A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre - in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer - as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of Palestinians.
Ontario--Toronto
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Author:Sherman, JasonSummary: -
Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary: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...
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Author:Roy, Anusree, Jones, ThomasSummary:Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall,...
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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...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
Jeff Nichols ' a man strong of conviction but weak of character ' is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work ' any kind of work ' and a way back into Ann Ryan's good graces. She waited for his return from prison but is quickly...
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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...
- Author:Peter, LorenzSummary:
Living in Toronto has its challenges, especially when duct tape-wielding landlords and ever-encroaching developers are involved. For Lenny, the antidote to the chaos at home is the realization of a dream: opening a used record store...
- Author:Jennings, MaureenSummary:
Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of the detective agency. Mrs. Jessop hires the newly promoted Private Investigator to inquire into the untimely death of...
- Author:Williams, IanSummary:
Ian Williams's Not Anyones Anything is a trio of trios: three sets of three stories, with three of those stories further divided into thirds. Mathematical, musical, and meticulously crafted, these stories play profoundly with form...
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Author:Bond, CathiSummary:When tragedy strikes, thirteen-year-old Maddy Barnes's life shatters. Torn from her family and village, she finds herself out on the mean streets of Toronto in the 1970s, a gritty twilight world of street kids, speed freaks, glam...
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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...
- Author:Fiennes-Clinton, RichardSummary:
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...
- Author:Jalaluddin, UzmaSummary:
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely...
- Author:Mootoo, ShaniSummary:
Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in Toronto, separated and his mother, Sid, vanished from his life. It was not until he was a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnected with his beloved parent, only...
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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...
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
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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