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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power. 2015.
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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When a young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Gabriel…
Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems, and the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth. Includes violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "Fallen angel". 2013.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Diabetes
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The New York Times bestselling author of "Eat to Live" and "Super Immunity", and one of the country's leading experts…
on preventive medicine, offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes - without drugs. Bestseller. 2013, c2012.
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Family stories, General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Romance
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After Susanna put her husband through law school and became pregnant, he left her to marry another attorney. When the…
court awards custody of their now eleven-month-old son to her ex-husband, Susanna leaves her new love and flees with the child. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997.
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Philosophy, Science and technology
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Charles Darwin was unusual in that he was a scientist who wrote for the general reader and this selection contains…
passages from his nine most important books. From the "Origin", his explanation of natural selection and his summary of the case for evolution; from "The Descent of Man", human intelligence and morality, and his theory of sex differences; and from "Coral Reefs", the wholly original and still accepted theory of the origin of coral atolls. 1987.
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Friendship stories, Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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During her evacuation to Canada, teenager Sara befriends Mr. Ito and his family. When the Ito family is sent to…
an internment camp following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sara realizes the cruelties of war. For junior and senior high readers. c1985.
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Family stories, Romance, Contemporary romance
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Virginia Keile secretly dreams of having a second chance to love the tall, dark Cornish farmer she foolishly lost 27…
years ago. Her life since has taught her harsh lessons about marriage and children, but now she is back in Cornwall with her children, to try and fill an empty house with love. 1973.
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Biography, Law and crime biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, True crime
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By the time Johnny "Pops" Papalia was gunned down at the age of 73, his massive crime network had earned…
him the nickname "Canada's Capone." Filled with tales of extortion, loan sharking, gambling and heroin, this book chronicles the rise and fall of Canada's most successful Mafia don. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when…
her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of the local florist, a gifted plantswoman. With Bud’s freedom, and maybe even his life, at stake, Cait has to fight the clock to work out which member of the small Mexican community might have killed the respected florist, and why. Investigating under the watchful gaze of the local police, Cait has to keep her relationship with Bud a secret, and she soon discovers she’s not the only one with something to hide. 2014.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction
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Sixteen-year-old Libby is disabled by cerebral palsy. She writes a fantasy novel called The Discovery of Flight as a present…
for her sister Sophie's thirteenth birthday, in which Libby takes the form of a hawk telepathically linked to a girl who resembles Sophie. Interwoven with Libby's novel is Sophie's diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister. 2018.
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Adventure and exploration
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On December 10, 1942, at the height of the Second World War, a crew of seven men boarded the bomber…
plane Time's A Wastin' and departed the American base at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on their way back to the United States via Goose Bay, Labrador. After crossing the Davis Strait between Greenland and Labrador, the B-26 ran into rough weather and crashed at Saglek, Labrador. All of the crew survived. As per their training, they stayed with the wreck to wait for rescuers--but rescue never came. This is their incredible story, as related by the diary kept by the pilot, First Lieutenant Grover Cleveland Hodge. 2018.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and…
her partners in the Three Sisters - May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee - have made during the last year. With the exponential expansion of the luxury-brand market in China, Ava and her partners are determined to see a young Chinese designer break out in Europe and North America and they go full out in London. The show is a success, but it attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in PÖ. Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base is pressured by VLG to abandon them. Ava decides to strike back and turns to Xu for assistance, leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest global crime syndicates: the Camorra and the Triad. Sequel to "The princeling of Nanjing". 2017.
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Historical fiction
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In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its…
chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. Chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime. Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? 2011. Uniform title: De fattiga i Łódź.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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A teenage girl living in a small island community in New Brunswick discovers that her father, an amateur scientist, has…
been conducting experiments on humans, and may be responsible for the death of the twin sister she never knew she had. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), War stories
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Who can you turn to when the only choice is between two evils? In 1941, fifteen-year-old Madli hopes that the…
Soviet occupation is temporary, but when the neighbours are deported, she knows that lives are in danger. Days later, the Nazis invade her country. Friends and family find themselves divided as they try to choose which dictator they'd rather live under: Hitler or Stalin. Madli is horrified by either choice, but how long can she remain neutral? Every day brings new dangers and unimaginable decisions. In order to survive, Madli knows she can't fight the enemy, so she is determined to outwit them. For senior high readers. 2012.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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London, 1869. Sherlock Holmes and his friend Irene celebrate her sixteenth birthday by watching Alistair Hemsworth, a magician, make a…
real dragon appear on stage, and even get to meet him - just as he is arrested for the murder of his rival, The Wizard of Nottingham. It seems that traces of the missing Wizard’s blood and his spectacles were found in Hemsworth’s secret studio, and not only is the Wizard his rival, but he also caused a scandal when he lured Hemsworth’s wife away. For junior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2011. (The boy Sherlock Holmes ; 5)
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she…
arrives at her aunt's house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It's a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But the gilded lives of her aunt Julia's family and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat - Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal. Will she be able to save her newfound family from the violence that encroaches on their seductive lives? Or, amidst growing unrest, will the true reason for her hasty exit from her posting be unmasked? 2017.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Family stories
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One morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes…
a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988 - Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away. As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories
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Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it’s not just how much he’s drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video…
calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman’s body had been found. He’s barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a merciless killer. 2015.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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A doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does…
break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The nurse, Helen, is pregnant; she escapes, but Paris is left behind, imprisoned by rebels as war rages. A narrative of brutal power about parental bonds, forgiveness, and identity, "The Colonial Hotel" recasts for the 21st century the ancient Greek story of Paris, Helen, and Oenone. 2014.