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Teen health expert Meg Meeker, M.D., documents the powerful influence dads have on daughters. The most crucial factor for girls…
growing up into confident, well-adjusted women is a strong father with conservative values. Such fathers preempt eating disorders, failing grades, STDs, unwed pregnancy, and substance abuse - and promote academic achievement, successful marriage, and a satisfying emotional life. 2007.
After a series of bizarre events, ironworker Mick Brannigan finds himself knee-deep in laundry - and considering a retreat to…
his hopelessly littered kitchen. He soon learns important lessons from unlikely sources. 2007.
Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally.…
Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers' Club. The two fell immediately in love and conceived a son before Arthur was whisked away by the military during WWI. Though Arthur would only see Masa little, he supported his Japanese family and kept alive the hope that he and Masa could live together blissfully. 2006.
Lyle Johnson, a successful yet naive Wall Street investment banker, seems to have found an ideal partner in Tess Aventura…
Dubois. She is a wealthy widow who has just moved back to New York City with enough cash to make his bar a happening night spot. But behind her glamorous facade lies a disturbing secret that could be Lyle's downfall: Tess was formerly known on the streets of New York as Tyrone, a scheming, cross-dressing small-time crook. 2005.
Sales executive Chantell Meyers has life all figured out. "People treat you better when they think you have money, or…
are beautiful." Chantell has it all, too - a great career, beautiful clothes, lots of spending money, a cool car, and a picture-perfect fiancé. So why is she so unhappy? She promises God that she will become a better person as her father lays on his deathbed. But, keeping that promise unravels Chantell's seemingly perfect life. 2004.
The holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery owner Hannah Swensen. Surrounded by her loved ones, she has…
all the ingredients for a perfect Christmas--until murder is added to the mix. Includes recipes. 2004.
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England - pulling a…
sword from a stone - but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first. Junior High. 2003.
Afraid of getting maimed for making fun of Brick, the husky new kid in his fifth-grade class, Nick decides that…
even his baseball collection will not protect him so he signs up for karate class, despite his little brother's reassurances that Brick is not a bully. Grades 4-7. 2004.
Eight years ago, the three teenaged McKenna sisters, Kate, Ashley, and Caroline, became famous by winning an arduous, around-the-world sailboat…
race. Driven hard by their ambitious father, the three young women faced months of intense emotional strain and physical hardship and persevered. But the cost of their tremendous victory didn't come cheap. 2003.
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be…
stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected. For junior high readers. 1998.
As his final year of high school crawls to an end, Jacob receives a postcard with a picture of Tokyo's…
skyline on the front. On its flipside are two simple words: "I'm sorry." Although it's unsigned, Jacob immediately knows who sent it. There's no doubt it's from his best friend, Ichiro, who abruptly moved to Japan with his mother before they started high school. Jacob couldn't blame them for packing up and moving. He wished he could've done the same. The summer vacation before high school should have been filled with fun and relaxation, but instead it was plagued by tragedy. What follows is Jacob's account of that terrifying summer. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.
When a shipwrecked stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he…
was something more than human. He said his name was Turner Pascal--but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck. This man only held the remainder of Pascal's consciousness in a technologically-enhanced humanoid body. He was, in fact, an experiment by the notorious criminal Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. Charon has been secretly copying human minds into android brains, with plans to make his own army of slaves. Followed by "Alpha". 2007.
In Rachel Heng's debut audiobook set in near future New York City, where lives last three hundred years and the…
pursuit of immortality is all-consuming, Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever, if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange, where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold, she has a beautiful apartment, and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die. But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead choose to live and die on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she has left in the world. 2018.
Olivia Abbott is a cheerleader - pretty clothes, pretty hair and pretty perfect. Ivy Vega is definitely not the cheerleading…
type - black clothes, black eyeliner, pale skin. In fact she seems the exact opposite of Olivia - or she would be if she wasn't her twin! Meeting for the first time since being separated at birth, Olivia is about to discover that her long lost sister may just have some skeletons in her closet. Grades 4-7. 2009.
Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures. In the first story, Narwhal reveals…
his superhero alter-ego and enlists Jelly to help him figure out what his superpower is. Next, Narwhal uses his superpower to help a friend find his way back home. In the third story, Jelly is feeling blue and Narwhal comes to the rescue. Grades K-3. Sequel to "Narwhal: Unicorn of the sea". 2017.
For 50 years, Montréal was the jazz centre of Canada. Gilmore chronicles the lives of Montréal's jazz musicians, and describes…
the Montréal jazz scene and the environment in which musicians lived and played. 1988.
Stanley Hastings, New York private detective, is hired by Maxine Winnington, wife of bestselling author Kenneth Winnington, to find out…
who's been calling her with death threats. During the investigation, Kenneth's ex-publisher and his current publicist are murdered. Hastings becomes a suspect - until his family is also threatened. Some violence and some strong language. 1998.