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Canadian fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, General fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada fiction
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A retelling of twelve tales from various North American Indian cultures describing how Sky Bear, the Big Dipper, sees the earth from the sky. Grades 3-6. 1995.
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Ghost and horror stories
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Presents twenty of Poe's best-known poems and tales. 2000. To -- Alone -- The City in the sea -- The…
Fall of the house of Usher -- The pit and the pendulum -- The Masque of the red death -- The Tell-tale heart -- The Black cat -- The Raven -- The facts of the case of M. Valdemar -- The cask of Amontillado -- The bells -- Annabell Lee -- Eldorado -- Ligeia -- The imp of the perverse -- Morella -- Berenice -- The gold bug.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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An art collector and retired thief employs an American Vietman war veteran to track down some lost 'El Greco' paintings. 1974.
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Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment
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Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.
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Fantasy, Historical fictionCanadian non-fiction
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The stories of those who would teach the boy Arthur are told. Uther Pendragon, the father whom Arthur would never…
know; Ambrose, the warrior saint who taught the boy to love and to fight; and Caius Merlyn Britannicus, the half-Roman, half-Celtic hero who was destined to become the greatest magician of all time. Sequel to "The singing sword" (DC12930). Followed by "The Saxon shore" (DC14607). c1994. (A dream of eagles ; 3)
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Indigenous peoples fiction
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Abandoned by her mother years ago, and with her emotionally distant father on military duty in occupied Japan in 1946,…
Clearice, twelve, comes to live with her Tlingit grandmother in Alaska. After what seems like a cold welcome, Clearice adopts an icy attitude toward everything around her. But her feelings change as she becomes friends with Mark and learns more about her Indian heritage. Grades 5-8. 1997.
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Suspense and thrillers
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For centuries a secret has been carefully hidden from those who would abuse its power. One daring and enigmatic woman…
gives her life to defy the rules and protect history from changing course forever. With France aflame in revolution, and the power of her king checked, the nuns of Montglane Abbey are forced to unearth a secret buried for a thousand years within their fortress walls. As the women scatter across the world they take with them the pieces of a mythical chess set given to Charlemagne by eight mysterious Moors. Embedded in each piece of the chess service is a code. 2006.
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Historical fiction
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Alfred, fifth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex, never imagined that he would ever wear the crown of Britain. Yet…
he was destined to become England's greatest king. He alone could defeat the invading Danes and so change England's fate forever, with the beautiful Elswyth, Princess of Mercia, at his side. 1992, c1990.
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Award winning fiction, Erotic fiction, Historical fiction, Romance, Historical romance
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London, 1829. Acclaimed romance writer Marina Wyatt, the widowed countess of Gorham, falls in love with the scholarly Jasper Hedges,…
an uncle of her young friend Sir Anthony Hedges. While indulging in their clandestine affair, Marina is blackmailed for past indiscretions. Some strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Rita Award. c2008.
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Adventure stories, General fiction, Historical fiction
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Fictional recreation of the mystery surrounding the flight and disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937. Thayer ties her flight into a secret mission against the Japanese. 1980.
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Sports and games, Hockey
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Advice on various aspects of hockey such as skating, passing, shooting, practicing, and stickhandling. For hockey fans in grades 4-7 who want to increase their understanding of the game. 1977.
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General fiction, Historical fiction
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Conjures up 12th century England, its harshness, its civil war upheaval, and the noblemen's changing ploys and alliances as King Stephen and Henry Plantagenet of Normandy vie for England. 1971.
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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Fearing her mother's return from prison, African American college student Teresa recalls life when her father was at home and…
her sister was still alive. Her mother, Lena, is also worried about facing family and friends after her release. Over time, they all struggle to understand the terrible events that led to a child's death. Some descriptions of sex. 1998.
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Jane, with whom Mike is having an affair, vanishes suddenly. All his efforts to trace her are in vain as…
she desperately avoids the eighth sin: that of being found out. 1976.
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Friendship stories, General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Romance
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Lucy Fly, a young English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator, finds herself the prime suspect in…
the murder of Lily Bridges, a young woman that she befriended who had fled from trouble in Yorkshire. Explicit descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2002.
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Historical fiction
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45 AD. Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their…
involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. The imperial secretary makes them an offer: with Vitellius, their old enemy, rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates. But the pirates are forewarned, and outnumbered by the enemy, surrounded by rumours of treachery and endangered by Vitellius' desire to redeem himself, Centurions Macro and Cato must find the pirate base to avert a disaster that could destroy the Emperor. Includes violence and strong language. 2005.
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Historical fiction
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44 AD. Roman legions are in their second year of campaigning against the British tribes, and Centurions Macro and Cato…
are with the crack Second Legion under the precarious leadership of Centurion Maximus. When Maximus’s nerve breaks at a critical point, allowing the enemy leader Caratacus and his men to escape a trap, General Plautius orders the annihilation of the unit. Their choice: die or escape to become fugitives pursued by soldiers of their own ruthless army. Hiding from their former comrades, as well as the Britons, Cato’s small band of fugitives have only one chance to redeem themselves before they are hunted down like animals. Explicit descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2005, c2004.
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Suspense and thrillers, War stories
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43 AD. Centurion Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, arrive on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion…
force. In a series of bloody skirmishes, Macro and the desperately outnumbered Roman army must find and defeat the enemy before he grows strong enough to overwhelm them. When rumours of an assassination attempt coincide with the Emperor's arrival in Britain, the soldiers realise they are up against another force - one more ruthless than their acknowledged enemy. Sequel to "Under the eagle" (DC37658), followed by "When the eagle hunts" (DC39137). Some descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2002. (Eagle series ; 2)
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Historical fiction
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The story of Marcus Geladius, a soldier in Roman Britain of the fifth century. 1973.
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Short stories
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Four novellas, varied in style and subject, together with a translation of an early French romance to which the author…
can trace much of his own need to write. The title story concerns a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter. He is intrigued by the complicated erotic relationship between the elderly painter and the beautiful young women who share their lives with him. Some descriptions of sex. 1974.