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Identifying the corpse is easy. Tracing the events which led to the victim's death is much more complicated, as Deputy…
Chief Inspector Banks travels from Yorkshire to Oxford University and as far away as Toronto. The clues lead back to Yorkshire, and a murder committed five years before. Some strong language. 1989.
Hill House, an ugly, abandoned old mansion, attracts four strangers to its haunted domain. Dr. Montague, an occult scholar, visits…
the house with three other people to find evidence of haunting. At first, they find little of interest beyond some odd noises, but the House is gathering its powers to make one of them its own. 1985, c1959.
Scobie is another failed hero (he commits adultery, connives at murder, takes communion without absolution and finally commits suicide), yet…
all the while, as a Catholic, has the possibility of judging his own actions and is truly the hero. 1969.
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon learns his friend, art dealer Julian Isherwood, has stumbled upon a murder scene…
in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. To save him, Gabriel must find the real killer and the most famous missing painting in the world. Bestseller. Sequel to "The English girl", followed by "The English spy". 2014.
Author's personal reflections on a monthly plan to improve her quality of life by the end of one year. Analyzes…
missteps, challenges, and successes in reaching her goals and shares the often unexpected lessons she learned. Bestsellers. c2009.
The body of a young British woman is found in a mass grave in war-torn Bosnia. On the case is…
former British agent Bill Penn, whose search focuses on a powerful Serbian warlord. Penn makes a daring attempt to capture the culprit and bring him to justice for war crimes. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995.
Fourth-grader Joe Sherlock aspires to follow in the footsteps of the famous Sherlock Holmes by solving local mysteries for $10…
a day. He bumbles toward the solutions but manages to solve the cases in the end. Here he attempts to discover who has been stealing things from his neighbour's house, including a glass eyeball and a bundt cake. Grades 3-6. 2006. (Joe Sherlock, kid detective ; 1)
For the millions of people who have turned away from many traditional beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible, but…
still long for a relevant, nourishing faith, Borg shows why the Christian life can remain a transforming relationship with God. Emphasizing the critical role of daily practice in living the Christian life, he explores how prayer, worship, Sabbath, pilgrimage, and more can be experienced as authentically life-giving practices. 2004, c2003.
1734. Marie-Joseph Angélique is a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal. On…
appeal, her punishment of death was modified to torture, to encourage her to name an accomplice, a white man, Angélique's sometime lover. A narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her indentured lot. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2006
Tim Wakelin, a recently widowed writer, heads to Canadian Shield country in search of a story about a healer named…
Caroline Troyer. When he enters her world, the landmarks of his own world disappear as their lives become intertwined. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c1998.
Nord de la Californie, fin des années 1960. Evie Boyd, quatorze ans, vit seule avec sa mère. Fille unique et…
mal dans sa peau, elle n'a que Connie, son amie d'enfance. Lorsqu'une dispute les sépare au début de l'été, Evie se tourne vers un groupe de filles dont la liberté, les tenues débraillées et l'atmosphère d'abandon qui les entoure la fascinent. Elle tombe sous la coupe de Suzanne, l'aînée de cette bande, et se laisse entraîner dans le cercle d'une secte et de son leader charismatique, Russell. Caché dans les collines, leur ranch est aussi étrange que délabré, mais, aux yeux de l'adolescente, il est exotique, électrique, et elle veut à tout prix s'y faire accepter. Tandis qu'elle passe de moins en moins de temps chez sa mère et que son obsession pour Suzanne va grandissant, Evie ne s'aperçoit pas qu'elle s'approche inéluctablement d'une violence impensable. Dense et rythmé, le premier roman d'Emma Cline est saisissant de perspicacité psychologique. Raconté par une Evie adulte mais toujours cabossée, il est un portrait remarquable des filles comme des femmes qu'elles deviennent. 2016. Titre uniforme: The girls.
He weighed as much as a horse; he once wrestled a bear; he could devour twenty-five chickens in one sitting.…
This whimsical book tells the story of Antonio Barichievich, the larger-than-life strongman who had muscles as big as his heart. Grades K-3. 2016.
Allison Briscoe is your average fifteen-year-old--until someone tries to kill her. Shot in the head, her doctors and family think…
she is in a coma, but in fact, though she cannot move, she can think, hear, and dream. Each night, Allison lives vicariously through her pioneer ancestors, entering the world of Rebecca Haun, a fifteen-year-old rebel who lived in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. To prove a friend innocent of murder, Rebecca betrays her Mennonite beliefs and joins the Women's Brigade with George Washington's rag-tag army at Valley Forge. And each day, Allison struggles to find a way to show her family that she is awake--a goal that becomes increasingly desperate when she realizes that whoever shot her has come back to finish the job. For junior and senior high students. 2016.
The author began a quest to find out more about an artist from the Cariboo named Sonia Cornwall (1919-2006). Through…
interviews, letters, original artworks, articles, exhibition catalogues, imaginings of conversations and occurrences, along with her own reflections on the experience, she pieced together a story of pioneering, love and the pursuit of art. But in searching for Sonia, the author found an unanticipated new friend in Sonia's mother, Vivien Cowan (1893-1990), who became a larger part of the story than she could possibly have imagined. 2013.
Caitlin Sachs, a Canadian journalist, discovers that Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman, has murdered Caitlin’s psychoanalyst partner, Dr. Jerry…
Simpson. Caitlin becomes obsessed with what really happened in Dr. Simpson’s study. As Caitlin struggles to uncover the truth about Inez’s relationship with Jerry, Inez struggles to break free from the preconceptions of others. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2011.
What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle, and what if he just happened to be in terrible…
danger? Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle named Gargoth of Tallus who lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him, Ambergine, his greatest friend. What Katherine and Gargoth don't know is that Ambergine is searching for Gargoth too - but so is his greatest enemy. Sequel to "The Gargoyle in My Yard". Grades 5-8. 2010.
Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on…
the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Sequel to "The girl with the dragon tattoo" (DC36314), followed by "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest". Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009. (Millennium trilogy ; 2)