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Tucker, a con with a 20-year sentence in a maximum security prison, is given an opportunity to escape. Who were…
the men who had this power to release him, and what did they want in return? Followed by "The Domino vendetta".1985.
Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist, Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire,…
terrified of being adopted, an evil hypnotist, swindlers, con-men - and Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Elkin creates a comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them. 1998.
Covers the nine years (1660-1669) during which the author kept his diary. Describes Pepys’ social and domestic life, the plague…
of 1665, and London’s great fire of 1666. 1991. Uniform title: Diary.
The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to…
keep it off for good: Step 1: Attack. For 2-7 days eat as much as you want of 72 protein-rich foods. Step 2: Cruise. Continue eating the protein-rich foods with the addition of 28 vegetables. Step 3: Consolidation. Add fruit, bread, cheese and starchy foods, and 2 celebration meals a week, allowing 5 days for every pound lost. Step 4: Stabilisation. Eat what you like without regaining weight by following 3 simple rules, including the famous 'protein Thursdays'. Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years' clinical experience. The Dukan Diet offers simple guidelines, menu planners and recipes for long term success. 2010.
Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years. His father is hunting them. At least, that’s…
what Cameron’s been told. When they settle in an isolated farmhouse, Cameron starts to see and hear things that aren’t possible. Soon he’s questioning everything he thought he knew - including his own sanity. What’s hiding in the night? Buried in the past? Cameron must uncover the dark secrets before they tear him apart. For junior high and older readers. Winner of the 2016 Red Maple Fiction Award. Winner of the 2017 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. 2015.
Dating a popular boy and adhering to every rule ever written, a high school senior at an elite Vermont boarding…
school begins to shed her good girl identity after an angry incident with her distant father. Some strong language. For senior high students. 2011.
The book depicts the poverty and cruelty experienced by a partly-Jewish family in a rural village in the late 1960s…
and early 1970s. In a tiny village in northeast Hungary, close to the Romanian border, a young, unnamed boy warily observes day-to-day life and chronicles his family's struggles to survive. Like most of the villagers, his family is desperately poor, but their situation is worse than most--they are ostracized because of his father's Jewish heritage and his mother's connections to the Kulaks, who once owned land and supported the fascist Horthy regime before it was toppled by Communists. With unflinching candor, the little boy's observations are related through a variety of narrative voices--crude diatribes from his alcoholic father, evocative and lyrical tales of the past from his grandparents, and his own simple yet potent prose. Together, these accounts reveal not only the history of his family but that of Hungary itself, through the physical and psychic traumas of two World Wars to the country's treatment of Jews, both past and present. 2016.
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the Okavango Delta to visit a safari lodge beset by unexplained events. There…
they are awestruck by the breathtaking scenery, but also troubled by the region's many difficulties--not the least of which is the occasional grumpy hippopotamus. 2010.
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York, Kimball was beginning to feel a sense of longing for family…
and home, and when she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Smitten, she moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start Essex Farm. This chronicle of the first year describes how she and her future husband grew everything needed to feed their community. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2010.
A business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreams. The fictional company…
in this book is grappling with real problems of high turnover and low morale, so the managers begin to investigate what really drives the employees. What they discover is that the key to motivation isn't necessarily the promise of a bigger paycheck or title, but rather the fulfillment of crucial personal dreams. c2007.
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match,…
becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to go where he wants, Brin-Jonathan Butler has always been the 'act first, ask permission later' kind of journalist. This book is the culmination of Butler's decade spent in the trenches of Havana, trying to understand a culture perplexing to Westerners: one whose elite athletes regularly forgo multimillion-dollar opportunities to stay in Cuba and box for their country, while living in penury. 2015.
Chronicles the rise of Dave Nichol, whose work with private label products helped revolutionize the supermarket industry. First brought into…
Loblaws by Galen Weston in 1971, Nichol became president in 1976, but was moved to a smaller arm of Loblaws in 1984. Here, he met his great success, developing President's Choice into a retail phenomenon. Kingston discusses Nichol's work at Loblaws, his aggressive and sometimes abusive personality, and his departure from Loblaws in 1993. 1994.
Richard de Mille's publisher demands a novel with a murder in it. When the publisher is murdered, Richard becomes the…
prime suspect. Drugged and imprisoned, he begins to question reality and his sanity. Strong language. 1992.
Joseph (Augie) Merasty was one of 150,000 children taken from their families and sent to residential schools. Merasty takes readers…
inside his time at residential school, where he was taught to be ashamed of his family and his culture and where he experienced emotional and physical abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through. 2015.
Provides a blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products…
in innovative ways, re-educate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future. 2005, c1993.
Explains the basic geology of the unstable Pacific Coast and Central America to Alaska and the volcanically active islands of…
Hawaii. Discusses earthquake disaster planning in southern California and the probabilities of a major earthquake in the near future. 1987.
Lady Beth does not want to be part of London's social season so she pretends to be dangerously eccentric. The…
plan backfires and she becomes the toast of the town. 1983.
A revealing look at how the Eaton dynasty was created over four generations and almost destroyed in one. It discusses…
the private and business lives of a colourful cast of characters who have touched the lives of Canadians from coast to coast. 1998.
Chubby fifteen-year-old Virginia of New York City is pressured by her family to look better. Helped by her best friend,…
her first boyfriend, and a teacher, she overcomes her insecurities and asserts her personality. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003.