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A dream like mine: a novel
By M. T Kelly. 1987
A journalist is kidnapped by Arthur, a Metis, but the real focus of Arthur's attack is Bud, a polluting industrialist.…
A study of the evils of white history that supports native claims, but not violence. Strong language. Winner of the 1987 Governor General's Award. Bestseller 1987.A journeyman to grief (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2007
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted, taken across the border from Canada, and sold into…
slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a case - the owner of one of Toronto's livery stables has been found dead, horsewhipped and hanging from his wrists. Then a second man is also murdered, his body tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto's small "coloured" community has a vicious murderer in its midst. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence.2007.A heart so white: a novel (Vintage International)
By Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa. 1995
A man marries a woman and after the honeymoon she commits suicide. Subsequently, he marries her sister and has a…
son. The novel, which won the Spanish Critics' Award, recounts the son's efforts to discover the truth of that mysterious tragedy. Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997. 1995. Uniform title: Corazón tan blanco.A good place to come from
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.A gathering of days: a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel
By Joan W Blos. 1979
A story in diary form told by thirteen-year-old Catherine Hall, a New Hampshire farm girl who tells of everyday events…
such as quilting, berrying, and sugaring in the spring. She also acquires a new stepmother from the city and dares to help a runaway slave. Grades 5-8. 1980 Newbery Medal winner.A brief history of seven killings
By Marlon James. 2014
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the…
Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s. Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. 2014.A certain Mr. Takahashi: a novel
By Ann Ireland. 1985
As young girls, Jean and Colette are infatuated with Mr. Takahashi, the pianist who lives next door. The enchantment lingers…
long after he moves away. When they meet him again years later, Jean feels betrayed by Colette's actions. Winner of the 1985 Seal First Novel Award. Some descriptions of sex. c1985.A beautiful truth
By Colin McAdam. 2013
Walt and Judy are deeply in love, but Judy longs for a child and finds that life is holding few…
surprises. Walt measures all beauty against that of Judy but doesn’t want her eyes to get any sadder. They stay side by side and search for distractions, realizing they may never have a family. On a day when hope seems low, Walt finds an unexpected opportunity in the pages of Life magazine. Soon they are welcoming Looee, born in Sierra Leone, into their home in the hills of Vermont, where they come to regard him as their son. Hundreds of miles away, at the Girdish Institute in Florida, a group of chimpanzees has been studied for decades. There is proof that chimps have memories and solve problems, that they can learn language and need friends. As Looee and Mr. Ghoul ’s distant but parallel paths through childhood, adolescence and early middle age converge, a new experience of family is formed. Winner of the 2013 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. 2013.419
By Will Ferguson. 2012
When Laura’s father gets caught up in an insidious internet scam and pays with his life, she is forced to…
leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father’s killer. What she finds there will change her life forever. Descriptions of violence and strong language. Winner of the 2012 ScotiaBank Giller Prize. 2012.48 shades of brown
By Nick Earls. 2004
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing…
aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active lovelife is audible through the wall between their bedrooms. Winner of Australia's Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Older Readers award. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. For senior high readers. 1999.A confederacy of dunces (King Penguin Ser.)
By John Kennedy Toole. 1981
Ignatius J. Reilly; philosopher and slob extraordinaire, is quite content to laze in his New Orleans back bedroom, but his…
mother, baleful Fortune and a strange chain of events conspire against him. Includes strong language. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner. 1981.