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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 Buddha of suburbia
By Hanif Kureishi. 1990
The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and…
bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the south London suburbs. 1990.The body of Christopher Creed
By Carol Plum-Ucci. 2000
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of…
the class outcast. As he searches for answers, he analyzes his own behaviour and discovers secrets in the victim's family. Some strong language. For Senior High readers. Michael L. Printz Honor. c2000.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.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.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.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.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.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.Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
By Rosemary Sullivan. 1995
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…
poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Safe as houses
By Eric Walters. 2007
October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Torontonian Elizabeth is a typical grade 8 girl, with a crush on a boy in her…
class and a baby-sitting job. Every day, she walks Suzie and her older brother David home after school, and then stays there until their mother gets home. On this particular evening, Hurricane Hazel roars down on Toronto, bringing torrential rains and flooding - and David and Suzie's house is on a street that will be practically wiped out. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 2008 Red Maple Award. 2007.Run
By Eric Walters. 2003
Winston is suspended from school and keeps running away from home, so his mother sends him to stay with his…
father, a well-known newspaper reporter who's covering the story of Terry Fox and his friend Doug Alward. Winston spends time with Terry and Doug, and their determination to achieve what seems like an impossible goal makes a big impression on him. But can Winston learn enough to deal with an article of his father's that characterizes Terry and Doug in an unflattering way, and with his own problems? Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 5-8. 2003.River thieves
By Michael Crummey. 2001
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British naval officer David Buchan arrives in Newfoundland to establish contact with the…
Beothuk Indians, who are facing extinction. Approaching the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice, Buchan learns of their allegiances, deep grudges and family tensions. As his peace missions go awry, and a murder occurs, the delicate web of allegiance, obligation and debt that holds together the Peyton household and the community slowly begins to unravel. Strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha
By Roddy Doyle. 1993
Paddy Clarke is ten in 1968 and loves George Best, Geronimo, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He…
hates zoos, kissing, boys from the Corporation houses, and his brother. He wants to be a missionary and plays lepers. Kevin is his best friend. Paddy's confused -- he sees everything, but understands less and less. Winner of the 1993 Man Booker Prize. 1993.Olive's ocean
By Kevin Henkes. 2003
As her family prepares for the annual visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, 12-year-old Martha is given a…
journal entry from her classmate, Olive, who was killed in an automobile accident. Martha didn't really know Olive, but the journal entry makes Martha reflect on what might have been if Olive hadn't died. In her two weeks on Cape Cod, Martha learns to deal with the changing emotional landscape that comes with adolescence. For junior high readers. 2004 Newbery Honor book. 2003.Monsoon (The Courtneys of Africa #10)
By Wilbur A Smith. 1999
Hal Courteney is sent by the East India Trading Company to attack Arab pirates who are harassing trade off the…
African coast. Although the mission is an eventual success, Hal himself is seriously injured and returns to England. His son Tom becomes the real hero of the story. Sequel to "Birds of prey" (DC21494). Followed by "Blue horizon" (DC25690). Winner of the 2001 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1999. (The Courtneys of Africa: prequel ; 2)Mile end
By Gail Scott, Lise Tremblay. 2002
The narrator of this novel does not have a name; she is simply a grotesque "fat woman," getting larger every…
day. No one thinks she understands anything, and she feels displaced. Yet within this spreading body crouches the still point of a sharply observant intelligence, and her resignation is a tightly wounded emotional spring, set to lash out terribly on a world of blind and tormenting indifference. Winner of the Governor General's Award. 2002. Uniform title: Danse juive.Lives of the saints
By Nino Ricci. 1990
Christina's affair with a mysterious stranger abruptly shatters the innocence of her son's childhood. As Vittorio tries to piece together…
the truth of his mother's crime, the reader is shown the hypocrisy and malice that lurks beneath the veneer of Catholicism in their small Italian village. 1990 winner of the Governor General's Award. Followed by "In a glass house".Man descending
By Guy Vanderhaeghe. 1982
Vanderhaeghe's twelve short stories come together thematically to create a chronicle of human experience. Set in locations from the Canadian…
prairies to London, England, these include the world as seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old as well as through those of an old man on the verge of senility. The stories range from farce to romance to tragedy. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Strong language. 1982.Look for me: a novel (Tel Aviv trilogy ; #2)
By Edeet Ravel. 2004
Dana Hillman is a young Israeli woman, a peace activist and photographer, but also a writer of junky romance novels…
to pay the bills. Ironically, her own love story was ended by her husband Daniel's sudden disappearance eleven years before. Each year Dana publishes a full-page ad addressed to her lost husband. Dana holds fast to trust, love, and a vision for the future. Sequel to "Ten thousand lovers" (DC25214), followed by "A wall of light" (DC27861). Winner of the 2004 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2004. (Tel Aviv trilogy ; 2)