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Author
Series
John Cardinal series volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
John Cardinal series volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
7) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
10) Deafening
Author
Series
Deafening novels (Frances Itani) volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Series
John Cardinal series volume 1
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
“One of the best novels of [the year]. . . Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent.” Tony Hillerman. “Forceful . . . surprising . . . [Blunts] insights into suffering and madness give his characters their true voice.” The New York Times. In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is quickly identified as Katie Pine, a teenager who had disappeared months ago. At the time, Detective...
13) Small ceremonies
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action.
15) The calling
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a terminally ill woman is found brutally murdered in her home, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef tracks a terrifying serial killer, who targets terminally ill victims whose bodies are found drained of blood with their mouths sculpted into strange shapes.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Attracted to an artists' colony on a drought-stricken honey farm where residents are offered free room and board in exchange for hard labor, a wide-eyed poetry graduate falls for a fellow artist and begins to notice tensions linked to ominous events and her hostess's past.
18) Sandcastle Beach
Author
Series
Matchmaker Bay volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To save her tiny, beloved community theater, Maya Mehta desperately needs to win Matchmaker Bay's new business grant, forcing her to compete against local bar owner Benjamin Lawson, who is also her annoyingly hot arch nemesis.
19) The night bell
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Night Bell moves between the past and the present in Port Dundas, Ontario, as two mysteries converge. A discovery of the bones of murdered children is made on land that was once a county foster home. Now it's being developed as a brand new subdivision whose first residents are already railing against broken promises and corruption. But when three of these residents are murdered after the discovery of the children's bones, frustration turns to...
20) Tell: a novel
Author
Series
Deafening novels (Frances Itani) volume 2
Publisher
Back Cat/Grove/Atlantic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The international debut sensation Deafening launched the story of Grania, deaf from the age of five, and her sister Tress, who helped to create their secret language. Tell picks up from the return of the sisters' husbands from the war, and follows Tress's partner Kenan, a young shell-shocked soldier who confines himself indoors, venturing outside only at night to visit the frozen bay where he skated as a boy. Saddened by her altered marriage, Tress...
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