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  • The maze : a Thomas Pichon novel
    Author:
    Johnston, A. J. B.
    Summary:

    Getting what he wants turns Thomas's world upside down, forcing him to start over - Like the streets of his 18th-century Paris home, Thomas Pichon's life is full of twists and turns. Despite winning his wife's forgiveness for an...
  • The nymph and the lamp
    Author:
    Raddall, Thomas H.
    Summary:

    A Nova Scotia classic, The Nymph and the Lamp is the story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and sensitive woman, and the men in her life--the stoic Matthew Carney, a living legend, the passionate Gregory Skane, and the innocent but infatuated...
  • The reluctant detective
    Author:
    Martin, Finley
    Summary:

    A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown...
  • The right to die the courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death
    Author:
    Bauslaugh, Gary
    Summary:

    "Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for the right to a physician-assisted death before she became...
  • The sewing basket
    Author:
    White, Susan
    Summary:

    "It is the late 1960s, and the world of twelve-year-old Ruth Iverson pretty much revolves around her friends, a boy she likes, The Monkees and spending time with her dad, doing special stuff like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs win the...
  • The south will rise at noon
    Author:
    Glover, Douglas
    Summary:

    At the centre of this story of a modern-day knight errant is Tully Stamper, a bankrupt, a liar, a tippler of corn juice and a deadbeat husband who has abandoned his wife and child on fraudulent psychiatric grounds. He is also one of the...
  • The starting eleven (Book #3)
    Author:
    Skuy, David
    Summary:

    Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
  • The stories that haunt us
    Author:
    Jessome, Bill
    Summary:

    This latest collection by Maritime Mysteries' former TV host and actor Bill Jessome includes forty of the best stories collected from around the Maritimes. Using his journalist's skills, Jessome weaves incredible stories that charm...
  • The strangers' gallery
    Author:
    Bowdring, Paul
    Summary:

    St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep. Anton is searching for a father he never met, a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces...
  • The United Nations in the 21st century grappling with the world's most challenging issues : militarism, the environment, human rights, inequality
    Author:
    Roche, Douglas J.
    Summary:

    A brief account of the UN's role in the world today, focusing on the most important issues: the use of military force in conflicts, the challenges of global warming and climate change, deep disparities between rich and poor, and the...
  • The view from a kite
    Author:
    Hull, Maureen
    Summary:

    A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in a tuberculosis sanatorium with only her journal and the odd cigarette to keep her sane. Her twisted sense of humour helps her deal with invasive medical procedures, oversensitive friends, and...
  • The woman I am
    Author:
    Whyatt, Sabrina
    Summary:

    From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount...
  • The woman I am
    Author:
    Whyatt, Sabrina
    Summary:

    From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount...
  • This Marlowe
    Author:
    Hallett, Michelle Butler
    Summary:

    "1593. Queen Elizabeth reigns from the throne while two rival spymasters--Sir Robert Cecil and the Earl of Essex--plot from the shadows. Their goal? To control succession upon the aged queen's death. The man on which their schemes...
  • This navy doctor came ashore
    Author:
    Read, Charles H.
    Summary:

    Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the...
  • Thomas : a secret life : a novel
    Author:
    Johnston, A. J. B.
    Summary:

    Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by nature, Thomas is inclined to poetry...
  • Time flies when you're chasing spies : a Halifax mystery
    Author:
    Maher, Allison
    Summary:

    Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and...
  • Tinker and Blue : a novel
    Author:
    Macdonald, Frank
    Summary:

    Colourful characters, subtle satire and social conscience is omnipresent in the hilarious adventures of Cape Breton pals Tinker and Blue in late-sixties San Francisco. It was Blue's idea to drive their fourth-hand 1957 push-button...
  • Trapper boy : a novel
    Author:
    MacDonald, Hugh R.
    Summary:

    Set in a 1920s coal-mining town, 13-year-old JW Donaldson is a good student with a bright future. As school ended for the year in 1926, JW was looking forward to summer. His father works in the mine, and there is a lot of talk around...
  • Trolled
    Author:
    Sandor, Steven
    Summary:

    All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he's saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of...

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