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  • Cave beneath the sea
    Author:
    Willett, Edward
    Summary:

    The fourth shard of Excalibur might come with a price Ariane doesn't want to pay: her mother.

    Seeking to recover the shards of King Arthur's sword Excalibur before Rex Major (the ancient sorcerer Merlin in a modern-day guise),...
  • Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine
    Author:
    Réhel, Jean-Christophe
    Summary:

    La route est longue d'un sous-sol de Repen­ti­gny jusqu'à la pla­nète Tatouine. Sur­tout si l'on passe par le Super C, Cen­tral Park et le sei­zième étage du CHUM. Mais, pour l'esprit obses­sif, rêveur et...
  • Cecilian Vespers: A Collins-Burke mystery, book 4
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers, and occasionally investigating murders himself. But he can't round up the usual suspects this time. The blood-drenched body of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned...
  • Celestial Bodies
    Author:
    Alharthi, Jokha, Booth, Marilyn
    Summary:

    In the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife...
  • Celia's song
    Author:
    Maracle, Lee
    Summary:

    Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.
  • Cellular
    Author:
    Schwartz, Ellen
    Summary:

    Brendan has it all-captain of the basketball team, good friends, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family -- until he is diagnosed with leukemia. Terrified and convinced that no one understands what he is going through, Brendan faces...
  • Celui qui avance avec la mort dans sa poche
    Author:
    Claudette Boucher
    Summary:

    Sophie Plourde, Trifluvienne d'origine, est une agente artistique bien connue. Ses activités professionnelles et celles de son mari, photographe animalier, amènent le couple aux quatre coins du monde. En plein coeur de juillet...
  • Cemetery of the Nameless
    Author:
    Blechta, Rick
    Summary:

    Victoria Morgan, violin virtuoso extraordinaire, and her devoted piano accompanist are on yet another European tour currently stopping in Vienna. While playing to a full house, Tory leaves the stage and disappears in the middle of this...
  • Cendrillon
    Author:
    Daniel Guay
    Summary:

    C'est à Florence que Daniel Guay fait la rencontre de la célèbre Cendrillon, celle-là même qui inspira à Charles Perrault le conte de la petite pantoufle de verre. Avec surprise, il apprend que la princesse souhaite briser...
  • Centenary at Jalna
    Author:
    de la Roche, Mazo
    Summary:

    First published in 1958, Centenary at Jalna brings us to 1953 when the Whiteoaks gather to mark the 100th anniversary of their estate. It has now been a century since Captain Philip and Adeline Whiteoak arrived in Canada and built their...
  • Centerville
    Author:
    Rud, Jeff
    Summary:

    In this high-interest sports novel, Jake Burnett must choose between advancing his basketball career and doing the right thing when he uncovers the truth about the prestigious Centerville Prep school.
  • Century
    Author:
    Smith, Ray
    Summary:

    The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa,...
  • Certainty
    Author:
    Thien, Madeleine
    Summary:

    Her parents' hidden past in wartorn Asia continues to shadow Gail Lim's life. When she meets a man who was a war photographer in Jakarta, she is brought closer to the truth she's been seeking. This is a story of the legacies of loss,...
  • Chai tea Sunday
    Author:
    Clark, Heather A.
    Summary:

    Thirtysomething Nicky Fowler has it all-- a rewarding career, a loving husband and the perfect home. But when she and her husband suffer a complicated tragedy, the strain of two people dealing with an impossible situation in different...
  • Chalk
    Author:
    Diaczuk, Doug
    Summary:

    "You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run into trouble with the cops, mourn a family tragedy, smoke hundreds of cigarettes,...
  • Chameleon
    Author:
    Serravalle, Dean
    Summary:

    What happens when the narrator is removed from a story? When the author’s real life is fictionalized instead, so that creator and creation relate on the same existential ground with no middleman? Chameleon (Days) is such an experiment...
  • Champions of the fox
    Author:
    Sands, Kevin
    Summary:

    In this conclusion to the thrilling Thieves of Shadow series, bestselling author Kevin Sands delivers a jaw-dropping heist that sees five young thieves masterminding a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress....
  • Chance and the butterfly
    Author:
    De Vries, Maggie
    Summary:

    Every time Chance turns around, he gets in trouble. In school, he can't sit still. Reading is hard and math is harder, but anything to do with science fascinates him. When his class starts raising butterflies from caterpillars, Chance...
  • Chanda's secrets
    Author:
    Stratton, Allan
    Summary:

    Chanda’s mother is not herself, her younger sister is acting out, and her best friend needs help. A powerful story set amid the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this sensitive, swiftly paced story, readers will find echoes of To Kill a...
  • Chaos in Halifax
    Author:
    Beveridge, Cathy
    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Jolene is determined to find independence from her brother, Michael, during a family trip to research the Halifax explosion of 1917 for her father's Museum of Disasters. When her grandfather finds a time crease into the...

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