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Life in Derryrose is as chaotic as ever: Daisy has changed from airhead to farmer; Laura has left her American…
husband for good and her twin babies, Shaun and Scarlett, rule the roost; Sarah the teacher has turned feminist; and Helen, the original pineapple tart, still has not found the love of her life. Sequel to "The pineapple tart" (DC39795). Followed by "The dolly holiday" (DC39797). 1995. (Derryrose saga ; 2)
When the pregnant teenage daughter of a wealthy newcomer to Llanelen is found dead in the nearby woods, spa owner…
Penny Brannigan investigates the family's suspicious financial dealings while her paramour, Detective Inspector Davies, tracks down the killer. 2012.
In a debate underpinned with political and commercial positioning and controversy over scientific fact and assumption, Schacker's multi-faceted review of…
the dispute to date, and its possible consequences, helps us understand what is needed to reverse the bee decline threatening world food supply. He examines the many theories on the cause, including cell phones, mites, new pathogens, and bee management. 2008.
Steadfast Kansas. Down-home values, a fierce gossip grapevine, two intruders, and a library ghost. Why would God bring two people…
from the big city to small-town Steadfast? They're outsiders. They don't fit. They do nothing but stir things up. 2003.
Dave Robicheaux has known the Sonnier family all his life. He even dated the youngest daughter. But one doesn't want…
to be close to them, for they seem to hide dark secrets, like child abuse. The murder of a local cop will pull Robicheaux back to the Sonniers, who now include an oil baron and a TV evangelist, and force him to face a past he would rather forget. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1992.
Born and raised in Newfoundland, Hillier joined the military as a young man and quickly climbed the ranks, playing a…
significant role in the 1998 ice storm and moving on to command a multinational NATO task force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But it was his role as Canada's Chief of the Defence staff that defined him as a Canadian icon, as he demanded more funding, more troops and more appreciation for the women and men fighting in Afghanistan. Some strong language. c2009.
10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement - it's been two years since her parents delivered her to the…
school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. But Margaret soon realizes that she's an outsider in the Arctic - she's forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can't even stomach the food her mother prepares. As she struggles to reclaim her way of life, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people - and to herself. Sequel to "Fatty legs". Grades 4-7. 2011.
Artist Ross Laird, while working with volcanic rock, examines the persistence of the powerful symbolism of stones. Stones have always…
been viewed as foundations of community, symbols of self, and embodiments of sacred wisdom. He also examines the weaving together of the stories by which we construct our lives, individually and collectively. 2003.
When a devastating fire sweeps through St. John's, Newfoundland, in the summer of 1892, nineteen-year-old Lily Hunt hopes it's the…
beginning of a new life that will transform her from a dutiful daughter to a crusader, a suffragist, and a woman in love. Twenty years later, Lily's daughter Grace is deeply immersed in campaigning for women to have the vote. When Grace learns of her mother's involvement in the suffrage cause, the Lily she discovers bears little resemblance to the mother who raised her. Grace sets out on a quest to discover what changed Lily, and why she wants to hide her past. 2014.
In this collection of short stories set on the Prairies, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people who are…
flawed but at the same time blessed. In the title story, an outcast and misunderstood woman and her disgraced lover struggle toward a last chance at redemption. In others: a young girl learns important things about herself - some of them extremely unpleasant - on a storm-ravaged Mother's Day weekend; a woman sitting on the deck outside her Moose Jaw home receives an unusual and unexpected gentleman caller; a woman on a road trip in search of her erstwhile husband finds instead the one thing she never expected to see again in her lifetime; a group of young school students prepares a memorial for the town's deceased doctor, at the inadvertent risk of deeply offending his widow. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 2001.
Journalist Cowan and her husband lived and traveled in the former Soviet Union, in the midst of the coup against…
Gorbachev in 1991 and the attempted coup against Yeltsin in 1993. But before leaving for Moscow, she and her husband were trained by the Canadian government to learn how to gather intelligence. Cowan offers insights into spycraft in the nineties as well as anecdotes about the role of an 'official wife' of a Canadian military attaché. 2006.
Strange accidents are happening to Paula, one of the skaters at Millwood Arena. Everyone is on edge, including Angie, Paula's…
main rival. Some of the skaters suspect Angie, and the only way to clear her name is to catch the culprit. Grades 3-6. 1995.
Larissa Stark is many things. Wife, mother, devoted friend, and unhappy. When she has a chance encounter with an intriguing…
stranger, her idyllic existence is exposed for the sham it is and leads her to question everything she once firmly believed. 2018.
Born into poverty in Haiti, Jim St. Germain moved as a young boy to Brooklyn's Crown Heights with his alcoholic…
father. He quickly adapted to street life and began stealing, joining gangs, and dealing drugs. By the time he was arrested for dealing crack, he'd been cuffed more than a dozen times. But instead of prison, St. Germain, was placed in "Boys Town," a non-secure detention facility designed for rehab, where he slowly found his way. 2017.
The highly educated ruler of a small African country makes trouble for the United Nations when he provokes a racial…
incident in Charleston, South Carolina. Sequel to "Advise and Consent". 2016.
When a murdered journalist's body is found in Montana, Investigator Ali Paige is not assigned the case since the crime…
wasn't on federal land. But the prime suspect is the father of her child. And when he runs, Ali is torn between finding the truth and shielding her daughter from abandonment. Sequel to "The weight of night". 2018.
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class…
society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She'll have help from friends new and old, but in the end, it will be up to Charlotte, under the assumed name Sherlock Holmes, to challenge society's expectations and match wits against an unseen mastermind. Followed by "A conspiracy in Belgravia". 2016.
The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away…
from his estranged father. But that is not the only complication. Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the great-great-great granddaughter of the famous detective, who has inherited not only Sherlock's genius but also his volatile temperament. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar. From the moment they meet, there is a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under circumstances that are suspicious, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe; and the only people they can trust are each other. For junior and senior high readers. Followed by "The last of August". 2016.