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- Torn apart : the internment diary of Mary Kobayashi / by Aihoshi, Susan M.;
The diary of twelve-year-old Mary Kobayashi, a Japanese Canadian girl living in British Columbia, describing her experiences during World War II, including her family's relocation to an internment camp.LSC- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Diary fiction.; Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians;
- © c2012., Scholastic Canada,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The gathering / by Armstrong, Kelley.;
LSC- Subjects: Occult fiction.; Teenage girls; Supernatural; Human-animal relationships; Families;
- © c2011., Doubleday Canada,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The glass hotel / by Mandel, Emily St. John,1979-author.;
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, the story moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Hotels; Missing persons; Ponzi schemes;
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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- Creep / by Greenaway, R. M.,author.;
"It seems the October rains have brought death and disaster to North Vancouver. A missing hiker is found by his son and daughter - was he frightened to death? - on an old-growth trail in the Lynn Headwaters park; a foul smell leads to a mauled body in a crawl space; and a small boy is attacked and bitten by a man in wolf form. Yet it is only the beginning of the mayhem the North Shore RCMP will have to deal with before winter sets in. Once an up-and-coming Serious Crimes investigator, these days Constable Cal Dion is back on general duties, feeling out-of-the-loop and rebellious. On a routine canvassing task, he finds himself questioning a most attractive witness, one he feels is peripheral enough to the crawl space case that he would be safe in asking her out. Of course, it's the worst decision ... Meanwhile Constable David Leith is in the thick of the same investigation, a case complicated by rumours running wild and a most elusive suspect. Halloween has brought out the ghouls for Leith and his team ... and possibly a shapeshifter as well, with murder on its mind."--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Murder;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The calling / by Armstrong, Kelley.;
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- Subjects: Young adult fiction.; High schools; Human-animal relationships; Schools; Supernatural; Witchcraft;
- © c2012., Doubleday Canada,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Gold medal diary : inside the world's greatest sports event / by Wickenheiser, Hayley,1978-;
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- Subjects: Wickenheiser, Hayley, 1978-; Winter Olympic Games 2010 : Vancouver, B.C.); Women hockey players;
- © c2010., Greystone Books,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Junie / by Knight, Chelene,1981-author.;
"A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood--once gushing with potential--begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves. Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent--not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within."--- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Mothers and daughters; Women, Black;
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- Far Creek Road : a novel / by Krueger, Lesley,author.;
"Innocence confronts suburban secrets during a modern witch hunt. It's 1961, and Mary Alice (Tink) Parker is 10 years old. She lives with her parents in a Vancouver suburb where many fathers are traumatized veterans of the Second World War and almost all the mothers are housewives. They believe they've earned secure and prosperous lives after the sacrifices they made during the war. But under the conformist veneer seethe conflicts and secrets that make the serenity of Grouse Valley precarious. The story of the unraveling of the neighborhood is told by Tink, an eccentric child who is funny, observant, and impossibly nosy, with a tendency to blurt whatever's on her mind. Bucolic at first, the story darkens as McCarthy-era paranoia infects the adults and spills over into the lives of the children. The parents of Tink's best friend Norman are schoolteachers with leftist beliefs. When the Cuban Missile Crisis threatens, Norman's parents face a witch hunt while the boy becomes a target of bullies. Tink does her best to defend Norman. But as she looks for help, Tink stumbles on a web of secrets -- including evidence of a torrid affair -- that will change their lives forever."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Neighborhoods; Paranoia; Persecution; Political persecution; Secrecy;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The lost ones / by Kamal, Sheena,author.;
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- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Women private investigators; Missing persons; Birthparents; Adoptees;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Dodger boy / by Ellis, Sarah.;
An American draft dodger turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family.LSC- Subjects: Draft resisters; Quakers; Interpersonal relations in adolescence;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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