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The story is set against the background of the political and military events that ended the reign of Napoléon III…
and the Second Empire in 1870, in particular the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune. 1972.
Something is horribly wrong at Dinah's new school - the children are strangely neat and well behaved. Why is this…
and why does Dinah find herself conforming? What is the secret of the Headmaster's control? Dinah is determined to unravel the mystery of the sinister Headmaster. Followed by "The Prime Minister's brain". Grades 3-6. 1984.
A man and a woman arrive at a quiet country house to spend the week-end; he is a top KGB…
agent and she is one of the British intelligence's key operatives. Their professional relationship soon becomes charged with strange emotions. Followed by "The avenue of the dead" (DC32936). 1980. (Davina Graham series ; 1)
An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to…
die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it. 1979.
An ancient horror is free once more, developed into a weapon of incalculable strength and malignancy, ready to wreak havoc…
on an unsuspecting world. To stop its spread, Commander Grayson Pierce of Sigma Force must decipher a deadly mystery, one that traces back to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution. With each new discovery, the menace they hunt is changing, growing, spreading-- adapting and surviving every attempt to stop it from reconquering a world it once ruled. Running out of time and options, Commander Grayson Pierce will be forced to make an impossible choice. To eradicate this extinction-level threat and expose those involved, he will have to join forces with Sigma’s greatest enemy--the newly resurrected Guild--even it if means sacrificing one of his own. Sequel to "The seventh plague". Bestseller. 2017.
A stranger arrives in the village of Viscos with the devil, eleven gold bars, and a proposition. He offers to…
give the townspeople the fortune if they commit murder. Young Chantal Prym and others struggle with the moral dilemma. Bestseller. 2006, c2000.
As flights were temporarily grounded following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the town of Gander found itself hosting over 6,000 stranded…
commercial airline passengers. The people of Gander put up the unexpected guests in schools, community centres and even their own homes. A heartwarming story of strangers being greeted with exemplary kindness. 2002.
In 1914, Bertha Ryan arrives in a small Newfoundland town to work for the Corrigan family. Raped by her employer's…
son, Bertha becomes pregnant and eventually ends up with the Corrigan property. A saga of three generations of women. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.
While in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, the British author kept a journal which records the routines…
of camp life and the variety of ways prisoners coped with their new existence. 1981.
Using court records, newspaper accounts and other sources, the author studies 92 "repeat" offenders of late Victorian Halifax, including thieves,…
prostitutes, drunks and brawlers. She then examines how the middle class do-gooders tried to solve "the problems of the disrespectable lower classes". 1992.
This collection of 12 short stories is set in Sarawak, Malaysia during the 1960s with the central character of Dan…
Collins, an engineer on loan from the American government. All stories provide sensitive portrayals of human experiences that transcend cultural differences. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.
Traditional Chinese philosophy ascribes its source to this work of divination which dates from 3000 to 1200 B.C. The I…
Ching consists of oracles based on sixty-four abstract figures, each composed of six lines. According to this philosophy, one can keep in touch with currents of change in the universe by interpreting the lines. 1998.
A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the…
valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in Canada. Inspired by Arabian Tales of One Thousand and One Nights, he tells a story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is a Hakawati, a storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured for his sexuality, of leaving home, of war, of his fated meeting with his lover. Meanwhile Death himself, in his dark cloak, shares the house with the two men, eavesdropping on their secrets as he awaits their final undoing. 2017.
1965. After Emaline, 11, is crippled in a tractor accident, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from…
their Saskatchewan farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local mental hospital to help with the farm work, but the neighbours jeer and complain about the crazy man. Emaline sees Angus' kindness and strength, but it is only when he performs the ultimate act of heroism that others in the town finally recognize his worth as a human being. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Golden Oak Award. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2005.
