At nine years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines...
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Author: Keating, JessSummary:
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Author: Cook, MéiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Moderow, Debbie ClarkeSummary:
At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that's where she found herself when, less than 200 miles from the finish line, her dogs...
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Author: CLARK, SimonSummary:
At the end of The day of the Triffids, the hero, Bill Mason, his wife and baby son joins a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The night of the Triffids takes up the story thirty years later.
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Gallagher, JohnSummary:
Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest...
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Author: Bennett, JonathanSummary:
Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Author: Clarke, SusannaSummary:
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction