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  • Somewhere I belong
    Author:
    Jenkins, Glenna Landrigan
    Summary:

    In Somewhere I Belong, we meet young P.J. Kavanaugh at North Boston Station. His father has died, the Depression is on, and his mother is moving them back home. They settle in, and P.J. makes new friends. But the P.E.I. winter is harsh...
  • South End boy growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s
    Author:
    Bennet, Jim
    Summary:

    In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader "down the bank" with him to adventures all over the city's...
  • Split
    Author:
    Creelman, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. But sixteen-year-old identical twin sisters April and Pilgrim live happily on their parents' farm. Their father recruits a young Bahamian...
  • Ten thousand truths
    Author:
    White, Susan
    Summary:

    A moving story of losing family but finding a new one. Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her. She's been shuttled from one rotten foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in...
  • The angel's jig
    Author:
    Poliquin, Daniel
    Summary:

    "Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute...
  • The diplomat Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis
    Author:
    Anderson, Antony
    Summary:

    Saturday, November 3, 1956 The United Nations about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about read a proposal composed of seventy-eight...
  • The dread crew : pirates of the backwoods
    Author:
    Inglis, Kate
    Summary:

    Contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many...
  • The environment
    Author:
    Pannozzo, Linda
    Summary:

    In About Canada: The Environment, award-winning author Linda Pannozzo examines the philosophical, economic and ideological landscape of our current environmental worldview. She connects our faith in the free market and our adherence to...
  • The extraordinary life of Anna Swan
    Author:
    Renaud, Anne
    Summary:

    Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size -- nearly 2.5 metres (almost 8 feet) tall. She was billed as "The Nova Scotia Giant Girl" at P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York. But despite her unusual and challenging physical attributes,...
  • The fossil hunter of Sydney Mines
    Author:
    Yhard, Jo Ann.
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Grace is grieving over her father's mysterious death, dealing with her distraught mother's erratic parenting, and evading her creepy nosy neighbour, Mr. Stuckless. She and her friends like to get away from it all by...
  • The great class war 1914-1918
    Author:
    Pauwels, Jacques R.
    Summary:

    Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and...
  • The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
    Author:
    Canning, Bridget
    Summary:

    Wanda Jaynes is about to lose her job amidst a mountain of bills, and she suspects her musician boyfriend might be romantically interested in her friend, Trish. But Wanda’s life changes radically on a routine trip to the grocery store...
  • The hunter and the wild girl
    Author:
    Holdstock, Pauline
    Summary:

    A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France. In the village of Freyzus, she is chased by suspicious townspeople to the edge of a gorge, where she jumps and disappears, vanishing into village legend. On the other...
  • The last wild boy
    Author:
    MacDonald, Hugh
    Summary:

    The Last Wild Boy is a dystopic story about Nora who lives in the walled city of Aahimsa, an idyllic community of girls and women working together to make a peaceful life free of the brutality of the outsiders. Nora and her friend Alice...
  • The life and times of Captain N.
    Author:
    Glover, Douglas
    Summary:

    Douglas Glover’s acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most respected critics in Canada and the US,...
  • The life and times of Captain N. : a novel
    Author:
    Glover, Douglas
    Summary:

    Set on the Niagara frontier in the final days of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Captain N. sees the revolutionary new world order from the standpoint of the losers. Hendrick Nellis, a Tory guerrilla, has also been a...
  • The Lost Canoe
    Author:
    Coady, Lawrence W.
    Summary:

    A contemporary account of tracking a historical explorer across Labrador. In the mode of Leonidas Hubbard and William Cabot, Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador....
  • The lost canoe : a Labrador adventure
    Author:
    Coady, L. W.
    Summary:

    Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador. Disregarding advice, his expedition headed up a canyon and massive cliffs all with a canoe in tow. The canoe was later abandoned. The...
  • The lost wilderness rediscovering W.F. Ganong's New Brunswick
    Author:
    Guitard, Nicholas
    Summary:

    For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history. The importance of his work is well understood by academics studying natural history or cartography, but for the...
  • The manager : a novel
    Author:
    Stellings, Caroline
    Summary:

    Tina is short, but she packs a wallop. And she knows every move a boxer needs to get to the top. It's 1979, and the glory days of the sport are over. With the family gym about to fold, and her father unwilling to listen to a word she...

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