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Shuggie Bain / by Stuart, Douglas,1976-author.;
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a "whoremaster" of a husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good-her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits-all the family has to live on-on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to look after her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. He is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her-even and especially her beloved Shuggie. A heartbreaking novel of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Children of alcoholics; Family secrets; Mothers and sons; Working class families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stella Bain : a novel / by Shreve, Anita.;
"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War neuroses; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Toronto Star cookbook : more than 150 diverse and delicious recipes : celebrating Ontario / by Bain, Jennifer.; Szulc, Ryan.;
LSC
Subjects: Cooking, Canadian; Cookbooks.;
© c2013., Appetite by Random House,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Les planètes / by Baines, Rebecca.; Barthélemy, Peggy.;
LSC
Subjects: Planètes; Planets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Un bain trop plein! / by Poulin, Andrée.; Delisle, Anne-Claire.;
LSC
Subjects: Bains; Faune marine; Calcul; Baths; Marine animals; Counting books.;
© c2014., Dominique et compagnie,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Margaret Truman's Allied in danger / by Bain, Donald,1935-2017,author.; Truman, Margaret,1924-2008,creator.;
David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in Nigeria. Their interconnected cases will take Brixton to Nigeria, into that country's Heart of Darkness and on one of the most violent and dangerous journeys of his life.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Murder;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Le Monstre du Bain / by Boyd, Colin,1978-; Ross, Tony.;
LSC
Subjects: Bains; Monstres; Préférences alimentaires; Vase (Dépôt); Baths; Monsters; Food preferences; Mud;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Savour : the flavour of Stratford / by Bain, Richard(Richard G.),1954-author,photographer.; Feore, Colm,author,writer of foreword.;
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Cooking; Cooking, Canadian.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nutshimit : un bain de forêt / by Mollen Dupuis, Melissa.; Gravel, Elise.;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Innu; Innu; Innu Indians; French language materials.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mouse with the question mark tail [sound recording] / by Peck, Richard,1934-; Bain, Russ.;
Read by Russ Bain.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; Buckingham Palace (London, England); Mice; Identity (Psychology); Social classes; Queens; Children's audiobooks.;
© p2013., Random House Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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