Title search results
Showing 5641 - 5660 of 5701 items
A fine Italian hand
By Eric Wright. 1992
Staff Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police is temporarily assigned to the homicide unit to investigate the murder…
of actor Alec Hunter whose body is found in a sleazy motel. Some strong language. 1992.News from a foreign country came
By Alberto Manguel. 1991
Novel explores the perception of personal identity and its reality. Antoine, a retired army officer; Marianne, his mute wife, who…
finds her husband both cultivated and monstrous; and their daughter, Ana, escape to Canada. The family of political refugees is summering on the Gaspe Peninsula when friends of their Argentinian maid, Rebecca, come to visit. The guests accidentally kill Marianne, and Antoine tries to explain to Ana what has happened. c1991.How boys see girls
By David Gilmour. 1991
Bix is a forty-year-old hard-drinking Canadian speech writer and would-be novelist. Holly is a nineteen-year-old street vendor who has left…
a trail of broken hearts. From the moment Bix sees Holly he is enamoured -- fantasizing about her and spying on her. When Holly off-handedly enters a relationship with him, Bix, rather than being satisfied, becomes more obsessed. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1991.Box socials: a novel
By W. P Kinsella. 1991
Jamie O'Day reminisces about Truckbox Al McClintock as he describes the the various people who inhabited the area around Edmonton…
in the 1940s, and the courtships, weddings, fights, dances and box socials that were a part of their daily lives. 1991.Murther & walking spirits
By Robertson Davies. 1991
Gil is murdered by his wife's lover, an art critic known as "the Sniffer." The victim becomes a spirit who…
follows the murderer and, seated beside him at a film festival, is fascinated by a documentary about his ancestors, which is invisible to the Sniffer. Gil sees the Welsh side of his family, devout Methodists, engage in a swearing contest, and the Loyalist side present a history of eccentricity unknown to him in real life. Some strong language. Bestseller 1991.A sensitive case
By Eric Wright. 1990
When Linda Thomas, a massage therapist with influential clients, is murdered, Inspector Charlie Salter must handle the sensitive case. He…
is delighted when Sergeant Mel Pickett, an expert at homicides, is assigned to help with the case. Some strong language. 1990.Paradise Café and other stories
By Martha Brooks. 1988
These 14 short stories examine the pain of love and growing up, peer pressure, dating and sibling rivalry. Nominated for…
1990 Governor General's Award. For junior and senior high and adult readers. 1990, c1988.Julia's last hope (Women of the West. #2.)
By Janette Oke. 1990
Because Julia had been raised and educated in luxury, her father did not think she should marry John Harrigan, a…
rugged westerner. But she had insisted, and now they are happily married; John has a good job at the lumber mill and they have a lovely home in the Canadian Rockies and twin daughters. Then the mill closes. Julia’s dreams seem to be crumbling around her until she gets an idea. But will it save the town? c1990.The calling of Emily Evans (Women of the West. #1.)
By Janette Oke. 1990
When Emily Evans goes off to Gethsemane Bible School, she has no idea what is in store for her. She…
quickly discovers one thing - God does not seem ready to send her a helpmate. Then one day during the chapel hour, Emily realizes that God is calling her to become a missionary, even if she has to go alone. Her main concerns are whether Bible School has truly prepared her, and if her faith is strong enough not to be shaken by local doubters. Followed by “Julia’s last hope”. c1990.Five wives: A Novel
By Joan Thomas. 2019
1956. A small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert…
the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. Calling it Operation Auca, the group spent several days dropping gifts from an aircraft, and then the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. A fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles - with grief, with doubt, and with each other - as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Bestseller. 2019.Friend of my youth: stories
By Alice Munro. 1990
Ten short stories are linked by themes of marriage and adultery. In the title story, the narrator reminisces about her…
long-dead mother and the family with whom her mother lived as a young teacher. Some descriptions of sex. 1990.TekWar (Tek series. #1)
By William Shatner. 1989
Set in 22nd century Los Angeles, a tough ex-cop by the name of Jake Cardigan is framed for allegedly dealing…
Tek, a highly addictive computerized drug. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Followed by "TekLords". 1989.Look through my window
By Jean Little. 1970
Tales of a gambling grandma: text and pictures
By Dayal Kaur Khalsa. 1986
A little girl's grandmother tells stories of her childhood in Russia, explains her "Laws of Life", but best of all,…
she teaches her granddaughter to play poker. Taped with: My family vacation; How pizza came to our town; Julian; I want a dog; Sleepers; Cowboy dreams. Grades K-3. 1986.Mine for keeps
By Jean Little. 1963
Love's unfolding dream (Love comes softly ; #6)
By Janette Oke. 1987
Belinda's teenage niece, Melissa, moves into the Davis home. Problems arise when Belinda, her best friend Amy Jo, and Melissa…
all fall for the same man. Sequel to "Love's unending legacy"(DC08820); followed by "Love takes wing". 1987. (Love comes softly ; 6)Fireflies
By David Morrell. 1988
A moving novel based on the death of the author's 15-year-old son's from bone cancer. For several days after his…
son's death, Morrell experienced mystical events that brought him some peace of mind and a belief that he will see his son again. Some strong language. 1988.Jack of diamonds: and other stories
By Elizabeth Spencer. 1988
A semester in the life of a garbage bag
By Gordon Korman. 1987
When luckless Raymond Jardine becomes Sean Delancey's English project partner, he persuades Sean's grandfather to pose as a long-deceased, obscure…
poet in an effort to pass the course and win a vacation to Greece. For junior and senior high readers. 1987.Love's unending legacy (Love comes softly ; #5)
By Janette Oke. 1984
Clark and Marty must accept the growing independence of their children and adjust to Clark's loss of his leg. Sequel…
to "Love's abiding joy" (DC08821). Followed by "Love's unfolding dream" (DC09012). 1984. (Love comes softly ; 5)