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  • The secret of the stone house : Secret series, book 2
    Author:
    Silverthorne, Judith
    Summary:

    12-year-old Emily travels back in time again in this sequel, to discover a secret locked in her grandmother's soon-to-be-sold stone house.

    Twelve-year-old Emily Bradford travels back in time to discover a secret about her...
  • The secret of the village fool
    Author:
    Upjohn, Rebecca
    Summary:

    Based on a true story. Milek and his brother, Munio, live in a sleepy village in Poland. Anton, an odd neighbour, speaks to animals, feeds the flies, and only eats vegetables, so most people call him the village fool. When the war...
  • The Secrets We Keep
    Author:
    Loughead, Deb
    Summary:

    First she blamed herself. Now she doesn’t know who to trust. When Kit disappeared at a party and was found drowned in the quarry the next day, Clem knew who to point the finger at: herself. She was the last person to see him alive, the...
  • The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore Open and Degrees of Nakedness
    Author:
    Moore, Lisa, Urquhart, Jane
    Summary:

    Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively commonplace backdrops — a St. John's hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack...
  • The setting lake sun
    Author:
    Leveille, J. R.
    Summary:

    Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in an art gallery she meets Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. He will change Angèle's life and her way of looking at the world forever.
  • The seven sequels bundle
    Author:
    Orca Book Publishers
    Summary:

    The bestselling Seven (the series) continues with The Seven Sequels! All seven authors from the original series will return October 1, 2014 with a second set of seven novels. Eric Walters, John Wilson, Ted Staunton, Richard Scrimger,...
  • The several lives of Orphan Jack
    Author:
    Ellis, Sarah, St-Aubin, Bruno
    Summary:

    Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. For young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble. He has skipped over trouble, danced around...
  • The sex life of the amoeba
    Author:
    Healey, Barry
    Summary:

    A novel about passions -- a passion for sex, a passion for America, and a passion for movie-making. Sarah Fielding wants to turn the great Canadian novel into a ‘quality' movie, but the sex-mad producer, the deluded Hollywood star, and...
  • The shade
    Author:
    Denman, K. L.
    Summary:

    Safira doesn't believe in ghosts, but the girl in her cabin at camp was not a living person, so what was she? Her friend Trinity is convinced Safira's seen a ghost and sets out to discover who the ghost girl is. Safira is too busy...
  • The shadow killer
    Author:
    Bowen, Gail
    Summary:

    It's Father's Day weekend—a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners. For years Charlie has been alienated from his father—a retired politician who was always...
  • The shaman's apprentice
    Author:
    Kunuk, Zacharias
    Summary:

    . . . tells the story of a young shaman in training who must face her first test--a trip to the underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Facing dark spirits and...
  • The sharing circle
    Author:
    Meuse, Theresa, Stevens, Arthur
    Summary:

    Matthew loves to play games with his friends and share his toys with them. But most of all he loves to share the special treasures that remind him of his First Nations culture. Perhaps his favourite treasure is the medicine pouch that...
  • The shepherd's granddaughter
    Author:
    Carter, Anne Laurel
    Summary:

    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Society of School Librarians International Best Book Award and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book. Ever since she was a little girl, Amani...
  • The shining fragments
    Author:
    Blackburn McBride, Robin
    Summary:

    The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early...
  • The shining world
    Author:
    McDonnell, Kathleen
    Summary:

    Sixteen-year-old Peggy has gone north to plant trees for the summer. On a visit to a petroglyph site, she is abruptly transported to Notherland, an imaginary world she created when she was seven. There, she learns that Mi, a spirit-...
  • The Shiva
    Author:
    Tregebov, Michael
    Summary:

    Failures in business and marriage tip poor Mooney into a spell in a psychiatric ward. But he has the great fortune of befriending an Indian seer, one of his pals from the casino where Mooney hangs out, who promises to put Mooney's life...
  • The shore girl electronic resource : a novel
    Author:
    Kimmel, Fran
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice Award Rebee Shore's life is fragmented. She's forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth. The Shore Girl follows Rebee from...
  • The Show that Smells
    Author:
    McCormack, Derek
    Summary:

    The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen! It’s also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a...
  • The Sicilian wife : a novel
    Author:
    Edwards, Caterina
    Summary:

    Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a new life in Canada, she is betrayed and then her husband is murdered on the Sicilian coast. The police...
  • The sign on my father's house
    Author:
    Moore, Tom
    Summary:

    "Felix, you are a dreamer. I used to be, too, but there's no payoff in it.' Felix Ryan, from Curlew, Conception Bay, has been in love with the enigmatic Ellen Monteau ever since the day he met her in school at Smallwood...

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