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Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
By Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Strange things done
By Elle Wild. 2016
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.Stranger in Thunder Basin
By John D Nesbitt. 2009
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.Street of riches
By Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Strawberry girl
By Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.Solar bones: a novel
By Mike McCormack. 2017
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing,…
relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being," surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. 2017.Stone soup: an old tale
By Marcia Brown. 1947
When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So…
the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones. Grades K-3. Caldecott Honor Book. 1947.Still (3-day Bks.)
By B. P Nichol. 1983
Consists of two strands of text: the spare dialogue of a couple exploring their broken relationship and the lyrical evocation…
of a perfect landscape and a perfect house. Strong language. Winner of the 1982 Pulp Press Annual Three-day Novel-writing Contest. 1983.Stitches
By Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.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.