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Search of the moon king's daughter: a novel
By Linda Holeman. 2002
Emmaline's idyllic village life in 1830's Industrial England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera and…
the family is forced to move to a mill town. Her opiate-addicted mother sells her deaf bother Tommy into virtual slavery as a chimney sweep. Despite having no money, work, or prospects, Emmaline goes to London to save him. For junior and senior high readers. 2002.Shaken
By Eric Walters. 2010
Fifteen-year-old Joshua has travelled from Toronto to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in order to help with a charity mission. In confronting the…
poverty and injustice that surrounds him, Joshua struggles to find meaning in the cruelty of the world. And then devastation hits - and Joshua finds himself at the very centre of a catastrophic earthquake. Will he be able to save himself? And, if he does, how will he find the faith and hope he needs to go on? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2010.Shadows on a sword: the second book of the Crusades (The Crusades ; #2)
By Karleen Bradford. 1996
Theo, a passionate young knight, can't wait to embark on the Holy Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. Along with his friend…
Amalric, a fellow knight, and Emma, a servant girl, he is ready to fight. But for all their conviction, none of these young people is prepared for the realities of war - for its brutality, the ways it will divide them, and the life and death choices it offers. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "There will be wolves" (DC14007), followed by "Lionheart's scribe" (DC19721). 1996. (The Crusades ; 2)Seduction
By Catherine Gildiner. 2005
Inmate Kate Fitzgerald, a Freud expert, is offered parole by prison psychiatrist Gardonne if she can uncover what researcher Anders…
Konzak has found that will "make psychoanalysis obsolete". When key players - who were all last seen with Kate - begin turning up dead, she suspects she's being set up - who would believe a convict who murdered her husband? All she can hope is that following the threads of Konzak's research will keep her one step ahead of Gardonne, and lead her to the real killer. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2005.S.E.C.R.E.T. revealed: a novel (S.E.C.R.E.T. novel. #3.)
By L. Marie Adeline. 2014
The only thing that Cassie Robichaud has ever really wanted is Will Foret, the love of her life. But when…
Will discovers that Cassie is part of S.E.C.R.E.T., an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest fantasies, Will breaks it off. Heartbroken, Cassie dries her tears and devotes herself to helping the latest S.E.C.R.E.T. recruit, Solange Faraday. Cassie also reignites her relationship with bad-boy Jesse, even if he can never love her as deeply as Will did. The final book in the trilogy. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T shared". 2014.S.E.C.R.E.T. shared: a novel (S.E.C.R.E.T. novel. #2.)
By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Still wounded from a recent heartbreak, Cassie Robichaud throws herself into service with S.E.C.R.E.T., the mysterious organization that changed her…
life last year by bringing her deepest fantasies to life, one step at a time. Now it’s Cassie’s turn to guide the group’s newest candidate, Dauphine Mason, recruiting men to execute a new set of fantasies. While it gets Cassie’s mind off Will, the man she truly loves, it also gives her the chance to help watch S.E.C.R.E.T. work its magic on someone new. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T.". Bestseller. 2013.S.E.C.R.E.T
By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Cassie Robichaud's life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the…
rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. But when she discovers a notebook left behind by a mysterious woman at the café, Cassie's world is forever changed. The notebook's stunningly explicit confessions shock and fascinate Cassie, and eventually lead her to S∙E∙C∙R∙E∙T, an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most lurid fantasies. Includes sex and strong language. 2013.Sanctuary line
By Jane Urquhart. 2010
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Urquhart weaves elements from the nineteenth-century…
past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the members of one family. There are ancestral lighthouse-keepers, seasonal Mexican workers; the tragedy of a young woman's death during a tour of duty in Afghanistan; three very different but equally powerful love stories. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Ruined abbey: a mystery (Collins-Burke mystery series.)
By Anne Emery. 2015
It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. Father Brennan Burke is home in New York…
when news of his sister’s arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan’s cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the murdered cop’s partner and are caught in a tangle of buried family memories. 2015.Safe as houses
By Eric Walters. 2007
October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Torontonian Elizabeth is a typical grade 8 girl, with a crush on a boy in her…
class and a baby-sitting job. Every day, she walks Suzie and her older brother David home after school, and then stays there until their mother gets home. On this particular evening, Hurricane Hazel roars down on Toronto, bringing torrential rains and flooding - and David and Suzie's house is on a street that will be practically wiped out. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 2008 Red Maple Award. 2007.Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine mosaic. #1.)
