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The heaven shop
By Deborah Ellis. 2004
Binti and her siblings are orphaned when their father dies of AIDS. Split up and sent to relatives all over…
Malawi, they suffer increasing hardship. But Binti is not about to give up; she will look outside herself and find a new way to be special. For junior and senior high readers. 2004.The green library
By Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1996
Eva has carefully constructed her world in a bid to make herself invisible. The structure falls to pieces when a…
stranger gives her a photograph of a boy identical to her own son, but who lived in the 1930s in another place. The photograph sets Eva on a journey to trace her family's unknown history. 1996.The Cooperman variations: a Benny Cooperman mystery (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser.)
By Howard Engel. 2001
Benny is unexpectedly visited by Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty, now Head of Entertainment at a TV network.…
A friend was murdered while at her house, and Vanessa fears she was the target. She asks Benny to protect her, so he travels to Toronto, where he poses as her assistant. As he tries to help his client, assist the local cops, and avoid making enemies, he discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business. 2001.The bone collector's son
By Paul Yee. 2004
Fourteen-year old Bing-wing Chan resents his father not only because the man gambles away all their money, but also because…
he now forces Bing to help him in his gruesome job. Ba is the bone collector, digging up the bones of the deceased Chinese so they can be sent to China. Bing encounters some strange incidents after they dig up a skeleton with no skull, but ghosts, magic and a fortune teller help him find his courage. For junior high readers. 2003.Sweetness in the belly
By Camilla Gibb. 2005
White, English, and orphaned at eight, Lilly grows up in Morocco as a Muslim, moves to Harar, Ethiopia, for five…
years and settles in London after political upheaval makes her vulnerable. She agonizes over the uprootings that famine, corruption, and political instability caused in Ethiopia in the 1970s and '80s. Also painful is not knowing whether Aziz, her Ethiopian lover, is alive or dead, putting Lilly in a 17-year limbo between grief and desperate hope. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 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.Mina's spring of colors
By Rachna Gilmore. 2000
Mina used to love her grandfather, her Nanaji, but now that he lives with her and her parents, he's always…
bothering and embarrassing her. But when a girl at school, Ashley, makes fun of him, Mina decides to get revenge at her family's annual Holi party, a special Hindu festival. Grades 3-6. 2000.Midnight at the Dragon Café
By Judy Fong Bates. 2004
Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family.…
She feels the weight of her mother's unhappiness as her life takes her outside of the diner and the traditional customs. Then when a tragedy occurs at school, Su-Jen's life changes again. 2004.I'm Frankie Sterne: a novel
By Dave Margoshes. 2000
Frankie is a bit of a chameleon, changing with the times as he grows to manhood during the turbulent North…
American mid-century. A mulatto who wears race and colour on his sleeve as he grows up with his Jewish father in Spanish Harlem, Frankie is part of a street corner band that makes good in the heydays of rock 'n roll, a finger-picking itinerant folkie in the freewheeling sixties and a budding composer of serious music in the seventies in Canada. Along the way, he passes by the margins of some of the key events of his time, his life illuminating that of a whole generation. Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2000.In a glass house: a novel
By Nino Ricci. 1993
Vittorio Innocente, age 7, arrives from Italy with his newborn half-sister, to live with his estranged father on a farm…
in Southwestern Ontario. On a journey of self-discovery, we follow Vittorio from his awkward childhood experiences as an immigrant to his years at university in Toronto. He then leaves Canada to teach in Africa, only to realize that he still feels the pull of his family in Canada. Sequel to "Lives of the saints" (DC09475). Some strong language and descriptions of sex. c1993.Chanda's secrets
By Allan Stratton. 2004
S6-year-old Chanda Kabelo has secrets. She loves school and dreams of winning a scholarship one day, but people are dying…
around her. Everyone is afraid to say why, but Chanda knows it's because of AIDS. To make matters worse, Chanda's mother is not herself, her little sister is out of control, and her best friend is in serious trouble. Junior and Senior High. Followed by "Chanda's wars" . 2004.Can you hear the nightbird call?
By Anita Rau Badami. 2006
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, the author charts the interweaving…
stories of three Indian women - Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo - each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006.Arrow of God (African trilogy. #3)
By Chinua Achebe. 1964
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning…
to find his authority increasingly under threat, from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - surely he is an arrow in the bow of his God? Armed with this belief, he is prepared to lead his people, even if it means destruction and annihilation. Yet the people will not be so easily dominated. 1964.All that matters: a novel
By Wayson Choy. 2004
A sequel to "The Jade Peony" (DC17207), which revisits the family home of the Chen siblings in 1930's and 1940's…
Vancouver. "First Son" Kiam-Kim tells how he arrived in Canada at the age of three with his widowed father and strong-willed grandmother. As Kiam-Kim matures under the tutelage of his fawning but tough-as-nails grandmother Poh-Poh, he faces down several challenges to his family position, and also makes friends with the Irish boy next door. Some strong language. 2004.The question
By Austin Clarke. 1999
An unnamed man, a judge at the Immigration and Refugee Board in Toronto and an immigrant from an unnamed Caribbean…
island, meets an unnamed white woman at a party. She quickly seduces him, and he abandons his long-time lover for the new woman. However, the man finds that his new love comes with some deeply trying accessories. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2004, c1999.The secret mitzvah of Lucio Burke
By Steven Hayward. 2005
Toronto, 1933. Lucio, age 17, falls in love with a gorgeous Jewish radical, Ruthie, but Dubie, Lucio's best friend, is…
also in love with Ruthie and accidentally cuts off his finger at the moment he realizes it. Add to the mix immigrants, five unmarried Italian brothers, swastika-waving anti-Semites, an entire baseball team, an Irish priest, a plaster saint, the riot at Christie Pits, as well as the second-best ballplayer Toronto would ever see. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2005.The wheel keeper (Nunatak fiction)
By Robert Pepper-Smith. 2002
An Italian-Canadian child tells the story of how his grandmother was forced to flee to Canada when she became pregnant…
without being married, and then, later on, the story of the hydro-electric dam that threatens to flood his village. 2002.Turning Samoan: a novel
By Dennis Chute. 2001
Willie Jakes is a 300-pound Samoan private detective and pacifist. Maria Ralko is a 90-pound Gypsy woman and card shark.…
Their paths cross one fateful day on an Edmonton freeway when Maria pretends to be run over by Willie's truck as part of an insurance scam. 2001.The Ukrainian wedding
By Larry Warwaruk. 1998
During World War Two, in the Ukrainian settlement at Manitoba's Interlake region, a murder occurs disrupting a family wedding. The…
murder isn't the only thing the community has to deal with, though. They are all facing a great change as they become accustomed to their new Canadian surroundings, customs and culture. 1998.The polished hoe: a novel
By Austin Clarke. 2002
Mary-Mathilda, an elderly woman, is confessing a murder to Sergeant, the policeman she has known all her life. The dead…
man is Mr. Bellfeels, the owner of the sugar plantation where she worked, and the man whose mistress she became. Set in the post-colonial West Indies of the thirties and forties, the novel unravels over the course of twenty-four hours, spanning the lifetime of a woman and the collective experience of a society characterized by slavery. Some strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. Giller Prize winner. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.