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By Morley Torgov. 1974
An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.By Sandra Gwyn. 1984
A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.By Ernest Buckler. 1977
By Ian Ferguson. 2003
Ferguson has crafted a delightfully idiosyncratic account of growing up in the North, where Fort Vermilion Alberta seemed as exotic…
as Australia or Mexico. The memorable cast of characters includes Lloyd Loonskin, Sixtoes Mitchell, Ellen "No Refunds" McTeer, and Ferguson's father Hank, a con man of consummate charm. 2003.By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.By Michael Moore. 2001
Author of "Downsize This!" criticizes the U.S. government of the twenty-first century. Laments that "nothing seems to work" and rants…
against the 2000 election and the administration's policies. Some strong language. Bestseller. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2001.By Farley Mowat. 1969
By Gary Lautens. 1981
Lautens, winner of the 1981 Leacock Medal for humour, shares his hilarious and entertaining recollections of living, loving, and savouring…
his experiences with a wife, three children, and a dog. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Winner of the 1981 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. 1981.By Jess Lourey. 2018
Mira James fled her small town for college. Now she reluctantly moves to tiny Battle Lake, Minnesota, where she housesits,…
works at the library and the newspaper, and solves murders. Includes May Day, June Bug, Knee High by the Fourth of July, and August Moon. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 2018By Crystal V. Rhodes, L. Barnett Evans, Lillie Barnett Evans. 2011
When amateur sleuths Hattie Collier, Bea Bell and Connie Palmer, win a trip to Las Vegas, they decide that crime…
solving can take a holiday. It's fun in the sun for the adventurous widows, and Hattie's cantankerous mother-law, Miss Fanny that is until the devils playground proves too much for Hattie. She is sure that her friends are headed straight to hell and with her mother-in-law hitting the Veg casinos like a pro, what is a God-fearing grandmother to do? In the process of saving her friends and Sin City from the gates of hell, she raids a strip joint, causes a street riot, is tossed in jail and becomes the infamous Bible Bomber. UnratedBy Daisy Pettles. 2018
When Dode Schneider, rattle-brained Indiana farmer, insists an abandoned mansion is haunted by ghosts with big butts who dance in…
the apple orchard, Pawpaw County Sheriff Boots Gibson happily off-loads the crazy complaint to Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens, senior sleuths in training with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong languageRuby, the rabbi's widow, knows she's in trouble when her longtime nemesis, Essie Sue, talks her into housing Essie Sue's…
twin cousins, Lester and Larry. The boys are in town for pre-Bar Mitzvah schooling from Rabbi Kevin Kapstein. Essie Sue's plans to orchestrate the grandest Bar Mitzvah feast in Temple Rita's history. The star attraction is sure to be Herman Guenther, master lox cutter. But when he meets an untimely death, Ruby investigates, tracing the victim's roots back to Nazi-era Denmark. Her investigation takes her from Eternal, Texas to Alaska to New YorkBy Jess Lourey. 2018
PI-in-training Mira James has more murders to solve, while juggling her jobs at the library and the newspaper in Battle…
Lake, Minnesota. Includes December Dread, January Thaw, and February Fever, which has Mira looking for a killer on a snowed-in Valentine train. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Jess Lourey. 2018
Three mysteries feature amateur sleuth Mira James, who has seen a gravedigger's share of dead bodies since moving to small-town…
Battle Lake, Minnesota, and taking part-time jobs at the library and the newspaper. Includes September Mourn, October Fest, and November Hunt. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Bernie Lambek. 2018
Collection of fifty of the author's humorous and satirical columns first appearing in the "Nation" magazine between 1978 and 1981.…
Pokes fun at diverse subjects ranging from First Family antics to contemporary mores and considers important questions of the day, such as why employees of health food stores always look so unhealthy. Adult. UnratedBy Sid Fleischman, Jos. A. Smith. 1992
1894. Twelve-year-old Jake Bannock assumes that he is an orphan after he sees his actor-father's coffin lowered into the ground…
at Blow- fly, Nevada. If one discounts the rumor that Sam Bannock had con- cealed a cache of diamonds, Jake's only inheritance is his father's part-wolf mongrel dog. His father called the dog Amigo; Jake calls him Jim Ugly. Together they set out to learn the truth about Sam's supposed demise--and the diamonds. For grades 4-7. 1992By Eve Bunting. 1994
The Slam Dunkers sneakers company is having a contest, and the person with the stinkiest sneakers will win three pairs…
of its popular brand. Ten-year-old Colin knows he has a great chance of winning. After careful handling, his sneakers are so foul his mother makes him leave them in the hall outside their apartment. Then, the day before the contest, someone steals Colin's shoes! For grades 4-7By Rick Shefchik. 2010
Ex-Minneapolis police detective Sam Skarda is hired by the president of the Green Bay Packers to investigate an insider plot…
designed to sell the publicly-owned Packers to a private buyer. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceBy Jess Lourey. 2019
"Librarian and aspiring PI Mira James has discovered one corpse a month for each of the eleven months she's lived…
in Battle Lake, Minnesota. She'd give her left foot to break that streak this April. Then she stumbles across that disturbing note, and a Battle Lake girl vanishes. She follows the note's trail and is horrified to discover that it leads to her father, who died 13 years earlier. It's a race against the clock to crack the secret he carried to his grave in time to save the girl. Meanwhile, chiseled police chief Gary Wohnt is scrutinizing her every move, aching to finally put her behind bars, and Johnny, her sweet and sexy boyfriend, is planning a surprise for her. Problem is, she doesn't know if it's a marriage proposal or an intervention. As Mrs. Berns and Mira take on their final case together, Mira discovers it's more personal than she could have imagined, and that she holds not only the life of the vanished girl but the fate of all Battle Lake in her hands." -- Provided by publisherBy Valeria Poropat, Falafel Jones. 2015
MA DI CHE PARLIAMO? Max Fried è un ex esperto di informatica forense che dedica la vita a nuotare, bere…
e fare il bagno sotto il sole caldo della Florida, ma oggi...è proprio una giornataccia. C'è un assassino in arrivo. Quando un suadente avvocato convince Max a trovare i beni di un cliente morto, lui accetta, pensando che sarà una passeggiata. Al contrario, un vecchio assassino con una nuova identità entra in casa di Max e ruba il computer del cliente. Max non sa che il computer contiene indizi per un assassinio vecchio di 20 anni, ma d'altra parte l'assassino non sa che Max ha una copia di tutti i file del computer rubato sul suo iPod. Purtroppo per il cattivo, la copia contiene le prove che lo porteranno alla condanna a morte. Ora, Max è l'ultimo ancora in vita che sa perché le persone muoiono. Se riuscirà a battere l'assassinio in astuzia, potrà tornare al suo sgabello e al suo bar sulla spiaggia. In caso contrario, diventerà la vittima numero cinque. SPIAGGE, PUPE E PALLOTTOLE è un giallo con un avvocato playboy, una ricca ereditiera, il nostro esaminatore forense preferito e, ah già, una manciata di morti, qualche poliziotto e un assassino. Max e io abbiamo lavorato entrambi come esperti forensi nel settore informatico, abbiamo la licenza da investigatore privato e viviamo su un'isoletta. Però non ditegli che solo uno di noi due è reale.