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Two solitudes / by MacLennan, Hugh,1907-1990.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Irish; Group identity; Ethnicity; Canadians, French-speaking;
© 2008., McClelland & Stewart,
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The journey of the ancestors' gifts / by Trinh, Linda.; Nguyen, Clayton.;
It's their first time in Vietnam and staying in Grandma Nội's childhood home, so they should be excited. As soon as they enter the house, though, something doesn't feel right. Why is the door to the ancestors' room always closed? And why can't they connect with Grandma Nội using their gifts, the way they can at home?
Subjects: Vietnamese Canadians; Vietnamese; Families; Grandmothers; Gifts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A love of reading : reviews of contemporary fiction / by Adams, Robert,1937-;
LSC
Subjects: English fiction; American fiction; Canadian fiction (English);
© 2002, c2001., McClelland & Stewart,
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Flights and falls / by Greenaway, R. M.,author.;
"Late at night in December, along the treacherous Sea-to-Sky highway, a red Chevette crashes into the woods. There is one casualty: a young woman. Then, two passersby who had assisted the victim are ruthlessly attacked. Only one survives, and passes on a bizarre clue that sets in motion an investigation into what appears to be an unspeakable game of thrills. While Leith pores over past incidents along the stretch of highway to zero in on the faceless menace, Dion begins to suspect the team is on the wrong track - and that a crime from his past may hold the key to this deadly mystery."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Murder; Traffic accidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heat wave / by Jennings, Maureen,author.;
"From the author of the Murdoch Mysteries books. July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Anonymous letters; Jews, Canadian; Embezzlement;
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After Anne : a novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life / by Steiner, Logan,author.;
"As a young woman, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors, but she knew she was meant to create, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud's mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled--Anne with an "e." But the day Maud writes the first lines of Anne of Green Gables, she gets a visit from the handsome new minister in town, and soon faces a decision: forge her own path as a spinster authoress, or live as a rural minister's wife, an existence she once called "a synonym for respectable slavery." The choice she makes alters the course of her life. With a husband whose religious mania threatens their health and happiness at every turn, the secret darkness that Maud herself holds inside threatens to break through the persona she shows to the world, driving an ever-widening wedge between her public face and private self, and putting her on a path towards a heartbreaking end."--Publisher website.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Authors; Authors, Canadian; Man-woman relationships; Women authors;
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Three day road : a novel / by Boyden, Joseph,1966-;
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Canadians; Cree Indians; Snipers; War stories;
© 2005., Viking Canada,
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Sisters of the spruce : a novel / by Shimotakahara, Leslie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies' aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya's father, Sannosuke--a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan--assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers. But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as "the Captain" escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend--a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons--to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man? Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors' stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Families; Female friendship; Loggers; Sisters; Sitka spruce; Survival; Japanese Canadians;
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The chai factor / by Heron, Farah,author.;
Thirty-year-old engineer Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad-school thesis is done. Nothing can distract her from completing a paper that is so good her boss will give her the promotion she deserves when she returns to work in the city. Amira leaves campus early, planning to work in the quiet basement apartment of her family's house. But she arrives home to find that her grandmother has rented the basement to ... a barbershop quartet. Seriously? The living situation is awkward: Amira needs silence; the quartet needs to rehearse for a competition; and Duncan, the small-town baritone with the flannel shirts, is driving her up the wall. As Amira and Duncan clash, she is surprised to feel a simmering attraction for him. How can she be interested in someone who doesn't get her, or her family's culture? This is not a complication she needs when her future is at stake. But when intolerance rears its ugly head and people who are close to Amira get hurt, she learns that there is more to Duncan than meets the eye. Now she must decide what she is willing to fight for. In the end, it may be that this small-town singer is the only person who sees her at all.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; East Indian Canadian women; Man-woman relationships; Women engineers; Barbershop quartets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wingfield's inferno [videorecording] / by Beattie, Douglas,1954-; Beattie, Rod,1948-; Erlich, Alan.; Needles, Dan.; Douglas Beattie Theatrical Productions.;
Music: Stephen Woodjetts.Rod Beattie.Recorded live at Pie in the Sky Studio, Toronto, December 2005.The 6th in a series of plays about stockbroker-turned-farmer. Walt Wingfield features Baby Hope's first word, a racehorse that won't wear a bridle and a scheme to rebuild the community hall in Larkspur.PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Canadian wit and humor; Television comedies.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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