An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular...
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Author: Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials -
Author: Jennings, MaureenSummary:
It's July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book’s...
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Author: Nicole, ChristopherSummary:
When an attempt is made to kidnap the only daughter of the Sultan of Kharram and his English wife, Jessica Jones of Special Branch is appointed to protect the girl. JJ soon finds her charge is...
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Author: Fforde, KatieSummary:It's not as if Nel hasn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in Paradise Fields and keeping track of her teenage daughter. But when her old friend Sir Gerald...
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Author: Mazza, DonnaSummary:Rosa longs for mystery, adventure, the exotic, and escape from small country-town Australia. Fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe, she arrives alone in Dubrovnik in the months...
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Author: Howard, AudreySummary:Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor, even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool, but they have each other - until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by...
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Author: Smith, WilburSummary:
A powerful man and a beautiful woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption as they attempt to save the native people and wildlife of Africa from extinction.
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Author: Smith, WilburSummary:
A sweeping drama that moves from the glitter of London society to the grandeur of Europe and the heat of Africa. Beautiful Isabella Courtney and her brothers are drawn into conflict with each...
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Author: Glass, CathySummary:
The story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her....
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Author: Chamberlain, LindySummary:
This is Lindy Chamberlain's autobiography in which she recounts her side of the events surrounding the disappearance of her daughter Azaria. She also deals with her subsequent trial and...
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Author: Costain, Thomas BSummary:
Series: The pageant of England, Volume 2. Roger Bacon, Simon de Montfort and others made the long reign of Henry III into a period of vital advance in science, politics and art.
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Author: Donaghy, BronwynSummary:
A young girl takes ecstasy pills at a party and dies as a result.
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Author: Fine, AnneSummary:
Lovers, colleagues, family -- Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a...
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Author: Francis, DickSummary:John Kendall agrees to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer. He wishes he hadn't when it takes all his ingenuity to avoid ending up dead in the seemingly innocent training...
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Author: Blackburn, EstelleSummary:
Story of WA man, John Button, who was sentenced in the 1960s for the murder of his girlfriend; the police were under great pressure at the time for a series of unresolved murders, many attributed...