By Guy Gavriel Kay. 1998
Valerius, emperor of Sarantium and its surrounding empire, intends to build the largest, most extravagant holy sanctuary ever seen. But…
while he is ensuring this is done he must also keep the empire's provinces subdued and police the savage rites that continue to be practised in the dark forests throughout the land. Caius Crispus, a master mosaicist from the west, makes his way towards the city of Sarantium in answer to a summons meant for his mentor, and hopes that he will be able to survive the perils of his journey and the consequences of his arrival in the city. 1998.Rousseau's garden: A Novel
By Ann Charney. 2001
Claire has come to France to find out what happened to her mother, Dolly, during her last stay in Paris.…
Dolly was a promising sculptor and ardent admirer of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but she suffered a mysterious decline following her return home. Now, as severe panic attacks are forcing Claire to abandon her own work as a photographer, she decides to retrace her mother's footsteps in Paris and in the nearby countryside to look for an answer. 2001.Roid rage
By Lesley Choyce. 1999
When Craig makes first string on his high school football team, he is surprised to learn that his best friend…
Ray has also made the team and has become the best player on the field. Craig soon discovers Ray's secret, and begins taking steroids too. However, he begins to experience side effects, including periods of rage. Now he must come clean with his coach and family and convince Ray his health is in danger. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Run
By Eric Walters. 2003
Winston is suspended from school and keeps running away from home, so his mother sends him to stay with his…
father, a well-known newspaper reporter who's covering the story of Terry Fox and his friend Doug Alward. Winston spends time with Terry and Doug, and their determination to achieve what seems like an impossible goal makes a big impression on him. But can Winston learn enough to deal with an article of his father's that characterizes Terry and Doug in an unflattering way, and with his own problems? Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 5-8. 2003.Rogues' wedding
By Terry Griggs. 2002
On his wedding night in 1898, Griffith Smolders, unnerved by the conjugal duties that await him, jumps out the window…
and flees into the night, leaving behind his bride. When the immodest and beautiful Avice realizes she has been abandoned, she swears she will exact a suitably nasty revenge. 2002.Rocket blues
By David Skuy. 2014
Being cut from the Huskies, the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years, Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket")…
reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence. Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life. Grades 4-7. 2014.Robbiestime
By Donald Percy Dickinson. 2000
It is 1958 in the tourist outpost of Wasagam, Saskatchewan. Robbie Hendershot, the eleven-year-old son of a World War II…
rear gunner and his British war bride, is embarking on a summer that will change his outlook on life forever. When his British granddad takes his mother and younger brother back to England, he is left behind to uncover the mysteries of family, religion, friendship and the price of war. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. c2000.River of the brokenhearted
By David Adams Richards. 2003
Janie McCleary and her husband George King run one of the first movie theatres in the Maritimes. Their marriage is…
deemed scandalous because she is Irish Catholic while he is Anglican. After George dies in the 1920's, Janie is ostracized by the other people in her town and must survive in a man's world. 2003.River thieves
By Michael Crummey. 2001
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British naval officer David Buchan arrives in Newfoundland to establish contact with the…
Beothuk Indians, who are facing extinction. Approaching the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice, Buchan learns of their allegiances, deep grudges and family tensions. As his peace missions go awry, and a murder occurs, the delicate web of allegiance, obligation and debt that holds together the Peyton household and the community slowly begins to unravel. Strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Rex Zero, the king of nothing (Rex Zero Ser.)
By Tim Wynne-Jones. 2007
Rex and his friends begin grade six against the backdrop of the 1962 Ban the Bomb protests on Parliament Hill,…
but other problems capture Rex's attention - a bully for a teacher, his father's sadness over Remembrance Day, not to mention dad's secret stash of photographs and letters - written in German. Then Rex finds a lost address book whose owner is Natasha, the victim of an abusive husband. Though he wishes he had heroic powers to help her, Rex finds all the answers in his own ingenuity and with the help of good friends. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.