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In this sequel to "Flambards", Christina and Will take refuge with their aunt after deciding to marry. Will dreams of…
being an experimental pilot and, despite the danger involved, Christina is determined that he should fulfill his dream. Junior High. 1998.
This novel measures the agricultural seasons against the human cycle of birth, marriage and death. Describes the harsh struggles of…
a farming community to look after their land and control their sometimes wayward society. 1980. Uniform title: Terre.
Benjie, the one they call "mouse", is threatened by the toughest boy in the school, Marv Hammerman. Benjie and friend…
Ezzie have often worked out solutions to problems such as what to do when attacked by an octopus, or when caught in quicksand. But how are they to deal with the biggest emergency of all? For junior high readers. 1976.
As a talented, but arrogant, student of wizardry, Sparrowhawk summons an evil spirit who threatens the entire world of Earthsea.…
Contains "Wizard of Earthsea", "Tombs of Atuan", and "Farthest shore". For Junior High readers. 1979. (Earthsea)
Victoria, British Columbia. 1869. In a forest a mutilated body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American 'alienist' whose methods include…
phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical 'magnetation'. Chad Hobbes, arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. Could the murderer be a Tsimshian medicine man, Wiladzap, who is immediately arrested? But everyone who has known Dr. McCrory - respectable or not - has something to hide. c2013.
Lady Cordelia and her brother, the Earl of Hunstanton, had sailed with Captain Mark Stanton to Valetta where the Earl…
was to become a Knight of the Order of St John. Afterwards he wanted his sister to enter the Convent of St Romanica. As Cordelia remembered and felt again the strange wonder that Stanton's kisses had aroused in her, she realised she could never contemplate becoming a nun. 1994.
In "The disinformer," a retired spy, embittered by the changing face of espionage, sets a trap for a group of…
Arab terrorists, only to find himself caught up in his own web of deceit. In "A nose by any other name," Thamar had received everything from her wonderful parents, including her enormous nose. But, even when she rebels against her heritage she finds that no surgeon's knife can cut deep enough to remove her parents' influence. 1989.
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world…
in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.
In 1985, a party of Canadian and Chinese scientists embarked on a five-year treasure hunt in China's Gobi Desert, the…
badlands of Alberta and Canada's Arctic. They hoped to answer questions about dinosaur behaviour, migration, and evolution. 1993.
Newspaper editor Will Shafer is sent to the small town of Long Creek to cover the kidnapping of a wealthy…
resident's young son. Will's friend Fran Spicer had been assigned the story but a car accident in Long Creek put him in the hospital. Though the boy is soon found with a hermit, Will is troubled by inconsistencies in the case and by the close-mouthed police force, and he takes a closer look at Fran's "accident." Strong language and violence. 1993.
Armies of men with heavy machinery have tried to open the door in the Dragon's Throat, but no one has…
succeeded. Now Al-Dallam, president of Nepur, has asked Dr. Jake Cooper to try. There seems to be a curse on the door, which is said to hide a great treasure, but Dr. Cooper has faith that he can open the door and survive. Prequel to "Escape from the island of Aquarius". Grades 5-8. 1985. (The Cooper Kids Adventure series ; 1)
The Dollmage is the wise woman of Seekvalley, and as her powers weaken, she must choose her successor. She predicts…
the birthday of her chosen one, but when two girls are born, she chooses Renoa. As the other girl, Annakey, grows, she realizes that she too has magic, and the ability to save her people. Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 2001.
Robbie Dunsmuir, exiled from Scotland, becomes an indentured labourer in the Nanaimo coalfields. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the…
top when he discovers a coal deposit on Vancouver Island. Some strong language. Followed by "The Dunsmuirs : a promise kept". c1991.
Meet an unusual group of young heroes - from a computer genius and a budding entrepreneur to a boy faced…
with a summer of hard labour after a shoplifting incident goes awry. The kids in these stories draw on their own considerable inner resources to survive and adapt, no matter how rocky their journeys may be. Grades 5-8. 1999.
A trilogy of three controversial plays, 'Sticks & Stones', 'St. Nicholas Hotel' and 'Handcuffs', telling the story of a generation…
of Irish settlers to Canada. A secret society organizes their massacre at the hands of more than thirty vigilante killers. Based on the true story of the Donnellys of Lucan, Ontario, in 1844. 1983.
Forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million from a Canadian…
land swindle. She follows the money from Vancouver to Las Vegas, to the Costa Rican accounts of the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns The River, a poker web site, and uncovers an illegal online gambling ring. Meanwhile, Jackie Leung, an old target of Ava's, has made it rich, wants revenge, and is going after Ava to get it. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and some strong language. 2011. (Ava Lee novel ; 2)
The authors answer more than 130 frequently asked questions about diabetes. Chapters address general information, facts about Type I and…
Type II diabetes, concerns of family and friends, and weight loss. Also includes results of the 1993 American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Study. 1994.
Francisca "Paquita" Aparicio and Maria de las Nieves Moran are sequestered in a convent to protect Paquita from her admirer,…
a revolutionary called El Anticristo. When he takes power, Paquita becomes his first lady, while Maria de las Nieves falls in love with Jose Marti, the nineteenth-century writer and martyred leader of the Cuban struggle for independence. Years later, Maria de las Nieves sails to New York with her daughter in tow, still silent over who the girl's father is and what really happened between her and Marti. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language, descriptions of sex. 2004.
Collection of macabre tales by the first master of supernatural terror who wrote during the early 1900s. Lovecraft created this…
new form of literature which is neither fantasy nor science fiction, but that combines elements of both.