptions of violence. 1998.
Biography of renowned film director John Ford (1894-1973), who for over fifty years made such movies as "The grapes of…
wrath," "Stagecoach," "The last hurrah," and "Cheyenne autumn." Evaluates his work and relationships within Hollywood as well as his personal life. Analyses his social vision as portrayed in his films. c1999.
The author recalls her life as a Christian in Iran. Discusses her childhood, her two-year internment in Ayatollah Khomeini's prison…
from age sixteen, and her rescue by her interrogator, Ali. Covers her marriage to Ali, his death, and Nemat's emigration to Canada. Some descriptions of sex. Descriptions of violence. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2007.
Eighteen-year-old Ashley has no plans for college and wants nothing to do with the senior prom at her urban high…
school. When disaster strikes and her desperate friend Natalia needs help, Ashley's involvement transforms her life. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. Bestseller 2005.
She was born Princess Marguerite Valensky, but everyone has called her Princess Daisy since she was a baby. She grows…
up blonde and beautiful in a world of aristocrats and wealth, where men desire her and women look on in envy. Suddenly, the fairytale ends, and she has to start life again with nothing except the secret she has guarded from the day she was born. Descriptions of sex. 1980.
Alistair "Allie" Morrison lets his friend Mackie talk him into enlisting for WWII, and after training for months, they participate…
in their first battle - the disastrous raid on the German-held port of Dieppe. Caught in the middle of a massacre, Allie and Mackie survive only to be captured and sent to POW Stalag VIIIB in Germany. Still shell-shocked from their fighting, the soldiers struggle to maintain their courage, while others, like Mackie, are determined to escape. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. 2010. (I am Canada)
The author claims to tell the true story of Princess Diana's affair with James Hewitt, staff captain in the palace…
Household Division. They met at a party in 1986, where Diana inquired if James, who ran the household stables, would help her overcome her fear of horseback riding. Supposedly the two were attracted immediately and soon developed a romantic relationship. The author has recreated their thoughts and conversations during a five-year period. Bestseller 1994. 1994.
Anya's diary describes her difficult life in Horoshova, in Austria-Hungary, and how her family immigrates to Canada. When the First…
World War breaks out, she becomes the sole provider after her father is laid off for "patriotic reasons", and the social climate leaves the streets a dangerous place. Eventually, the family and nearly all of their neighbours are sent away to the Spirit Lake internment camp, where they are treated as criminals. Grades 5-8. 2007.
Publicly, John Spada heads an enormous multinational corporation; privately he runs a clandestine resistance movement dedicated to liberating prisoners of…
conscience. When legitimate means fail him, and government-paid assassins close in on him and his family, he becomes an outlaw ... and holds the world hostage. 1991.
Charley Partanna, a hitman for the Prizzi family, falls for Mardell La Tour, a nightclub showgirl. But Maerose Prizzi, the…
granddaughter of Don Corrado, can only realize her dream to be boss of the family if Charley marries her. Followed by "Prizzi's honor". Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987, c1986.
Wurtzel claims to speak for herself and for a young generation facing major societal problems. A former popular-music critic for…
the New Yorker, she details her life with depression, from a despairing pre-adolescence through suicide attempts after college. Prozac has helped her, but she worries that its trendy reputation may minimize the seriousness of depression. Strong language. 1994.
Elliot's account of Marie Adelaide of Savoy is interwoven with the story of life at the court of Louis XIV,…
the Sun King. Marie is only ten when she arrives at Versailles to marry the duc de Bourgogne, but her arrival brings life back into what has become a dying court. Marie is portrayed as having a keen wit and also as kind, thoughtful, intelligent, and dignified. 1992.