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The deep: a novella
By Mary Swan. 2002
In France, 1918, identical twin sisters arrive to do war work. The journey there profoundly affects their relationship with each…
other. While they are exposed to the horror and confusion of the First World War, older tragic memories interweave themselves with this new reality. 2002.The delicate storm (John Cardinal series. #2.)
By Giles Blunt. 2003
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective…
John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked. Some strong language. Sequel to "Forty words for sorrow", followed by "Blackfly season". 2003.The dead-house (Alexandra Cooper mystery.)
By Linda A Fairstein. 2001
New York D.A. Alexandra Cooper, last seen in “Cold Hit”, investigates the death of an anthropology professor being stalked by…
her ex-husband. New suspects emerge as Alex learns more about the woman’s colleagues and her interest in the ruins of a former island prison. Violence and strong language. 2001.The crazy man
By Pamela Paige Porter. 2005
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.The cranefly orchid murders (Martha's Vineyard mysteries. #2.)
By Cynthia Riggs. 2006
Searching the woods for an endangered plant, feisty ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull is rewarded with the discovery of a little nest…
of cranefly orchids--and a body. Sequel to "Deadly nightshade", followed by "The cemetery yew". 2006.The chocolate box
By Leslie Elizabeth Watts. 1991
Edna Heathcott has had a difficult day. Finding the body on the stairs was bad enough, but now Detective Owl…
suspects her of being involved in the murder. And her boss, art dealer Gerald Fineberg has disappeared. Edna knows that she is the only one who can get to the bottom of this. c1991.The color of blood (M&S paperbacks)
By Brian Moore. 1987
In an Eastern European country, Cardinal Stephen Bem maintains a perilous balance between a totalitarian regime and a fanatical minority…
of church leaders. Short-listed for the 1987 Booker Prize. Strong language. Bestseller 1987. c1987.The comet's curse: a Galahad book (Galahad. #1.)
By Dom Testa. 2009
After a comet's tail delivers a virus that decimates Earth's adult population, 251 teens blast off on the Galahad to…
colonize another planet. But soon they discover a saboteur is on board, and they race to uncover the culprit's identity. Followed by "The Web of Titan". Winner of the EVVY Award for Best Young Adult Book. For senior high and older readers. 2005.The dark room
By Minette Walters. 1995
British photographer Jinx Kingsley is in trouble. She awakens in a clinic to the news that she tried to kill…
herself twice after her fiance left her for her best friend, Meg. Although she has amnesia, Jinx is certain she would not have done this. Now she learns that she is suspected of murder. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1995.The collected works of Billy the Kid (Vintage International)
By Michael Ondaatje. 2009
William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve, and by the time he was…
twenty-one he had slain nineteen more. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels and his own imagination, Ondaatje imagines Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880s New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. A synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth. Winner of the 1970 Governor General's Award for Poetry. 2009.The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
By Denise Chong. 1994
Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by…
the concubine he bought in 1924. In Canada, they stinted and sacrificed to support his family in China. Chong tells of her grandparents and parents, and the visits she made to China to try to unite the strands of her family's past. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1994.The dark and other love stories
By Deborah Willis. 2015
The characters in these thirteen stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house…
is haunted. A drug dealer’s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenage girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humour, these subtle, complex stories—about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter—show how love ties us to one another and to the world. Winner of the 2018 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. 2015.The chocolate book bandit: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #13)
By JoAnna Carl. 2013
Lee McKinney Woodyard, owner of Warner Pier's famous chocolate shop, is considering joining the library board. To help her decide,…
she checks out the board's monthly meeting . . . but someone has placed murder on the agenda. c2013.The chocolate moose motive: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic Mystery Ser. #12)
By JoAnna Carl. 2012
Lee’s newest hire at Tenhuis Chocolates is making tongues wag, because Forsythia “Sissy” Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier’s…
only remaining resident hippie, and lives out at the Moose Lodge - once an informal commune in the forest east of town. The previous winter, Sissy’s husband, Buzz, was found shot to death, and local talk named Sissy the number one suspect, even though her alibi was airtight. Then the chief gossip is found dead, with Sissy on the scene. Was she lured there? Or is she the killer? Includes strong language. 2012.The chocolate castle clue: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #11)
By JoAnna Carl. 2011
Lee McKinney Woodyard discovers a dusty trophy inside TenHuis Chocolade that belongs to her aunt Nettie and her old high…
school singing group, the Pier-O-Ettes. It's a trophy that brings back terrible memories of an unsolved murder years ago, but before Lee takes aim at the past, someone is murdered. Lee needs to keep her eyes on the prize, hoping the trophy is a clue to finding the killer - before she's a target herself. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2011.The chocolate pirate plot: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #10)
By JoAnna Carl. 2011
Ever since ‘Young Blackbeard’ became a hit movie, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. When…
Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're stunned when a mischievous band of pirates hops on board. Lee's is the first boat boarded that summer, and the town couldn't be more amused by the mysterious buccaneers, but when a body washes up on shore, the pirates' antics stop being so entertaining. Includes violence and strong language. 2011.The chocolate cupid killings: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic Mystery Ser. #9)
By JoAnna Carl. 2009
TenHuis Chocolade has chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day, but Lee is getting no love from Private Detective Derrick Valentine. He's…
looking for their employee - a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been harbouring for an underground railroad-type organization that aids abused women – so they tell him nothing. Then Valentine meets his end, Aunt Nettie becomes a suspect, and Lee has to find a way to free Nettie of guilt without exposing the innocent - and find a killer. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2009.The coyote tracker: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #5)
By Larry D Sweazy. 2012
After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot,…
in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. Winner of the 2013 Spur Award for Best original mass market paperback. 2012.The dark frigate
By Charles Boardman Hawes. 1971
The English frigate on which Philip Marsham is training rescues 12 men from a sinking ship. Within three days, the…
rescued men have murdered the captain, seized the ship and sailed for the Caribbean in hopes of plunder and booty. Some violence. 1924 Newbery Award winner. Grades 5-8. 1971.The citadel of the Autarch (Book of the new Sun. #4.)
By Gene Wolfe. 1983
Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator…
and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse. Sequel to "The sword of the Lictor". 1983.