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Time of the child / by Williams, Niall,1958-author.;
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love - and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy's lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter's lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever. Set over the course of one December in the same village as Williams' beloved This Is Happiness, Time of the Child is a tender return to Faha for readers who know its charms, and a heartwarming welcome to new readers entering for the very first time.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Abandoned children; Fathers and daughters; Physicians; Small cities;
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We are all guilty here [text (large print)] : a novel / by Slaughter, Karin,1971-author.;
"The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls-a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it's personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help-and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Missing persons; Murder; Policewomen; Secrecy; Small cities;
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111 places in Winnipeg that you must not miss / by Janke, Donna,author.; Ouskun, Gindalee,photographer.;
"Winnipeg, a big city with a small-town spirit, is diverse, full of history, and culturally rich. This guide takes you beyond the usual and well-known landmarks and deep into the heart of the city. Take a bison safari and imagine these enormous beasts thundering across the open prairie centuries ago. Visit the site where bison and fur traders once crossed a treacherous river. Walk through an abandoned monastery. Enjoy a mix of old and new in a campus building featuring century-old storefronts or a restaurant built around an old pumping station. Get a medium reading in a house with an intriguing paranormal history. Find high-quality Indigenous art and a modern bistro rooted in traditional First Nations cuisine. Discover the creative, unpretentious, resilient, and often quirky nature of The Peg in 111 new ways."--
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
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A lonesome place for dying : a novel / by Chase, Nolan,author.;
The town's new chief of police, Ethan Brand, receiving threats on his first day on the job, is faced with the first homicide case Blaine, Washington, has seen in years and with no one to trust, must find the killers and bring them to justice before anyone else winds up dead.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Police chiefs; Secrecy; Small cities;
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An unlasting home : a novel / by Al-Nakib, Mai,1970-author.;
"In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother's sudden death eleven years earlier. Her main companions are her grandmother's talking parrot, Bebe Mitu; the family cook, Aasif; and Maria, her childhood ayah and the one person who has always been there for her. Sara's relationship with Kuwait is complicated; it is a country she always thought she would leave, and a country she recognizes less and less, and yet a certain inertia keeps her there. But when teaching Nietzsche in her Intro to Philosophy course leads to an accusation of blasphemy, which carries with it the threat of execution, Sara realizes she must reconcile her feelings and her place in the world once and for all. Interspersed with Sara's narrative are the stories of her grandmothers: beautiful and stubborn Yasmine, who marries the son of the Pasha of Basra and lives to regret it, and Lulwa, born poor in the old town of Kuwait, swept off her feet to an estate in India by the son of a successful merchant family; and her two mothers: Noura, who dreams of building a life in America and helping to shape its Mid-East policies, and Maria, who leaves her own children behind in Pune to raise Sara and her brother Karim and, in so doing, transforms many lives. Ranging from the 1920s to the near present, An Unlasting Home traces Kuwait's rise from a pearl-diving backwater to its reign as a thriving cosmopolitan city to the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. At once intimate and sweeping, personal and political, it is an unforgettable epic and a spellbinding family saga."--
Subjects: Feminist fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cultural property; Families; Women, Arab;
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Your name [videorecording] / by Kamiki, Ryūnosuke,1993-voice actor.; Kamishiraishi, Mone,voice actor.; Narita, Ryo,voice actor.; Shimazaki, Nobunaga,voice actor.; Shinkai, Makoto,film director.; FUNimation Productions, Ltd,publisher.;
Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Kanon Tani.Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's films.; Animated films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Role reversal; Strangers;
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Savage Sunday / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Scottish cattleman Duff MacCallister staked a claim for his life in America--and reserves a righteous anger for those who break the law in this smoking six-gun shootout. Thanks to a new line, the railroad has come to Chugwater, Wyoming, bridging the gap between the small town and the larger city of Cheyenne. Now Duff MacCallister can transport his 250 Black Angus cattle herd with ease by Iron Horse instead of enduring a two-day traildrive. But the day after depositing $15,000 in his Cheyenne account, Duff learns that bank president Jeremy Brinks embezzled every cent--totalling $65,000--and then guilt-ridden, committed suicide. Jeremy wasn't just Duff's banker, but his longtime friend. The widow Brinks doesn't believe her husband was a thief or that he killed himself. Duff agrees. And after getting an appointment as Territorial Marshal, he's aiming his barrel at putting every double-crossing lawman, red-handed outlaw, and corrupt businessmen he can rustle up behind bars--or six feet under...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Bankers; Wrongful death; Farmers; Cowboys;
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Your name [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Kamiki, Ryūnosuke,1993-voice actor.; Kamishiraishi, Mone,voice actor.; Narita, Ryo,voice actor.; Shimazaki, Nobunaga,voice actor.; Shinkai, Makoto,film director,screenwriter.; FUNimation Productions, Ltd,publisher.;
Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Kanon Tani.Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (16:9 aspect ratio) ; Dolby TrueHD 5.1.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Role reversal; Strangers;
For private home use only.
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Swept away : Ruth Mornay and the unwanted clues / by Hyde, Natalie.;
"Unlike the rest of the people in her small town, Ruth Mornay does not believe that the death of her sixty-four-year-old neighbour Beatrice was an accident. Word has it that Bea was swept away by the flooded Teeswater River, but Bea was the head of the Teeswater River Embankment Rehabilitation Society, so Ruth knows her friend would never be so careless. Bea's godson Saul adds to Ruth's suspicions when he claims that Bea had premonitions about her murder and has left Ruth a box of clues to figure out what really happened. But what could a frog-shaped sprinkler, a mismatched pair of ladies' gloves, and an ugly flower picture made of human hair possibly have to do with Bea's death? That's the case Saul, Ruth, and Ruth's wayward pet chicken Dorcas, have to crack."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Child detectives; Small cities;
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Farm to trouble / by Flower, Amanda.;
"First in a new series! Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found dead at the farmers market not long after the contract is signed, a contract that the whole town knows her father was wholeheartedly against. Now, Shiloh must clear her family's name and track down the real killer before her farm dreams wilt before her very eyes. But with her father trying to stop any progress on his land, her cousin belittling her every effort, and the whole town believing her family at fault, Shiloh has to carry the investigation on her shoulders or risk all her dreams drying up before they begin" --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Farmers' markets; Family farms; Murder; Detective and mystery stories;
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