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Cat's Eye
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Margaret Atwood
The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics ...
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In the Skin of a Lion
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Michael Ondaatje
This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio.
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People of the Masks
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W Michael Gear
Archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of the adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home. This time the Gears begin in the northeastern region of North America known now ...
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Jalna
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Mazo De La Roche
In "Jalna", the unforgettable Whiteoak family makes its first appearance. Grandmother Adeline and Boney, her equally colourful parrot; Adeline's bachelor sons Nicholas and Ernest, daughter Lady Augusta, granddaughter Meg, and grandsons Renny, Piers, Eden, Finch and Wakefield. Renny, the red-haired eldest grandson, fiercely protects Jalna and all ...
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Broken
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Kelley Armstrong
In this thrilling new novel in the Women of the Otherworld series, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on 21st-century London---and may become his next target. Original.
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Whiteoak Heritage
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Mazo De La Roche
Published in 1940, "Whiteoak Heritage" chronicles the fortunes of the Whiteoak family after the Second World War. The drama continues at Jalna when Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still involved with an older woman.
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Crow Lake
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Mary Lawson
In a farming community in northern Ontario, zoologist Kate Morrison confronts her past as she grapples with her relationships with her three brothers, whom she has come to view as unsophisticated rural people, and generally struggles with issues of family and identity. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
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Stephen Williams, Steven Williams
The case was so bizarre and the media so ever-present that the Canadian government silenced its national press and barred foreign journalists from the trial of Paul and Karla Bernardo. The Bernardos' seemingly storybook marriage cloaked pure evil--the kidnapping, imprisonment, and murder of high school girls, all to satisfy the couple's sexual ...
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Lost
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Joy Fielding
When her 21-year-old daughter, Julia, disappears, Cindy Carver takes it upon herself to track down the spoiled and sometimes impetuous young woman. As Cindy searches for Julia, she discovers that her daughter has been leading a dark and dangerous life--and that Cindy herself might be in grave danger.
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Blood Debt
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Tanya Huff
Offering up an irresistible team of terror busters--Vicki, a female private eye who was until recently human; Mike, a Toronto homicide detective who is her ex-partner and current lover; and Henry, a vampire who writes bodice rippers--this book is a masterful blending of contemporary fantasy and the supernatural. Henry calls upon Vicki and Mike to ...
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Home from the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories
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Stuart McLean
Welcome to the Vinyl Cafe, where homespun stories are related with warmth, wit, and compassion by a popular Canadian radio storyteller.
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The stone carvers
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Jane Urquhart
Klara is a seamstress in a small Ontario village, but when her older brother disappears and her lover dies in World War I, she travels to Paris and learns to carve stone like her grandfather did, so that she can participate in the carving of a war memorial.
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The singing wilderness.
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Sigurd F. Olson
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness, he was known honorifically as the Bourgeois--as ...
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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
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Alan Taylor
By telling the dramatic story of a young Mohawk Indian, Joseph Brant, and a colonial contemporary, Samuel Kirkland, Taylor illuminates the Indians' role in shaping the post-Revolutionary War borderland of the United States and British Canada.
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Any known blood
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Lawrence Hill
Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acclaimed and unexpectedly funny novel is the story of a man seeking himself in the mirror of his family's past. There were Canes in Canada before the United States erupted into civil war. Their roots are deep, their legacy is rich, but Langston Cane V ...
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Unless
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Carol Shields
Reta Winters is a successful novelist, Tom is a doctor, and they've been living together for over 20 years. Life has been good until Reta's daughter Norah leaves home and becomes a street person in Toronto. Carol Shields's novel--which she claims will be her last (she was suffering from terminal cancer when she wrote it)--is about not only family ...
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Except the Dying
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Maureen Jennings
Detective William Murdoch investigates the particularly gruesome murders of several young women in 1890's Toronto.
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Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
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Ginger Strand
Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment, and ourselves.
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Under the Dragon's Tail
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Maureen Jennings
In this second novel by Maureen Jennings, following her critically acclaimed "Except the Dying", Detective William Murdoch returns to investigate another brutal murder in 1895 Toronto. "Here's a . . . novel that whets the appetite for more".--"Publishers Weekly".
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Through Black Spruce
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Joseph Boyden
This work from the author of "Three Day Road" finds Will Bird, a legendary Cree bush pilot, lying in a coma. His niece has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship.
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How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts
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Frances Densmore
Ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a wealth of material on nearly 200 plants used by Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses. 33 plates.
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Black Fly Season
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Giles Blunt
As did the two previous novels, the third John Cardinal rural police procedural gains inspiration from an actual case. A confused red-haired woman stumbles into a bar, her body marked all over by black-fly bites and the bullet lodged in her head robbing her of both memory and identity. Trying to discover who attempted to murder the woman, and why, ...
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By the Time You Read This
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Giles Blunt
In Blunt's most masterful and thrilling novel yet, Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife's tragic death.
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Blood Trail
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Tanya Huff
Ex-cop Vicki Nelson and vampire Henry Fitzroy are called on to save Canada's most endangered species: werewolves.
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Blood Lines: Victory Nelson Private Investigator: Otherworldly Crimes a Specialty
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Tanya Huff
Private investigator Vicki Nelson, vampire Henry Fitzroy, and police detective Mike Celluci are out to save Toronto from a killer mummy.
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