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3) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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"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...
Author
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...
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?
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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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...
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...
11) Fire song
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"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...
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