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The cellist of Sarajevo
By Steven Galloway. 2008
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a…
mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2009 Evergreen Award. 2008.The bully boys
By Eric Walters. 2000
While the War of 1812 rages, Tom Roberts, fourteen, is left behind to look after the family farm. That all…
changes when he stops some American soldiers from robbing the local store. His quick thinking and bravery catch the eye of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and lead to Tom joining the Bully Boys, FitzGibbon's unit. There Tom learns more about the fascination, and the horror, of war than he ever wanted to know. Junior high readers. 2000.The Blythes are quoted
By L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.The bridegroom: a Stone Creek novel (Stone Creek novel. #5)
By Linda Lael Miller. 2009
Lydia Fairmont will lose everything if she doesn't honour her betrothal to a heartless banker. Unless she marries someone else…
instead, whether it's a love match or not. Determined to honour his own decade-old promise to help Lydia, undercover agent Gideon Yarbro carries her off to Stone Creek, Arizona, and makes her his reluctant wife. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009. (Stone Creek novel)The Boleyn inheritance
By Philippa Gregory. 2006
The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick…
king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife. The stories of three young women, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Jane Boleyn are told against the backdrop of the most volatile court in Europe. 2006.The Black Canary
By Jane Louise Curry. 2005
James Parrett resents his musician parents' focused lifestyle and constant performing. While visiting London, he discovers a time portal that…
takes him to the year 1600, where he joins a group that sings and performs for Queen Elizabeth. James, now nicknamed the "Black Canary," discovers his love for music, but is also forced to decide whether he will remain in his new life or return to his home and family. Grades 5-8. 2005.The blackest bird: a novel of murder in nineteenth-century New York
By Joel Rose. 2007
New York, 1841. When Mary Rogers, a pretty clerk at a tobacco shop, is found brutally murdered in the Hudson…
River, High Constable Hays is charged with the search for her killer. A respected lawman known for creating a new interrogation technique called the third degree, Hays is starting to feel the full weight of his position, caught between public outrage and political red tape. High on his list of suspects is the eccentric poet Edgar Allan Poe, who freely admits that he was in love with the "cigar girl." Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.The birth house
By Ami McKay. 2006
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.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.Terre et cendres
By Atiq Rahimi, Sabrina Nouri. 2000
Court roman en langue nouvelle, ce texte vibrant raconte, par la voix d'un grand-père, le drame de l'Afghanistan au début…
des années 1980. "La beauté de la douleur subie et narrée."The Beothuk saga: a novel
By Wayne Grady, Bernard Assiniwi. 2000
A portrait of three periods in the history of the Beothuk, from the spirit quest of the legendary leader Anin…
in the early ninth century, to the defense of their territory against European explorers and conquerors in the early days of colonization, to the tragic end of the Beothuk as English settlers capture and destroy the tribe. Uniform title: Saga des Béothuks.The battle for Duncragglin
By Andrew H Vanderwal. 2009
Twelve-year-old Alex, whose parents disappeared on a trip to Scotland many years ago, is spending the summer there. He and…
three newfound friends want to discover the secret of a sealed cave along the coast. The secret is far more powerful than anything they could have imagined, as they're catapulted back to the late 13th century to find the Scottish rebel William Wallace fighting a guerrilla-style war against the British. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c2009.The assassin's song
By M. G Vassanji. 2007
Like his father before him, Karsan is designated the guardian of the Indian shrine of Nur Fazal, but he just…
wants to live an ordinary life. It's the 1960s, and, curious about the world beyond his Gujarati village, Karsan sends an application to Harvard and is astonished to be accepted. Revelling in his studies and America, he finds happiness as a professor and family man, but there is no escaping "perfect, terrible Karmic symmetry." Some descriptions of sex. 2007.Testament
By Nino Ricci. 2002
Set in a remote corner of the Roman Empire at a time of political unrest and spiritual uncertainty, Testament is…
the story of how one extraordinary man, a man of enormous charisma and passionate belief, alters forever the lives of those around him. It is told from four distinct points of view: Yihuda, a dedicated freedom fighter; Yeshua, a holy man; Yeshua's mother Miryam; and Miryam of Migdal, who travels with Yeshua through Galilee. 2002.Sweetness in the belly
By Camilla Gibb. 2005
White, English, and orphaned at eight, Lilly grows up in Morocco as a Muslim, moves to Harar, Ethiopia, for five…
years and settles in London after political upheaval makes her vulnerable. She agonizes over the uprootings that famine, corruption, and political instability caused in Ethiopia in the 1970s and '80s. Also painful is not knowing whether Aziz, her Ethiopian lover, is alive or dead, putting Lilly in a 17-year limbo between grief and desperate hope. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.Solo
By Rana Dasgupta. 2010
Ulrich is a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria, wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the…
world before he dies. He embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country's turbulent century - and through his own lifetime of lost love and failed chemistry - and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.Sister to the wolf (KCP fiction)
By Maxine Trottier. 2004
In Québec in the early 1700's, Cécile defies convention when she buys Lesharo, a young Pawnee slave boy. Sworn to…
protect her, Lesharo accompanies Cécile and her father on a perilous journey to the new fort at Détroit. Cécile hates life in the fort, where Lesahro is treated badly, and both yearn for freedom - until the terrible night when Cécile is forced to make a dreadful choice. Some violence. Grades 4-7. 2004.Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Richard Sharpe ; #4)
By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)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.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)