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Devious web : a novel / by Grandy, Shelley,author.;
When Tom Oliver, a successful Canadian entrepreneur, is offered millions from a Silicon Valley company for his data analytics business, he believes his only challenges as he considers the offer will be deciding on next steps for his company and reconciling with his aloof wife. What could possibly go wrong? Things escalate quickly when Tom is targeted by an unknown perpetrator and his inner circle of family and colleagues comes under scrutiny. Tom's friend, homicide detective Jason Liu, strives to keep Tom safe while he investigates to find the truth. Who would want to murder a well-liked tech CEO at the top of his game, and why? A progression of intriguing plot twists takes this bingeworthy thriller through business, politics, social media, interpersonal relationships, and even equestrian scenarios. When the dust has settled literally motivations become clear, and Tom discovers that while some relationships are worthy of long-term investment, others have expiration dates.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Businesspeople; Criminal investigation; Families; Secrecy; Threats;
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The summer of bitter and sweet / by Ferguson, Jen,1985-;
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him. While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't ignore her father forever"-- Publisher.LSC
Subjects: Best friends; Fathers and daughters; Identity (Psychology); Ex-convicts;
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The observer / by Endicott, Marina,1958-author.;
"A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared vocabulary to convey this rural reality, let alone police life. As Hardy disappears into long days at work, Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, the Observer. Interviewing people to compose a view of the town each week, she gathers knowledge of the community's surface joys and sorrows; meanwhile, Hardy is immersed in violence and loss, and Julia can only witness his increasing exhaustion. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it. Grounded in Marina Endicott's own experience in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, The Observer is an essential story from one of our most beloved storytellers. Endicott writes with the sure pacing and insight of a master novelist, piecing haunting details into a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life and law in a tightknit community."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; City and town life; Communities; Journalists; Married people; Police spouses;
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Silver repetition : a novel / by Wang, Lily,1997-author.;
"Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her undergraduate degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the beloved cousin she lost touch with back home. After Yuè Yuè receives a call from a girl making accusations, her date ghosts her. Meanwhile, her mother's illness advances like snow. On a walk in the woods, Yuè Yuè sees a little girl digging in the mud, but when she peeks behind the curtain of black hair, her own face haunts her. In endless perfect loops of memory and dream, loss and return, Silver Repetition tenderly illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language, culture, and relationships. In a moving reunion, Yuè Yuè's cousin comes to visit and everyone is caught, laughing, in the rain. Despite the weight of grief, isolation, and difference, even the most delicate family bonds can knit together tightly enough for the future to overcome the past."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Young women;
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The train / by Callaghan, Jodie,1984-; Lesley, Georgia.;
Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her conversations with survivors--including her own grandmother's experience at Indian day school, and memories shared with her by a man she interviewed by the train tracks that transported children to residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Jodie's story for The Train was first recognized as the winner of the Mi'gmaq Writer's Award in 2009, a contest organized by the Mi'gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat to encourage and develop Mi'gmaq storytellers.LSC
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Separation (Psychology); Off-reservation boarding schools; Indians of North America; Railroad trains;
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Elemental [videorecording] / by Athie, Mamoudou,1998-voice actor.; Del Carmen, Ronnie,voice actor.; Lewis, Leah,1996-voice actor.; McLendon-Covey, Wendi,1969-voice actor.; O'Hara, Catherine,voice actor.; Sohn, Peter,film director,screenwriter.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Voices: Wendi McLendon-covey, Catherine O'Hara, Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen.An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Four elements (Philosophy); Friendship; Fire; Water; Air; Stereotypes (Social psychology);
For private home use only.
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Noopiming : the cure for white ladies / by Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake,1971-author.;
"Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for "in the bush," and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie's 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. Set in the same place as Moodie's colonial memoir, this genre-fluid novel is offered as a cure for Moodie's racist treatment of Mississauga Nishnaabeg in her writing. The giant Sabe meditates on the gifts and challenges of their recent sobriety. Migrating geese make a case for coordinated formation as a way to get out of "one's own cycling head." Racoons turn Bougie Kwe's Zen-garden pond into their personal urban spa. This is a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits who are all busy with the daily labours of healing -- healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. These stories gather up tiny pieces, one at a time, as they slowly circle through the perspectives of different characters, in a breathtaking act of world-building that rewards patience and deep listening. This is the real world, the one where meaning accumulates through close observation and relationship. Enter and be changed."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Listening; Patience; Healing; Nature;
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The giver [videorecording] / by Bridges, Jeff,1949-; Holmes, Katie,1978-; Lowry, Lois.GiverVideorecording.; Monaghan, Cameron.; Rush, Odeya.; Skarsgård, Alexander.; Streep, Meryl.; Swift, Taylor,1989-; Thwaites, Brenton.; Tremblay, Emma.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Weinstein Company.;
Jeff Bridges, Odeya Rush, Emma Tremblay, Katie Holmes, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Taylor Swift, Cameron Monaghan, Brenton Thwaites.The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Control (Psychology); Dystopian films.; Dystopias; Feature films.; Memory; Science fiction films.; Secrets; Social control;
© 2014., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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The ones below [videorecording] / by Bin, Laura,actor.; Farr, David,film director,screenwriter.; Moore, Stephen Campbell,actor.; Morrissey, David,actor.; Poésy, Clémence,actor.; Magnet Releasing (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Bin.A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a boozy dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident. The new friends suddenly find themselves at odds and are forced to question how well they know their neighbors, in this psychological thriller.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.; for language, some sexuality and nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Fiction films.; Feature films.; Accidents; Friendship; Neighbors; Pregnant women;
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Finding Edward / by Murray, Sheila(Documentary filmmaker),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Cyril Rowntree, a mixed-race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfather die. Cyril arrives in Toronto and sets about earning a degree, works two jobs, and begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother's struggle to come to terms with the need to give up her mixed-race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his white father as a small child, Cyril feels a compelling connection to the boy and begins to look for the rest of Edward's story. As he searches, Cyril unearths hidden pieces of Canadian history and gradually gains the confidence to trust his own judgment"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Racially mixed people;
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