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By Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.By Ann Ireland. 2013
At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in…
a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap - a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail - can ruin years of preparation. More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle-aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent. 2013.By Iain Lawrence. 2007
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are…
taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The cannibals". 2007.By Iain Lawrence. 2006
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely - with assorted juvenile criminals - escape the ship taking them to serve their…
terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The convicts", followed by "The castaways". 2006.By Gordon Korman. 1999
Wild things happen at the South Middle School when Milo's science project, Henrietta the chicken, becomes the hockey team's mascot…
and their only chance for a winning season. Grades 4-7. 1999.By Cathy Ace. 2017
Henry Devereaux Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is terribly worried about some water damage to the priceless books in his…
lower library, so retains the services of a local book restorer to tackle much-needed repairs. The antiquarian also runs the Crooks and Cooks bookshop with his daughter - local TV celebrity chef, The Curious Cook. When the book restorer mentions some strange shenanigans going on at the book shop, Dowager Duchess Althea brings the case to her colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency. As the WISE women try to unravel one puzzle from their base at stately Chellingworth Hall, they then get embroiled in another when they come across a valuable book of miniatures which seems to be the work of a local famous artist, murdered by her own brother. Are the cases linked and why do both mysteries lead to a nearby old folks' home? The WISE women are on the case - and nothing will get in their way... or will it? Sequel to "The case of the missing Morris dancer". 2017.By Karen Connelly. 2017
Eliza Keenan is the mother of two young sons, the owner of a flower studio that caters to the city's…
elite, and the loving wife of a deliciously rumpled math professor named Andrew. She's on the move from dawn until her boys are in bed, and after they're asleep she cleans her house. Her one complaint about her life is that the only time she has for herself is her twice-weekly swim in the local community centre pool. Then one morning into this life comes a tall, dark and lovely stranger, a young woman Eliza encounters at the pool and nicknames 'the Amazon.' The sight of this woman, naked in the change room, completely undoes Eliza, and soon the two of them are entangled in an affair that breaks all the rules, and threatens to capsize not only Eliza and her happy family, but her lover's world, too. 2017.By Iain Lawrence. 2002
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he…
and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The smugglers". 2002.By Karim Alrawi. 2015
Set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal repression of a totalitarian regime. Tarek, a young father,…
watches as the city he lives in is mired in protests, hemmed in by barricades and strangely inundated by great flocks of birds. Facing the threat of police arrest, he flees with his nine-year-old daughter, Neda. As Tarek and Neda journey through villages razed by conflict towards a mountain refuge, they meet with fellow travellers from Tarek's past and his time as a political prisoner. The reunion reveals secrets that Tarek must come to terms with for his own and Neda's sake. 2013 winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. 2015.By Jacqueline Baker. 2014
In the spring of 1936, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is broke, living alone in a creaky old house and deathly…
ill. At the edge of a nervous breakdown, he hires a personal assistant, Arthor Crandle. Candle arrives at Lovecraft's home with no knowledge of the writer or his work, but is soon drawn into his distinctly eerie and unnerving world. c2014.By Lesley Choyce. 2008
Michael Grove was sixteen years old when he was convicted for the murder of Lisa Conroy, his beloved girlfriend. A…
public outcry against light penalties for young offenders ensured that Michael was tried as an adult and received a harsh sentence, but six months into his imprisonment, the true murderer confessed. Michael was released, but quickly found that the stigma of imprisonment and the (wrongful) rap for murder was not an easy thing to escape. Descriptions of sex, some strong language and some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2008.By Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.By Rudy Henry Wiebe. 1970
A wandering chronicle, spanning a hundred years, of the Mennonite diaspora, beginning in the brutality of Stalin's Soviet Union and…
moving outward to find sanctuary of sorts in Canada and Paraguay. 2008, c1970.By Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.By Anna Porter. 1997
At the biggest party of the Frankfurt International Bookfair, a literary agent is found dead in his chair. Suspects abound,…
including editor Marsha Hillier, whose major author was a client of the dead agent. The situation becomes more complex when a British publisher, also connected to Marsha, is murdered. 1997.By Lawrence Hill. 2007
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.By Blandine Chabot. 2017
C'est dans un roman de Françoise Sagan emprunté à la bibliothèque que Catherine trouve un marque-page bien particulier : le…
nom d'un homme - Jean-Philippe - et son numéro de téléphone, suivis de l'invitation Appelle quand tu veux . Célibataire mais aussi anéantie par sa dernière relation amoureuse, Catherine se lance dans un projet que son amie Margaux situe à mi-chemin entre le plus fou des désespoirs et le plus admirable des espoirs . Appeler ce Jean-Philippe. L'histoire d'une rencontre improbable, d'un chat nommé Luc, d'une collection de miroirs, d'une Bénédicte aux cheveux roux, d'une impératrice russe et d'une profonde aversion pour les chemises à manches courtes. 2017.By Frédéric Tremblay. 2012
" À sa naissance, Adam Dufort a été baptisé lenfant-texto. Sur ses vieux jours cependant, le poids de cet héritage…
lui pèse : alourdi par les souvenirs, il sen libère dans un récit qui est également celui de sa génération; comme tant dautres, il a été élevé avec le texto, a appris à travers lui, a aimé, haï et travaillé grâce à lui. De la famille à lère du texto jusquà la création de la télépathie technique, en passant par le texto-terrorisme, 70 ans de mémoire textoïque montrent comment le texto a écrit Adam plutôt que linverse. Cette ode à la magie du texto est aussi un clin dœil à ses travers. Fido et Telus auront-ils été les dignes successeurs de Gutenberg? " -- 4e de couv.By Annie Bacon. 2015
Savez-vous que certains divans de banlieue abritent des spiratins? Et que les bruits dans la tuyauterie du sous-sol signalent parfois…
la présence de plombivares? Partez à la découverte de ces créatures farfelues en compagnie d'Émile, d'Ophélie et de l'étrange professeur Habbitrole, éminent spécialiste en pestiologie. On plonge dans le livre d'Annie Bacon comme Alice dans le terrier du lapin blanc. Suivi de "Dans la baignoire". Années 2-4. 2015.By Chrystine Brouillet. 2015
Quand Maud Graham est appelée à éclaircir le meurtre d'un homme trouvé gisant dans son sang, seul dans son appartement,…
elle ne peut se douter des motifs de ce crime. Qui pouvait bien en vouloir à ce point à cet homme sans histoire ? Avec ses coéquipiers McEwen, Joubert, Nguyen et Rouaix , la détective avance en plein brouillard jusqu'à ce que commence à se dessiner une toile complexe. La victime a été témoin d'une violence qu'on aurait voulu garder dissimulée à tout jamais. Et si l'enquête porte d'abord sur l'assassinat d'un homme, c'est sur la maltraitance subie par des femmes qu'on lèvera le voile en cours d'investigation. Alarmée par le danger qui menace ces femmes devenues des proies malgré elles, Graham se lance sur la trace de l'agresseur. Une poignante course contre la montre démarre. Suite de "Saccages", suivi de "Vrai ou faux". 2015.