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By Vincent Lam. 2012
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon – and a bon vivant, compulsive gambler,…
and incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot business opportunities, but ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him. Percy finds happiness with Jacqueline, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. But Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. c2012.By Daniel Silva. 2014
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon learns his friend, art dealer Julian Isherwood, has stumbled upon a murder scene…
in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. To save him, Gabriel must find the real killer and the most famous missing painting in the world. Bestseller. Sequel to "The English girl", followed by "The English spy". 2014.By Greg Hollingshead. 1998
Tim Wakelin, a recently widowed writer, heads to Canadian Shield country in search of a story about a healer named…
Caroline Troyer. When he enters her world, the landmarks of his own world disappear as their lives become intertwined. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c1998.By John George Moss. 2016
Allison Briscoe is your average fifteen-year-old--until someone tries to kill her. Shot in the head, her doctors and family think…
she is in a coma, but in fact, though she cannot move, she can think, hear, and dream. Each night, Allison lives vicariously through her pioneer ancestors, entering the world of Rebecca Haun, a fifteen-year-old rebel who lived in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. To prove a friend innocent of murder, Rebecca betrays her Mennonite beliefs and joins the Women's Brigade with George Washington's rag-tag army at Valley Forge. And each day, Allison struggles to find a way to show her family that she is awake--a goal that becomes increasingly desperate when she realizes that whoever shot her has come back to finish the job. For junior and senior high students. 2016.By Philippa Dowding. 2010
What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle, and what if he just happened to be in terrible…
danger? Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle named Gargoth of Tallus who lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him, Ambergine, his greatest friend. What Katherine and Gargoth don't know is that Ambergine is searching for Gargoth too - but so is his greatest enemy. Sequel to "The Gargoyle in My Yard". Grades 5-8. 2010.By Rosella M Leslie. 2006
In an isolated cabin on the Sunshine Coast, two eccentric sisters find themselves taking in an abandoned baby. Gentle Florrie…
welcomes baby Jen, but wily Mag finds it much harder to accept Jen into her life. Jen grows up torn between the rural lifestyle she loves and her quest for acceptance from her classmates in the nearby town of Sechelt. 2006.By Bill Gaston. 2000
Bob Loose Bonaduce is a hockey player who never quite made it to the big time. Now he's decided to…
retire and return to his home province of New Brunswick. Once there, he lies his way into graduate school and attempts to get close to the son he abandoned twenty years earlier. At the same time he has to deal with the fact that he is stricken with multiple sclerosis and may eventually lose control over the body that has taken him so far in life. Some strong language.By Sheldon Currie. 1995
Margaret is the grand-daughter, daughter, sister, wife, and widow of Cape Breton miners. She reflects on life in Glace Bay,…
on her marriage to Neil, and on the true price of coal. Strong language. 1995.By Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Constance Brissenden. 2005
When Tyler's cousin Robert arrives for the annual First Nations gathering, wearing a cowboy hat and a big smile, eager…
for his daily run, it's hard for Tyler to believe his favourite cousin is ill. At 21, Robert has HIV, but by speaking out he hopes he can encourage an awareness of AIDS among the First Nations community. Grades 4-7. 2005.By David Homel, Martine Desjardins, Fred A Reed. 2018
Louis-Dollard Delorme, his miserly wife Estelle, and his three spinster sisters revere money so much that they have converted their…
residence's "green chamber" into a place of worship and have elevated domestic penny-pinching to an art form. As for the family's heir, Vincent, they intend for him to make a highly profitable marriage - a reasonable prospect, until the day when the house opens its doors to Penny Sterling, a young woman whose means equal only her curiosity. 2018. Uniform title: Chambre verte.By Arlene F Marks. 2016
Earth Intelligence and Space Installation Security each think Drew Townsend is working for them. They're wrong. Sent undercover to set…
up a covert intelligence operation on Earth's remotest space station, Drew Townsend finds himself managing a crew of brilliant mavericks, making friends with the most feared warriors in the galaxy, and feeling more at home in the controlled insanity of Daisy Hub than he ever did on Earth. Then he learns the truth about his mission there, and it's time to choose. In the coming interplanetary conflict, which side will Daisy Hub be on? Followed by "The otherness factor". 2016.By Michael Bédard. 2012
Teenaged O – never call her Ophelia – is about to spend the summer with her aunt Emily, a poet…
and the owner of an antiquarian book store, The Green Man. A proud, independent woman, Emily’s been made frail by a heart attack, and O will be a help to her. Just how crucial that help will be unfolds as O first tackles Emily’s badly neglected home, then the chaotic shop. But soon she discovers that there are mysteries and long-buried dark forces that she cannot sweep away. For senior high readers. 2012.By Becky Citra, Kathryn Cole. 2016
Twelve-year-old Will Poppy has always been fascinated by writing, but when his mother dies and he has to live with…
his crabby aunt, he finds himself unable to write a word. When he is sent a mysterious package that includes an old picture of his grandparents and a piece of cloth with the words "The Griffin of Darkwood" on it, his aunt takes him to a run-down castle with servants who are up to no good. Now Will must find his way in this new world, and discover the magic all over again. Grades 3-6. 2016.By Robert Rotenberg. 2011
The sequel to "Old City Hall" finds Toronto Detective Ari Greene investigating the murder of an heir to a Canadian…
food conglomerate. Although the victim's ex-wife swears to her lawyers that she's innocent, evidence to the contrary quickly mounts. Followed by "Stray bullets". 2011.By Marion Crook. 1984
Susan visits Mayne Island where she is caught up in the islanders' hostilities toward houseboaters. The discovery of the body…
of a dead woman involves Susan and the RCMP with a band of drug traffickers. 1984.By Margie Rutledge. 1999
To solve their overflowing laundry crisis, the Lawrence family buys large baskets, from a mysterious shop, to put it all…
in. But are the baskets the end of their problems or just the beginning? Abigail, Jacob and Ernest love magic, so they decide to cast themselves into adventure after adventure as the baskets become gateways to other eras. Grades 3-6. 1999.By Marie Jakober. 2007
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.By Jack Whyte. 2014
The continuing story of two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland, by defying…
the might and power of Edward Plantagenet, the king of England, who called himself the Hammer of the Scots. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic commoner in medieval British history and the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick, would perfect the techniques of guerrilla warfare developed by Wallace and use them to create his own place in history as the greatest king of Scots who ever lived. Bestseller. Sequel to "The renegade". 2014.By M. G Vassanji. 1989
Salim Juma, a Tanzanian Asian and great grandson of an African slave, is bequeathed a jute bag by his mystical…
grand-aunt. Its ancient contents enable Salim to trace the history of his family back four generations to the Indian village of Junapur. (African writers series)By Fred Stenson. 2008
1899. The British are trying to wrest control of South Africa from the Boers, who have turned out to be…
more resilient than expected, so the British send a call to arms to their colonies - and men from the Canadian prairies answer, including cowboy Frank Adams. As the young Canadians engage in battle with a wily enemy, they realize the bounds of their own loyalty and courage, and confront the arrogance and indifference of those who have led them into conflict. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.