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The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
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.The Blue Mountains of China
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.The boat people
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.The bookfair murders
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.The book of negroes
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.The black peacock
By Rachel Manley. 2017
Friends since attending university in Jamaica, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other.…
But Lethe is Daniel's muse, and theirs is a connection that proves unbreakable as they spend the next thirty years crisscrossing the Caribbean and travelling the world in search of love, work, and home. Now, Daniel has become an internationally renowned prize-winning poet, and Lethe aspires to be a writer in her own right. His invitation to her to join him at an isolated retreat, Peacock Island, gives them both a chance to reflect on the life they've shared. 2017.The black coat
By Neamat Imam. 2013
The 1970s. After a bloody struggle, Bangladesh is an independent nation. But thousands are pouring into Dhaka from all over…
the country, looking for food and shelter. Amongst them is Nur Hussain, an uneducated young man from a remote village, who is only good at mimicking a famous speech of the prime minister's. He turns up at journalist Khaleque Biswas's doorstep, who has the idea of turning Nur into a fake Sheikh Mujib. With the blessings of the political establishment, he starts cashing in on the nationalist fervour of the city's poorest. But even as the money rolls in, the tension between the two men increases and reaches a violent climax when Nur refuses to stick to the script. 2013.The blondes
By Emily Schultz. 2012
New York in under attack! Random but deadly attacks, all by women with light hair, have begun terrorizing the city's…
inhabitants. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange contagion that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers. Hazel flees the city and sets out to cross the border into Canada where she will find the one woman who might be able to help her in a world gone awry. c2012.The black cockade: Paul Gallant's Louisbourg command
By Victor Suthren. 1977
The biggest poutine in the world
By Andrée Poulin, Brigitte Waisberg. 2016
On his fifth birthday, Thomas’s mother left, and he hasn’t seen her since. The last thing he remembers is her…
making a delicious dish of poutine for his birthday, into which she stuck five green candles for him to blow out. On the day of this twelfth birthday, Thomas comes up with the idea of setting a Guinness world record for the biggest poutine in the world. Maybe then, his mother will come back and his emotionally distant father will pay attention to him. As he puts together all the pieces of his “Phenomenal Poutine Project,” Thomas not only learns why his mother disappeared, but he also comes to realize that Elie, the one person whose help he rejected, turns out to be his most devoted friend. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Express Award. 2016. Uniform title: La plus grosse poutine du monde.The betrayers: a novel
By David Bezmozgis. 2014
When Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician, refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West…
Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fiery young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. 2014.The better part of valor (Confederation of valor series. #2.)
By Tanya Huff. 2008
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer. Separated…
from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance mission, either as punishment for her quick mouth or praise for her service. Kerr must turn a ragtag group of Marines into a cohesive fighting unit in a matter of days, while manoeuvring through the murky political waters of the Confederation. Sequel to “Valor’s choice”, followed by “The heart of valor”. 2008.The birthday lunch
By Joan Clark. 2015
Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal,…
as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily’s 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister’s company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day’s events take an unexpected and tragic turn. Bestseller. 2015.The art of sufficient conclusions
By Sarah Dearing. 2012
"The Art of Sufficient Conclusions" is a genre-bending chronicle of one woman’s obsession to comprehend the slippery nature of truth.…
It’s a compelling literary mash-up of fiction, memoir, and archival material, tracing the complex processes of personal identity, belief and the creation of art itself. 2012.The best kind of people
By Zoe Whittall. 2016
When George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at his school, his…
family is left to pick up the pieces. His wife, Joan, a trauma nurse, is unable to triage her emotional reactions, and vaults between rage and denial. Daughter Sadie, the consummate overachiever, finds herself paralyzed on her boyfriend’s couch with a bong, while a local author attempts to exploit her story. Their son, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, assists in his father’s defense while wrestling with the unhappy memories of his own teen years in high school. Unfolding over a one-year period, the novel focuses on the Woodbury family as they struggle to support George while privately grappling with the possibility of his guilt. Bestseller. 2016.The bear: a novel
By Claire Cameron. 2014
Told from the point of view of a six-year-old child, this is the story of Anna and her little brother,…
Stick, two young children forced to fend for themselves in Algonquin Park after a black bear attacks their parents. 2014.The beautiful West & the beloved of God (Essential prose series ; #105)
By Michael Springate. 2014
Elena and Mahfouz meet in the spring of 2008 in Montreal. But that summer Mahfouz doesn't return from a trip…
to Cairo, and his father is picked up and held indefinitely for unknown charges on undisclosed evidence. No longer in contact with each other, Elena and Mahfouz must separately come to terms with their historical situation, preparing for a future shaped by forces they struggle to understand. 2014.The beloved land (Song of Acadia. #5)
By Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn. 2003
Just before the French were expelled from Nova Scotia early in the 18th century, two women, one French, one English,…
became as sisters. Now their daughters Anne and Nicole are just as close, although one lives in England and the other in America. But when they each receive a letter from Nova Scotia, they are suddenly called on a journey back to their families' beloved homeland. Sequel to "The distant beacon". 2003.The assassin's curse (Blackthorn Key. #3.)
By Kevin Sands. 2017
When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris…
to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne. And when they learn an ancient treasure is promised to any assassin who succeeds, they realize the entire royal family is at stake—as well as their own lives. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2018 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. 2017.The appraisal (Maple leaf)
By Anna Porter. 2017
When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to…
Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin's notorious gulags. As she works to unravel the truth of the painting's ownership and dodges her tail, the dogged ex-detective Attila Feher, Helena is forced to call on all her considerable skills to stay alive and out of jail. 2017.