On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective...
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Author: Rendell, RuthSummary: - Author: Hall, ShyimaSummary:
Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved two hours away to Egypt's capitol city of Cairo to live with a...
- Author: Fitch, ShereeSummary:
A mother and her two children have fun riding the ferris wheel at an amusement park.
- Author: Asbenson, JenniferSummary:
Imagine... growing up in an abusive, unfinished geodesic dome home with no heat or running water, wearing the same clothes to school every day, and eating breakfast cereal with warm goat milk. In this whimsical, poetic, and gripping...
- Author: Kirkman, RobertSummary:
Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope...
- Author: Westover, TaraSummary:
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn...
- Author: Bernard, WendySummary:
"For the first time ever, a stitch dictionary that celebrates the multi-directional nature of knitting and provides instructions for knitting in four different directions."--Back cover.
- Author: Masters, Meg ; Zafar, SamraSummary:
"At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and...
- Author: Flanagan, RichardSummary:
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly...
- Author: AlbertaSummary:
The Libraries Act provides the legal framework for public library service in Alberta. It defines the public library as a municipal service. It provides for the establishment of municipal library boards which manage library service for...
- Author: Antrobus, RaymondSummary:
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The...
- Author: Barker, Teresa ; Twist, LynneSummary:
This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money - earning it, spending it, and giving it away - can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity....
- Author: Manthorpe, JonathanSummary:
Tells the story of Canada's failure to construct a workable policy towards the People's Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa's failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist...
- Author: Brand, DionneSummary:
A startlingly original work about the act of writing itself from Griffin Poetry Prize--winner Dionne Brand. An essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today, Dionne Brand returns with a work that...
- Author: Lleshanaku, LuljetaSummary:
Albania’s Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha’s autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was missing then, not only in her life but for...
- Author: Speck, W. A.Summary:
In 1688 the Catholic James II was removed from the throne and replaced by Protestant monarchs, first William III, and then Mary. The importance of this "glorious revolution," long seen as a crucial shift in Britain from...
- Author: Stone, TiffanySummary:
Humorous poems for children about colourful clothing, shoes, and even hair.
- Author: Kelly, CathalSummary:
"The most fascinating things about life are the banalities we so rarely discuss amongst ourselves but that we devote most of our energies to navigating. How did that day you've forgotten look? What did it feel like? Were you lonely? Did...
- Author: Robinson, EdenSummary:
In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And...
- Author: Lund, Gerald N.Summary:
A dramatic account of Christ's ministry, as seen through the eyes of those who would follow him. In Come Unto Me, volume 2 of the bestselling series The Kingdom and the Crown, Simeon of Capernaum wrestles with how to undo the...
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