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The bishop's man
By Linden MacIntyre. 2009
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist, for at his bishop's bidding he drives out priests who molest children to…
discreet clinics or far-off parishes. When MacAskill is sent to a rural parish in his native Cape Breton, he encounters a troubled young man who appears to be the victim of a notorious priest. MacAskill, struggling with his own demons, is determined to help this man, regardless of the consequences for the church. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2009.The Aspern papers
By Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Mordecai Richler. 1959
The architects are here
By Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.The awkward age
By Henry James. 1987
Nineteen-year-old Nanda Brookenham is about to be introduced to London society by her forty-year-old mother. Nanda soon finds herself in…
love with thirty-four-year-old Vanderbank, who happens to be Mrs. Brook's lover. She is further caught between her respect for maintaining the ideals of her elders and her desire to get away from the confines of society, most of all from its restrictions on women. 1987.The attack on the mill and other stories (The World's classics)
By Douglas Parmee, Émile Zola. 1984
Sweetland: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Sylvia's lovers (The World's classics)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Andrew Sanders. 1982
In a rough whaling-port in Yorkshire, Sylvia grows from a wilful, imaginative girl into an alert woman who has been…
matured through suffering. 1982 (Text follows the one-volume fourth edition, published in December 1863)Strong hollow: a novel
By Linda Little. 2001
After his drunken father's death, Jackson, alone in his big brawling family, tries to earn a living as a bootlegger.…
One summer he meets Ian, a fiddler, and for a few weeks he grasps the joy he has craved all his life. In the terrible wake of their affair, Jackson discovers that hollowness can be a source of power. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. 2001.Sylvanus Now
By Donna Morrissey. 2005
Sylvanus Now, a young Newfoundland fisherman of great charm and strength, wants to woo Adelaide, but she longs to escape…
the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community. But her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Bestseller. 2005.Seeing red
By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Sea of tranquility: a novel
By Lesley Choyce. 2003
For Sylvie, Ragged Island is the only world she has ever known, and she plans to live out her years…
there. When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down the ferry service to the island, the residents see their world beginning to disappear. Strong language. 2003.Sketches by Boz (Penguin classics)
By Charles Dickens, Dennis Walder. 1995
Dickens' first book, published when he was a twenty-four-year-old reporter at the House of Commons, contains a rich mixture of…
reportage, observation, fancy, and fiction centred on the great metropolis of London in the 19th century. 1995.Scotch River
By Linda Little. 2006
Cass Hutt, bull rider, has lost his rodeo partner, severing Cass's only ties to his world. With nothing and no…
one to hold him, Cass is led back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2006.Sa Majesté des Mouches (Folio ; 1480)
By William Golding, Lola Tranec. 1956
" Une bande de garçons de six à douze ans se trouve jetée par un naufrage sur une île déserte…
montagneuse, où poussent des arbres tropicaux et gîtent des animaux sauvages. L'aventure apparaît d'abord aux enfants comme de merveilleuses vacances. On peut se nourrir de fruits, se baigner, jouer à Robinson. Mais il faut s'organiser. Suivant les meilleures traditions des collèges anglais, on élit un chef. C'est Ralph, qui s'entoure de Porcinet, l'intellectuel un peu ridicule, et de Simon. Mais bientôt un rival de Ralph se porte à la tête d'une bande rivale, et la bagarre entre les deux bandes devient rapidement si grave que Simon et Porcinet sont tués. Ralph échappe de justesse, sauvé par l'arrivée des adultes. Ce roman remarquable a un sens allégorique qu'il n'est pas difficile de comprendre : c'est l'aventure des sociétés humaines qui est tragiquement mise en scène par les enfants. Mais l'ouvre vaut avant tout par la description de leur comportement et par l'atmosphère de joie, de mystère et d'effroi qui la baigne. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Lord of the flies.Saints of Big Harbour
By Lynn Coady. 2002
Guy Boucher is a fatherless Acadian teenager, dominated by his alcoholic uncle, and also bullied at school and on the…
hockey rink. All he wants is to use his uncle's truck to attract a girlfriend, but when a courtship goes sour, Guy us caught up in violence and rumour fuelled by malice, booze and ennui. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 2002.Rum River: stories
By Raymond Joseph Fraser. 1997
A collection of eight stories primarily linked by the appearance of Walt Macbride, writer, philanderer, drunk, and captain of the…
ship Black North, and the appearance of the fictitious community of Bannonbridge, New Brunswick. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 1997.Rip Van Winkle and the legend of Sleepy Hollow
By Washington Irving. 1993
Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world;…
and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman. 1993.Rebecca (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (domaine Etranger) Ser. #Vol. 6009179)
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1993
Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1992
Rebecca, the glamorous mistress of a great English estate, died eight months before Maxim de Winter brought a young and…
frightened second wife to live there. Mystery, intrigue, and violence eventually reveal the circumstances surrounding Rebecca's death. 1992.