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Author
Series
John Cardinal series volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the body of a supposed thirteen-year-old runaway and the disappearance of another youngster in the rural town of Algonquin Bay force local cops John Cardinal and his new partner, Lisa Delorme, into a desperate search for a possible serial killer.
5) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
"Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison...
7) Unless
Author
Language
English
Description
For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Reena Manji doesn't love her career, her single status, and most of all, her family inserting themselves into every detail of her life. But when caring for her precious sourdough starters, Reena can drown it all out. At least until her father moves his newest employee across the hall--with hopes that Reena will marry him. But Nadim's not like the other Muslim bachelor-du-jours that her parents have dug up. If the Captain America body and the British...
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Language
English
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"As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While...
10) Except the dying
Author
Series
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that more than one person connected with the girl's simple life has something to hide.
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Attracted to an artists' colony on a drought-stricken honey farm where residents are offered free room and board in exchange for hard labor, a wide-eyed poetry graduate falls for a fellow artist and begins to notice tensions linked to ominous events and her hostess's past.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
14) The night bell
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Night Bell moves between the past and the present in Port Dundas, Ontario, as two mysteries converge. A discovery of the bones of murdered children is made on land that was once a county foster home. Now it's being developed as a brand new subdivision whose first residents are already railing against broken promises and corruption. But when three of these residents are murdered after the discovery of the children's bones, frustration turns to...
15) Blood is the sky
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a long drive north. Alex's friend Vinnie has a brother who works as a hunting guide for the rich. But Vinnie's brother and his most recent group have vanished in northern Ontario and Vinnie is scared enough to ask Alex to find them. This sets in motion a lethal series of events, events that could end Alex's life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical...
17) Tell: a novel
Author
Series
Deafening novels (Frances Itani) volume 2
Publisher
Black Cat, imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The international debut sensation Deafening launched the story of Grania, deaf from the age of five, and her sister Tress, who helped to create their secret language. Tell picks up from the return of the sisters' husbands from the war, and follows Tress's partner Kenan, a young shell-shocked soldier who confines himself indoors, venturing outside only at night to visit the frozen bay where he skated as a boy. Saddened by her altered marriage, Tress...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"El aclamado primer libro de relatos de la Nobel de Literatura, ganador del Governor General's Award. La magia de Alice Munro, que han invocado tantos escritores y cr�iticos literarios, con la que ha llenado de luz las vidas, los sentimientos y los di�alogos m�as cotidianos, y que ha hecho de ella la mejor cuentista de la literatura contempor�anea, ganadora del Nobel y del Booker, ya estaba totalmente afianzada en el primero de sus catorce...
19) Fire song
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves--his friend, David. Things go from...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"When seventeen-year-old aspiring designer Tahira Janmohammad's coveted fashion internship falls through, her parents have a Plan B. Tahira will work in her aunt's boutique in the small town of Bakewell, the flower capital of Ontario. It's only for the summer, and she'll get the experience she needs for her college application. Plus her best friend is coming along. It won't be that bad. But she just can't deal with Rowan Johnston, the rude, totally...
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