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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Mira Achary''s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care and longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to parent. As much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her. Only when Mira is older does she realizes a truth she has been missing all along: though her family's experience may be unusual, what holds them together is universal.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives. A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother?s attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca?s psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead-end telemarketing job. Pagé weaves together narratives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in a novel that echoes the works of Lynda Barry.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. It's July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Caf , which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A woman vanishes from a cafe in a northern town and all the witnesses have different accounts. Local police officer Alice Morrow and former New York homicide detective Hugh Mercer, troubled by their own need for forgiveness and justice, uncover a bizarre crime.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A woman vanishes from a cafe in a northern town and all the witnesses have different accounts. Local police officer Alice Morrow and former New York homicide detective Hugh Mercer, troubled by their own need for forgiveness and justice, uncover a bizarre crime.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Caf , which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. The Compassionate Imagination is a radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in a modern democracy an inspirational, aspirational blueprint for a Canadian Cultural Contract that reawakens our instincts for empathy and kindness, and integrates the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu?Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who ? despite being convinced she?s a little ?off? ? must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin?s granddaughter. Each one of Celia?s family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin?s granddaughter. Celia?s Song relates one Nuu?Chahlnuth family?s harrowing experiences over several generations, after the brutality, interference, and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Mira Achary''s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care and longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to parent. As much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her. Only when Mira is older does she realizes a truth she has been missing all along: though her family's experience may be unusual, what holds them together is universal.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives. A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother?s attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca?s psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead-end telemarketing job. Pagé weaves together narratives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in a novel that echoes the works of Lynda Barry.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Ever?s father passes away suddenly, she is devastated. Not long after that, her mom has a stroke and Ever?s anguish becomes almost too much for her to handle. That?s when she gets the idea to form a group she calls Boys and Girls Screaming. Along with her brother, Jericho, and her best friend, Candace, Ever wants to bring together kids from their school who have suffered trauma so they can share their stories and begin to heal. Although the other teens find solace in the group, Ever tumbles further into depression until she reaches a breaking point. As the group learns the true source of Ever?s pain, they jump into action to help her find a way out. Boys and Girls Screaming tells the story of a generation of teens finding the support they need to process their trauma in their own ways. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Suspicious of her neighbour Beatrice?s untimely death, Ruth Mornay teams up with Bea?s godson Saul to figure out what happened that night on the flooded banks of the Teeswater River. Ruth, Saul, and Ruth?s pet chicken Dorcas scour the box of seemingly random junk that Bea left behind for clues.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Winner of the 22nd Hackmatack Children?s Choice Book Award ? English Fiction The comfortable life of Pickles, the calico housecat, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn?t know where her ?pet? ? human child Connor ? has gone, only that there are zombies everywhere. Determined to find Connor, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies, street cats from the wrong side of the track, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A woman vanishes from a cafe in a northern town and all the witnesses have different accounts. Local police officer Alice Morrow and former New York homicide detective Hugh Mercer, troubled by their own need for forgiveness and justice, uncover a bizarre crime.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A woman vanishes from a cafe in a northern town and all the witnesses have different accounts. Local police officer Alice Morrow and former New York homicide detective Hugh Mercer, troubled by their own need for forgiveness and justice, uncover a bizarre crime.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. It's July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Caf , which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Caf , which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly completely unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Winter 1979. Twelve-year-old Truly has settled in with Andy El at Eagle Shores Trailer Park, but the peace of her new life is shattered when her mother unexpectedly returns after abandoning Truly the previous summer, asking for a second chance. Has her mother really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But eleven-year-old Truly knows Elvis is alive and well and living in her trailer park. It's a busy summer. Though Truly's mother is constantly drinking, smoking and juggling new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise money for herself through her lemonade stand and to prove that her cool new neighbor is the King of Rock 'n' Roll. And when she can't find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park and is a connection to Truly's own Indigenous roots.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive.…

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. The Compassionate Imagination is a radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in a modern democracy an inspirational, aspirational blueprint for a Canadian Cultural Contract that reawakens our instincts for empathy and kindness, and integrates the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu?Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who ? despite being convinced she?s a little ?off? ? must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin?s granddaughter. Each one of Celia?s family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin?s granddaughter. Celia?s Song relates one Nuu?Chahlnuth family?s harrowing experiences over several generations, after the brutality, interference, and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When Ever?s father passes away suddenly, she is devastated. Not long after that, her mom has a stroke and Ever?s anguish becomes almost too much for her to handle. That?s when she gets the idea to form a group she calls Boys and Girls Screaming. Along with her brother, Jericho, and her best friend, Candace, Ever wants to bring together kids from their school who have suffered trauma so they can share their stories and begin to heal. Although the other teens find solace in the group, Ever tumbles further into depression until she reaches a breaking point. As the group learns the true source of Ever?s pain, they jump into action to help her find a way out. Boys and Girls Screaming tells the story of a generation of teens finding the support they need to process their trauma in their own ways. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. ?Details about the space station come alive as the story unfolds. A fun read and the 27 chapters move along at a quick pace. A perfect addition to the middle grade shelves.? ? Greg Pattridge, Always in the Middle? A spot on the International Space Station (ISS) has opened up, and Mortimer, is not about to miss his chance to become an intergalactic space rat. And that?s just the first step in his master plan to prove that rats are much better suited than humans for a future mission to Mars. He packs his camera and prepares to take to the internet with his evidence of rat superiority. But when Mortimer?s schemes go awry, he is forced to face new truths about dreams, friendship, and choosing the right thing to do. Maybe not everything is a rat race.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive.…