After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto, rooting out petty criminals and rumrunners. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his...
Ontario--Toronto
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Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary: -
Author:Round, JeffreySummary:Private investigator Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer. Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end....
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Author:Leclair, DidierSummary:« Sarah boit son thé calmement et remonte une mèche de cheveux d’un geste distrait. — Tu es vraiment gentille d’avoir bravé la pluie, lui dis-je de nouveau. — C’est normal. Il m’aurait demandé pourquoi on va pas voir papi. Il s’est...
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Author:Ross, StuartSummary:Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew
A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of...
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Author:Fleming, R. B.Summary:Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning...
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Author:Draper, PennySummary:Jack Gordon and Henry Addison meet when the Great Lakes cruise ship, the Noronic, docks at Ward Island, just before the ship catches fire - with Henry on board.
Two young teens, Jack Gordon and Henry Addison, meet when the Great...
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Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary:This double edition of the Paul Shenstone Mystery series presents Mel Bradshaw's original hit novel and its just-released sequel. Surviving the horrors of the Great War only be plunged into the machinations of rumrunners and plutocrats...
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Author:Waxman, SydellSummary:Dora's father owns a dressmaking shop in the bustling garment district of Toronto in the 1940s. Every day after school, 10-year-old Dora runs to help her father in the shop. As she works, she dreams of being a designer herself and...
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In 1793, John Graves Simcoe established a plot of land along the shores of Lake Ontario as the site for the new capital of Upper Canada, which he named York. This engaging popular history provides a comprehensive overview of the early...
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Author:Yee, PaulSummary:An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book. Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of...
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Depuis les six dernières années, Sophie Kandinsky tente de garder secrète sa vie familiale. Mais le diable se cache dans les détails. Premier détail: son excentrique mère bulgare plus vraie que nature. Deuxième détail, légèrement plus...
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Author:Rehner, JanSummary:Who is the mysterious woman in the Matisse drawing, Woman in a Blouse, Dreaming? What secrets is she hiding? Chloe Rea grew up with the Matisse sketch and believes the woman in the famous Rumanian blouse is her grandmother. But the...
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Author:Filey, MikeSummary:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
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Author:Filey, MikeSummary:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
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Author:Filey, MikeSummary:Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an...
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
La vie est presque… disons… potentiellement parfaite pour Sophie Kandinsky. Il s’avère en effet que les Blondes ont été tout aussi éblouies par elle que celle-ci par ces dernières. Sophie entre en dixième année au collège Northern...
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Author:Wright, EricSummary:Presenting the first two novels of the Lucy Trimble series by award-winning author Eric Wright, in a definitive ebook bundle. Lucy Trimble is a former bed and breakfast proprietor from rural Ontario turned private investigator in...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing. The...
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Author:Moss, JohnSummary:Intrigued by the unlikely invitation from a detective in Vienna to prove she murdered her lover, Harry Lindstrom finds himself in a strained alliance with a woman who seems to have stepped out of a painting by Klimt. His chaotic pursuit...
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Having retreated to the idyllic Polynesian island of Bora Bora to savour and lament the lost past, Harry Lindstrom finds himself drawn into a strange relationship with a raven-haired, B-list movie actress and her invalid husband. Harry...
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