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Canadian fiction, Indigenous peoples fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada fiction
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Enough alcohol silences the demons for a night; a gun and a single bullet silences demons forever. When a friend…
commits suicide and a former priest appears on television, the northern Aboriginal community is shattered. James and Jake confront their childhood abuse in a residential school, and break the silence to begin a journey of healing and rediscovery. Explicit descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2009, c2002.
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History, Ancient history
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The ruins of Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79 offer the best evidence we have of life in the…
Roman empire. This book will rise to the challenge of making sense of its remains. What kind of town was it? Some strong language. 2008.
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Literature, Poetry
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Covering over 40 years of Holub's poetry. BEFORE are his poems from the 1950s and 60s, poems written before the…
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, AFTER are his poems written after 1968. 1990.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is P.A to a powerful and very married…
Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - has carved out a career for herself in New York. Then there is Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, the Kennedyesque son of Lucky Santangelo. Back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle. When Annabelle's mother is found shot to death in her Beverly Hills mansion, the friends are thrown together, and secrets from the past have a way of coming back to haunt them. 2010.
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Polly the party fun fairy can't help with pass the parcel without her magic party bag of fun. Can Rachel…
and Kirsty rescue it in time for the Brownies' party? Grades K-3. 2005. (Rainbow magic ; 19). (The party fairies ; 5)
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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An avant-garde novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. With a diverse palette of vivid…
characters - from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of "New Filmmakers" that devises increasingly unexpected sexual scenarios with complete strangers, to a secret society that concocts a virus that only infects those on the political right - this book is about the visual arts, theatre, and performance of all types. 2014.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Humourous fiction
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When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt in…
Toronto - but Raina feels like she’s persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and she’s a social pariah at her new school. In the tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As the anonymous "Match-Maven," Raina sets up hopeless singles desperate to find the One. But her double life soon has Raina barely staying awake in class. Can she find the perfect match for her sister and get back on her good side, or will her tanking grades mean a second expulsion? For senior high readers. 2014.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fiction
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Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released into the community from a high-security mental health ward.…
But when the staff realizes that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, and furthermore that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate, and to track Isaac down before he can kill again. Will the terrifying little effigies Isaac made explain the incidents around the ward, or provide the clue Caffery needs to predict what he's got planned? 2013.
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Romance
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Four romantic tales in which loyalty and faith lead to love. In "Tarnished Silver" a New Yorker falls for a…
rural preacher. In "Twice in a Blue Moon" a widow and widower rekindle their relationship. "Texas Two-Step" reconciles a divorcing young couple. And "The Boy Next Door" depicts neighbourly romance. 1999.
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Biography, Sports biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Theo Fleury was a star in junior hockey, then became an integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win…
in 1989. Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky believed in him, and Fleury became a key member of the gold medal-winning men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics. Fleury talks about growing up devastatingly poor, and reflects on the personal issues that haunted him and ultimately derailed his Hall of Fame-calibre career. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Canadian history
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An exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. Dispels many prevailing myths that…
cast Canada as a land of benevolence and racial equality, and uncovers long-standing state practices that have restricted Black freedom. Creates a framework that makes legible how anti-Blackness has influenced the construction of Canada's carceral landscape, including the development and application of numerous criminal law enforcement and border regulation practices. Traces the historical and contemporary mobilization of anti-Blackness spanning from slavery, 19th and 20th century segregation practices, and the application of early drug and prostitution laws through to the modern era. Maynard makes visible the ongoing legacy of a demonized and devalued Blackness that is manifest today as racial profiling by police, immigration agents and social services, the over-representation of Black communities in jails and prisons, anti-Black immigration detention and deportation practices, the over-representation of Black youth in state care, the school-to-prison pipeline and gross economic inequality. Bestseller. 2017.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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A nameless young man drifts through a hallucinatory urban world filled with celebrity wannabes, addictive relationships, and easy money from…
bizarre jobs. The only thing he cares about is his ex-wife Rachel, who enters and exits his life randomly, driving all of the events of his life. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2002.
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Business and economics, Economics
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Rice and Zegart investigate and analyze the changing political landscape, what businesses can do to navigate it, and what all…
of us can learn about how to better understand and deal with these rapidly changing global political dynamics. 2018.
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General non-fiction
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A collection of essays that explore and critique the ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American…
boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. 2017.
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Science fiction
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Podkayne of Mars tells the story of a young Marswoman and her adventures. Podkayne has definite plans on what to…
do and how to do it, but not everything is as it seems. She is thrust into the middle of life-or-death situations when the liner she's traveling on makes a stop at Venus. 2016. Uniform title: Podkayne of Mars, her life and times.
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Romance, Contemporary romance
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Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend…
Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss. Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. She sets up a TV exec who wanted kids five years ago, a forty-year-old baseball-loving virgin, and a consultant with a rigorous five-page checklist for her ideal match. Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when Jonathan betrays her, she spirals out of control--and right into the arms of a writer with a charming Southern drawl, who she had previously set up with one of her clients. He's strictly off-limits, but with her relationship on the rocks, all bets are off. 2018.
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Family stories
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A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems, written before she was born,…
that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used. Grades 3-6. 2015.
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Biography, Family biography, Women biography
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At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became…
engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is woven together with the story of her mother, who emigrated from Poland, also at the age of twenty-eight, and adopted a son, Julian. Julian would die tragically, bringing her an unimaginable grief. 2016.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Legal stories
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Fifteen years after the events of "Black Water Rising", Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his…
personal life and the disintegration of his environmental law practice. His victory against Cole Oil is still the crown jewel of his career, even if he hasn't yet seen a dime thanks to appeals. But time has taken its toll. Tired and restless, he's ready to quit. When a girl goes missing on election night, 1996, in the neighbourhood of Pleasantville--a hamlet for upwardly mobile blacks on the north side of Houston--Jay, a single father, is deeply disturbed. He's been representing Pleasantville in the wake of a chemical fire, and the case is dragging on, raising doubts about his ability. The missing girl was a volunteer for one of the local mayoral candidates, and her disappearance complicates an already heated campaign. When the nephew of one of the candidates, a Pleasantville local, is arrested, Jay reluctantly finds himself serving as a defense attorney. With a man's life and his own reputation on the line, Jay is about to try his first murder in a case that will also put an electoral process on trial, exposing the dark side of power and those determined to keep it. 2015.
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Fantasy
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Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives--the complex athletic contest favoured by the lowliest Commoners…
and the loftiest Patrons alike. Pitted against far more formidable adversaries, success is Jes' only option, as her prize money is essential to keeping her hidden family alive. She leaps at the chance to tour the countryside and face more competitors, but then a fatal attack on her traveling party puts Jes at the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos--the prince she still loves--is fighting against their country's enemies. With a sinister overlord watching her every move and Kal's life on the line, Jes must now become more than a Fives champion - she must become a warrior. Sequel to "Court of fives", followed by "Buried heart". For senior high readers. 2016.