McCall Smith delivers a collection of stories about dating, with emotions running from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.
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Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:Genre: Short stories, Humorous fiction -
Author: Koomson, DorothySummary:
18-year-old Serena Gorringe and 16-year-old Poppy Carlisle were tried for the murder of their teacher--but only Poppy was convicted of the crime. Twenty years later, Poppy is released from prison...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Diamond, De'neshaSummary:
On the streets of Memphis, gang wars are heating up thanks to the arrival of dangerous new players--the Cripettes. Ta'shara is planning to knock her sister off her perch and climbing to the top of...
Genre: Urban fiction -
Author: Korman, GordonSummary:Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Grant, MicheleSummary:
When his brother kicks him out of his house, Avery Beauregard Montgomery, who is unemployed and basically homeless, decides to stay at his sister's apartment where he discovers exactly what he...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Lewis, J. PatrickSummary:Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis crafts poetic portraits of civil rights luminaries in this important work. From Coretta Scott King and Gandhi to Nelson Mandela and Jackie Robinson, When...
Genre: Juvenile poetry -
Author: Angleberger, Tom.Summary:Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight is back--and not a moment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Duffy, EamonSummary:In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and anti-papal...
Genre: History and geography -
Author: Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:Fourteen-year-old Andrea travels once again to Moose Jaw, where she and her diabetic younger brother Tony soon get stuck in the perilous past in the now dangerous tunnels with Beanie, Vance and a...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Goobie, BethSummary:After she inadvertently gains a powerful enemy by claiming the "cool" seat in her homeroom, tenth grader Meredith struggles to find the strength to stand up for herself and survive high school...
Genre: Young adult fiction -
Author: Musgrave, SusanSummary:Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan...
Genre: Essays, Canadian nonfiction -
Author: Pitsula, James M.Summary:The First World War profoundly affected every community in Canada. In Regina, the politics of national identity, the rural myth, and the social gospel all lent a distinctive flavour to the city's...
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Author: Olsen, KeithSummary:
One winter in the 1960's Keith Olsen, his brother and parents went out to a trapline on Little Mahigan Lake in Northern Saskatchwan. Olsen recounts how his family made a success of this way...
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Author: Siggins, MaggieSummary:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors...
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Author: Birdsell, SandraSummary:One chilly spring morning, Joe Beaudry and his wife Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge a saint. They are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Wal-Mart parking lot...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Canadian fiction