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So wild a dream (Rendezvous. #1.)
By Winfred Blevins. 2010
Escaping his life in 1820's Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group…
of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier. Followed by "Beauty for ashes". Spur Award. 2010.Soul mountain: [Ling shan]
By Mabel Lee, Xingjian Gao. 2002
Staying on: a novel
By Paul Scott. 1977
Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife elect to stay on in one of India's hill-stations after the British have left…
in 1947. Life gradually begins to change. 1977 Booker Prize winner. 1977.Some of the kinder planets
By Tim Wynne-Jones. 1993
Collection of nine short stories takes the reader into an alternate universe of the mind. In "The Night of the…
Pomegranate," Harriet spends too much time outside looking at Mars instead of working on her solar system project. "The Hope Bakery" tells the tale of Sloane and his younger brother, Todd, and their strange trips into the woods. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1993.Snowbound
By Richard S Wheeler. 2010
After his 1847 court-martial, Colonel John Frémont, known as the Pathfinder, resigns from the army and embarks on an expedition…
to survey a proposed railway between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trapped in the Colorado mountains during winter, his team battles starvation and freezing temperatures. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel. c2010.Small island
By Andrea Levy. 2004
Returning to England after the war Gilbert Joseph is treated very differently now that he is no longer in an…
RAF uniform. Joined by his wife Hortense, he rekindles a friendship with Queenie who takes in Jamaican lodgers. Can their dreams of a better life in England overcome the prejudice they face? Descriptions of sex and strong language. Winner of the Orange Prize 2004 and Whitbread Novel Award winner 2004.Spilled water
By Sally Grindley. 2004
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is…
just eleven when sold by her Uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. Portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water' - a waste. Winner 2004 Smarties Book Prize Gold Award. Grades 3-6. 2004.Snakeskin shamisen (Mas Arai mystery. #3.)
By Naomi Hirahara. 2006
70-ish LA gardener and amateur sleuth Mas Arai leaves a party held for a friend early, but when the guest…
of honour turns up dead, Mas has to return to answer questions about anything suspicious he might have observed. A broken shamisen (a stringed instrument similar to a banjo) found at the crime scene indicates that the seeds of the murder were sown in Okinawa during WWII. Sequel to "Gasa-Gasa Girl" (DC31099). 2007 Edgar winner. c2006. (Mas Arai mysteries ; 3)Skybreaker (Airborn Ser.)
By Kenneth Oppel. 2005
16-year-old Matt Cruse is the only person who knows the coordinates of The Hyperion, a legendary ghost ship rumoured to…
be full of riches. Soon Matt and his sweetheart Kate are on a dangerous treasure hunt, along with pilot Hal and Nadira, a gypsy girl who claims to have the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped booty.. Sequel to "Airborn" (DC25448). Descriptions of violence. For Junior high readers. Winner of the 2006 Red Maple Award. 2005.Skellig
By David Almond. 1998
With an ailing infant, Michael’s family is sad hearted as they settle into their new home. In the ramshackle garage…
Michael discovers Skellig, a sickly, winged man. As the boy and his intellectual next-door friend, Mina, nurse Skellig back to health, the mysterious man introduces them to life’s magical side. Grades 5-8. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. 1998.Since Daisy Creek
By W. O Mitchell. 1984
Colin Dobbs, a salty-tongued, irreverent English professor is obsessed with acquiring the hide of the grizzly bear that mauled him.…
It is his deep disappointment in himself that has led him on this strange quest. Bestseller 1986. Runner-up for the 1986 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1984.Simple recipes: Stories
By Madeleine Thien. 2001
A collection of seven stories on the theme of family relationships. It examines the experience of alienation and the conflict…
between generations and cultures. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Some strong language. 2001.Six degrees of freedom
By Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler. 2017
Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend…
Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide. Winner of the French-language 2015 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2017. Uniform title: Six degrés de liberté.Silverwing
By Kenneth Oppel. 1997
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in…
ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. Prequel to "Sunwing" (DC19512). Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Winner of the 1998 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 1997.Silver city: a novel of the American West
By Jeff Guinn. 2017
Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the epic Indian battle at Adobe Walls, has journeyed to Mountain View in the Arizona…
Territory with one goal: to convince Gabrielle Tirrito that he's a changed man and win her back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped by enforcer Killer Boots, who is working on orders from crooked St. Louis businessman Rupert Douglass. Cash, once married to Douglass's troubled daughter, fled the city when she died of accidental overdose--and Douglass vowed he'd track Cash down and make him pay. Now McLendon, accompanied by Joe Saint and Major Mulkins, hits the trail in pursuit of Gabrielle and Killer Boots, hoping to make a trade before it's too late. Sequel to "Buffalo trail". Winner of the Spur 2018 best western traditional novel award. 2017.Silent we stood: a novel
By Henry Chappell. 2013
Weaves the tale of a small band of abolitionists working in secrecy within Dallas’s close-knit society. There’s Joseph Shaw, an…
undertaker and underground railroad veteran with a shameful secret; Ig Bodeker, a charismatic, melancholic preacher; Rachel Bodeker, a fierce abolitionist, Ig’s wife and Joseph Shaw’s lover; Rebekah, a freed slave who’ll sacrifice everything for the cause; Samuel Smith, a crypto-freedman whose love for Rebekah exacts a terrible cost; and, towering above them all, a near-mythical one-armed runaway who haunts area slavers and brings hope to those dreaming of freedom. c2013.Shooter
By Caroline Pignat. 2016
A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only nearby unlocked room: the…
boys' washroom. There's Alice: an introverted writer, trapped in the role of big sister to her older autistic brother, Noah; Isabelle: the popular, high-achieving, student council president, whose greatest performance is her everyday life; Hogan: an ex-football player with a troubled past and a hopeless future; Xander: that socially awkward guy hiding behind the camera, whose candid pictures of school life, especially those of Isabelle, have brought him more trouble than answers. When Isabelle gets a text that says NOT A DRILL!! Shooter in the school!, suddenly, the bathroom doesn't seem so safe anymore. Especially when they learn that one of them knows more about the shooter than they realized. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Award, the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award and the 2017 John Spray Mystery Award. 2016.Interweaves an account of the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America that carried a cargo of gold bullion and…
minted coins with the story of the shipwreck's discovery in 1988 by Tommy Thompson. Describes Thompson's feat of developing technology to locate and retrieve artifacts from a wooden-hulled ship in eight thousand feet of water. Winner of the 2000 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.Shavetail: a novel
By Thomas Cobb. 2008
Arizona Territory, 1871. When seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne arrives for duty, Corporal Brickner, a conniving old mule driver, takes advantage of…
the young "shavetail", a name applied to untrained mules and soldiers. Outranked but not outwitted, Ned faces scorpions and Indians in a battle for survival. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Spur Award. c2008.Shattered
By Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.