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Speaking in the voice of her deceased father, Miriam Toews recounts his lifelong battle with depression that led to his…
eventual suicide. Mel Toews was a bubbly, creative and talkative teacher in Manitoba, who privately struggled with depression and personal torment. The author chronicles his experiences, as she imagines he would have told them.
Moloney, a loans officer at a bank, set up a fraudulent loan to cover his immediate gambling debts. Taking the…
money was too easy--by the time he was caught, he had embezzled millions of dollars, all lost at casinos and race tracks. Some strong language. 1987 winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award. Bestseller 1987.
Canada, under Harper, became a different sort of global citizen than before, one that occupied a new, unfamiliar position for…
this country--the odd man out. Deviating from the cross-party consensus of how Canada should govern itself outside its borders, Harper's leadership marked a turn from multilateralism, typified in his refusal to "go along to get along" on the world stage. This stance characterized Canadian relations with the United Nations and Canadian responses to political and military strife throughout the world. In the wake of Justin Trudeau's promise to return Canada to its pre-Harper state, this book examines Canada's global relations under Harper and their impact on the situation the Liberals have inherited. 2017.
In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war.…
While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. While many people then were engaged in dramatic, heroic war work, her diary is a tribute to the quiet areas of endurance and pleasures of discovery that also distinguished those years. 2003.
Convinced that she must find a better life, plucky Maggie walks out of her intolerable marriage and heads for the…
British Columbia interior to heal and restore her spirit. (Reissue). 1982, c1954. (New Canadian Library; 29)
Knowlton Nash relates how the Canadian broadcast media came to be. Nash, a newsman on CBC television for many years,…
tells the story of Canadian broadcasting via its many battles: public vs. commercial interests; radio vs. television as an advertisement revenue source; and cable vs. over-the-air transmission. 2001.
Sid Marty presents a collection of true Rock Mountain tales drawn on his own memories and those of friends and…
former colleagues. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove. 1999.
The Screech Owls hockey team is set to play at Madison Square Gardens when they uncover a terrorist plot to…
take place on New Year's Eve. Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 13)
In this well-paced mystery, set during a baseball strike, sports writer Kate Henry has time on her hands. The Toronto…
summer is heating up even more with protests over police racism. When a neighbourhood homeless woman goes missing, Kate investigates and discovers a part of her city that she never knew existed. 1995.
Originally published in 1972, Atwood's book redefined what made this country's literature unique in a landscape dominated by its British…
and American counterparts. She describes the struggle of local writers to survive this dominance, eventually asserting that there is a distinct Canadian literature, with its own preoccupations, themes, and ideas specific to its history, geopolitics, and landscape. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004, c1972.
An atmosphere of menace and mystery surrounds a young woman who returns with her lover and another couple to her…
childhood home, in search of her missing father and herself. Some strong language.
1813. Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy agree to sponsor Elizabeth's sister Kitty for a season in London. When Kitty meets Harry…
Dashwood, Darcy makes inquiries into Harry's character, but no sooner does he receive favourable answers than the suitor begins to behave most strangely. It's up to Darcy and Elizabeth to discover the cause of these aberrations, and see Kitty happily established. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005. (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery)
The Barringer family is happy in the Alaskan Territory. Confronted by an old flame, Leah realizes her feelings never went…
away and she is whisked away on an unforgettable journey. c2006.
Abandoned by her husband, a woman must try to make a living from the family mine so that she can…
remain in her home. Sequel to "The rose legacy", followed by "The tender vine". 2001.
Cupcake club member Riley Brown, who has found her bliss on Georgia's quiet Sugarberry Island after years of Chicago's city…
life, sets her sights on Quinn Brannigan, a bad boy author who she craves more than buttercream icing. Includes sex. c2012. (Cupcake Club romance ; 2)
When baker extraordinaire Leilani Tursdale left the bustle of New York City for Georgia's sleepy Sugarberry Island, she didn't expect…
her past to follow. Yet suddenly, her former boss, Baxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes, the man who taught her everything pastry, wants to film his hit cooking show in her tiny cupcakery. Lani's friends are convinced that this time around, Baxter is the missing ingredient in her recipe for happiness. But convincing Lani will be a job for Baxter himself. And he'll need more than black velvet frosting to sweeten the deal. 2012.
Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native…
Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become. c2011.
Everyone feels stressed. Everyone knows they should do something about it. But no one wants to be lectured. This book…
gives people the basic tools they need to slow down, breathe deep and enjoy everything life has to offer. Includes advice on and stories about work, home, kids, diet and dealing with the stress of loved ones. 2005.