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At 18, Romain leaves his wealthy family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land. Éléna…
flees a house of mayhem, taking refuge in a monastery and later in the rustic village of Rivière-aux-Oies. One day, while walking in the woods, Éléna hears the melody of a clarinet and comes across Romain, who calls himself Starling and whom Éléna later renames Douglas, for the strongest and most spectacular of trees. Later a child named Rose is born. But time brings great change; years later, Douglas has returned to the forest, Rose is in the village under the care of others, and Éléna is gone. 2013. Uniform title: Carnets de Douglas.
Margot Dalziel, the well-known journalist, was due in London on Friday. On Saturday she was expected at her rural cottage.…
By Sunday it had become apparent that something had gone amiss and Margot had vanished. Her country neighbours are soon swept into the web of mystery and suspicion. A murder becomes a catalyst to people already taut with fear - although the villagers have made up their collective mind as to who is responsible. 1983.
August 2011. Terrorist operative Amer Al Zaroor masterminds and executes the theft of a Pakistani military weapon: a 200-pound nuclear…
warhead, capable of causing destruction on a mass scale. A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world, in which Osama Bin Laden pledges to attack a major US city on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Includes violence. 2011.
Swacky Ross's ferret went into a rabbit warren and never came out again, and nor did Swacky. At least, not…
for a while. What he found down there in the dark would change the lives of the people on Cnocdruidh, outdo the Loch Ness Monster, amaze the outside world and solve everybody's problems. If they were what they seemed to be. For junior high readers. 1990.
Mori tells how she fled Japan for America when she was twenty, escaping cruel treatment by her father and harsh…
memories of the place where her mother committed suicide. Thirteen years later, she returns to explore her homeland, reunites with relatives, and comes to terms with her tortured relationship with her father. 1995.
Historical saga set in ancient Britain spans three generations and tells the story of Caradoc, son of a Celtic king,…
who sets out to unite the people of the Raven and lead them against Imperial Rome. It also tells of his gentle wife who, left alone for long periods of time, seeks solace in the arms of Caradoc's best friend, Cinnamus. 1978.
In “Equatorial,” set in the exotic Galapagos, an affluent American wife experiences disorienting assaults upon her sense of who her…
charismatic husband really is, and what his plans may be for her. In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is thrilled when her favourite teacher asks her to house-sit, but when an intruder forces his way into the house, the fate of more than one life is changed forever. And in the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from the surrounding neighbourhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they? 2016. Uniform title: Short stories.
Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve…
as a chronicle of Frye's life, as we watch him teach classes, plan his career, record his dreams, register his reactions to the people he meets, and reflect on books, music, movies, and religious and political issues. Some strong language. 2001.
Valdes-Rodriguez opens up the lives of six upwardly mobile Latina friends in their late twenties. These women, who come from…
widely varied backgrounds, meet at Boston University and, after graduating, reunite every six months to share their stories. Facing the complications and pressures of everyday lives, the Social Club offers a chance to meet regularly, dish, dine, and help each other over the bumpy course of life and love. Followed by "Dirty girls on top". 2003.
Civilization teeters on the edge as Nazi Germany stands at the height of its power. The intrigue of Cairo and…
fiery drama of Rommel's desert war in Africa come vibrantly to life in this historical adventure and romance novel as alliances shift, loyalties deceive, espionage thrives, and danger lies in the dark corners of Cairo and the desert night. 2001.
The 12th century French sleuth, Catherine LeVendeur, travels to Germany to save her sister who is facing a charge of…
murder. After marrying a lord who was a winegrower, the sister is said to have killed him by poison, or worse, by witchcraft. Sequel to "Cursed in the blood", followed by "To wear the white cloak". 2003.
Christian Montcalm was a practical, if destitute, scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple…
would take care of that sticky wicket. Annelise Kempton desired nothing more than to come between this despicable rogue and the fortune (and virtue) of her young charge. All that stood in her way was a man whose rakish charm could tempt a saint to sin, or consign a confirmed spinster to sleepless nights of longing. Explicit descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2006.
The troubled journey of a prairie novelist from the social cruelty of her village to a modicum of personal serenity…
and professional success. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Fiction.
The discovery of insulin in 1922 was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the century and one of…
the most controversial. Bliss examines the research of, and the rivalry within, the team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod.
In 1934, Canada hit the international headlines when Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical baby girls in northern Ontario.…
Berton examines the exploitation of the famous five by the media, commercial interests and government which created a rift in the Dionne family. 1977. (Reissue)
A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of…
poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. 2007.
Primo Levi spent over a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is an attempt to make some sense…
of his experiences, and to try to understand how a nation could set up a system to butcher millions of people. Eventually he gave up the struggle to come to terms with it and committed suicide in 1987. 1988.
In August 1998, a doctor named Nancy Olivieri, working with young people who suffered from a rare blood disorder, discovered…
serious problems with an experimental drug manufactured by Apotex. Though her research contract required her to remain silent, she decided she had no choice but to warn the patients involved in the trials, while Apotex reacted by cancelling her research and slamming her reputation. The Olivieri affair spawned two inquiries and multiple lawsuits, which revealed the weaknesses in medical research as well as a story of scientific rivalry and revenge. Some strong language. 2005.