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Mysteries and crime stories
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Jimmy Pitt, a likeable young man of independent means, burgles a house on a bet. He has the misfortune to select the home of Police Captain John McEachern. 1921.
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General fiction
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Two stories about women and their bad men, featuring Melody, who hires Scotty to take care of her cheating husband,…
but winds up seeking revenge, and Blake, who turns to her kingpin father's enforcer for protection from his employer. 2013.
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Christian fiction
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Elizabeth Landis never considered herself a religious person. In fact, she believed that churchgoers could be placed in a category…
called "Unaware." But just before she discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, Elizabeth is introduced to the members of the Church of the Open Door. 2003.
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General fiction
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As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of…
a gentleman hill farmer, has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, and Simone de Beauvoir. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer, while her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she feels herself to be, and she is forever changed as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly. 2009.
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Biography, Journals and memoirs
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When the author moved with his friend Gil from California to an Italian villa in 1982, he knew little about…
gardening. He writes of becoming a knowledgeable gardener and transforming an old, half-abandoned garden into an acclaimed stop on a horticultural tour. Some strong language. c2000.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths
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Set in the Adirondacks 1906, and built around the real life murder of a young woman in a popular holiday…
resort. When Mattie is given the letters by a guest at the hotel in which she has a summer job, she thinks the giver is simply upset. But when the woman is found drowned in Big Moose Lake, Mattie has to decide if she will read the letters, or burn them as the woman requested. But Mattie has problems of her own, as she is growing up and trying to decide on her future. For junior high readers and older. 2004.
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Award winning fiction, Historical fiction
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A story in diary form told by thirteen-year-old Catherine Hall, a New Hampshire farm girl who tells of everyday events…
such as quilting, berrying, and sugaring in the spring. She also acquires a new stepmother from the city and dares to help a runaway slave. Grades 5-8. 1980 Newbery Medal winner.
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Historical fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
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When a black man kills a Cajun farmer in rural Louisiana, a young white woman rallies the other black men…
to his defense. The "gathering of old men" face the local sheriff, each claiming to be guilty. Meanwhile, the brother of the murdered man argues with his father against organizing a lynch mob. Some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1983.
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Biography, Journals and memoirs
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'I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was 16 years old and he was 20 ' Thus begins Suze…
Rotolo's memoir of her life with Dylan in New York during the tumultuous early years of the Sixties, revealing the wonderfully romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair. This is a narrative of a place and time when art, culture and politics all seemed to be conspiring to make America freer, better and more equitable. 2009.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Canadian non-fiction, Humour
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"The Office Cat" appeared in the "Medicine Hat News" from 1921 to 1951, but only a handful of people knew…
who the Cat was. The column, the longest running of its kind in Canadian history, captured the essence of the era through its witticisms, limericks, jokes and inspirations. 1992.
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Science fiction
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In this story of time travel involving a future where the world is ruled by robots, Skid Roe struggles to…
exercise free will. He's both helped and hindered by a robot named Lem, whose good intentions leave Skid on the run from a state security agency. 2015.
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Historical fiction
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Harrigan uses a fictional character friend to give a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of…
his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearing as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his. 2016.
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Religion, Christianity
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Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations--open…
dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world. Inspiring and insightful, Pope Francis's views on immigration, poverty, diversity, globalization, and more are borne from his Christian faith and basic humanity. Meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century requires compassion for those in need, a willingness to work towards common goals without domineering other cultures, and the ability to negotiate with trust, respect, and dignity. And for the first time, Pope Francis shares insights into his own personality, and the formation of his faith, including his experience with psychotherapy, and some of the most important women in his upbringing. Controversial, bold, personal, and illuminating, this will serve to be essential listening for not only Catholics, but those who want to see how the "people's pope" confronts the social injustices of the world with the foresight to create positive change. 2018.
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Family stories
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As the aging Earl of Stanmore looks on, the lives of several generations of his aristocratic family are changed forever.…
Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Circles of time" (DC03521). c1985.
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Biography, Family biography
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Qais Akbar Omar was born in Kabul in a time of relative peace. Until he was 7, he lived with…
his well-to-do parents in the spacious, garden-filled compound his grandfather had built. Noisy with the laughter of his cousins, home was the idyllic centre of their quiet, comfortable life. But in the wake of the Russian withdrawal and the bloody civil conflict that erupted, his family was forced to flee and take refuge in the legendary Fort of Nine Towers, a centuries-old palace in the hills on the far side of Kabul. On a perilous trip home, Omar and his father were kidnapped, narrowly escaping, and the family fled again, his parents leading their six children on a remarkable, sometimes wondrous journey. 2013.
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Family stories
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Martin Dean spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything - from the benefits of suicide to the virtues of strip…
clubs - and passing on his self-taught knowledge to his son, Jasper. But now that his father's dead, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries - about his infamous criminal uncle, his mysteriously absent mother, and Martin's constant battle to leave his mark on the world. 2008.
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Family stories
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Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones with an acute appreciation of the engulfing warmth and love of…
their home. She finds their largely meaningless conversation quite restful. Oscar and Dorrie Livingstone see her as a mature and sensible companion for their daughter Heather and, although Rachel finds her "friend" exasperating, she finds herself drawn into an attempt to alter the course of her life - with strange results. 1987.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Historical fiction
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1947: Now that Margit and her family have settled into their new life in Toronto's Kensington Market, they have agreed…
to take in a Polish orphan. Lilly speaks no English and jealously guards her only possession: a photo of her mother and father. Unable to communicate with Lilly, or to comfort her when she wakes in the night with bad dreams, Margit and her family are feeling the strain. Even Margit's cherished friendship with Alice is at the breaking point. Will Margit ever be able to break through to this troubled young girl? Grades 2-4. c2007. (Margit ; 4)
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Arts and entertainment, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Beaucoup plus qu'un catalogue commenté de 65 oeuvres d'art (peintures, photographies, sculptures, dessins, vidéos, collages, etc.) qui constituent la "réserve…
d'oxygène" de l'auteur, ce bel album propose une somme d'aperçus et de réflexions sur l'art, sur les relations entre les arts, en particulier l'écriture et les arts visuels, sur l'omniprésence du corps dans les arts de représentation, etc. Prix du Gouverneur général 2006, catégorie études et essais. 2005.
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Romance, Romantic suspense
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La vie de Mallory Keswick ressemble à un conte de fées. Elle possède tout ce qu'une femme peut souhaiter :…
la beauté, la richesse, un mari qu'elle adore, deux charmants jumeaux de six ans. Son existence insouciante se déroule entre son luxueux appartement de Manhattan et sa maison de campagne du Connecticut. Que peut-elle désirer de plus? Rien, si ce n'est que ce bonheur dure toujours. Mais le destin en a décidé autrement. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. c1996. Titre uniforme: Everything to gain.