Lansens, Lori.
Summary: When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANBlunt, Giles.
Summary: Algonquin Bay is rocked by an unusual number of suicides, including the wife of Detective John Cardinal, but a string of hateful anonymous notes leads him to suspect that her death had been a homicide, despite the disbelief of his colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUBlunt, Giles.
Summary: Discovering a shooting attack that has completely eliminated a young woman's memory, detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme pursue leads in Algonquin Bay during the height of the black fly season in order to safeguard her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUPyper, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYPOppel, Kenneth
Summary: "Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OPPBuchanan, Cathy Marie.
Summary: The year is 1915, the dawn of the hydroelectric era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a life of comfort and ease as the younger daughter of the director of the Niagara Power company. But when a tragedy leaves her beautiful sister dead and her family disgraced, Bess's life is transformed beyond imagination."-Book Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUCUrquhart, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC URQBlunt, Giles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUJohnston, E. K.
Summary: This story of a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold is a perfect companion to Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. They've experienced the best of what their community has to offer, but they've seen the darker side too. Together, they've decided that it's time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENMahoney, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHRotenberg, Robert
Summary: It's just after Labour Day and the city is kicking back into gear. All eyes are on the hotly contested election for Toronto's next mayor and crime is the big issue. Greene is no stranger to the worst of what the city has to offer, but even he is unprepared for what happens next when he stumbles upon a horrific homicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCameron, Claire
Summary: "A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMJohnson, Terry Lynn
Summary: McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHReynolds, John (John Lawrence)
Summary: Escaping the pressures of big-city policing and memories of a bad marriage, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. The town's police force consists of Max, police constable and card-trick master Henry Wojack and 65-year-old Margie Burns, who handles office and jail duties. Max's biggest challenge is to overcome skepticism at her ability to deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYAubert, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBLittle, Jean
Summary: In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LITCole-Misch, Sally
Summary: "Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons' evening trills across the lake's many bays, every brush stroke of her brother's paintings celebrating their cherished place, and their grandfather's laughter as he welcomed neighbors to their annual Welsh harvest celebration. Theirs was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLHamilton, Steve
Summary: Investigating the disappearance of a hunting group in the woods of northern Ontario, Alex McKnight finds himself deep in the wilderness, lacking food and weapons and at the mercy of a killer who would prevent everyone's return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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Summary: When the body of a middle-aged woman is found frozen beside a canal towpath one winter's morning, it looks like a simple case of death by misadventure. But on closer inspection, marks on her neck and a piece of paper that has been carefully hidden inside her shoe point towards foul play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURLawson, Mary
Summary: The troubled relationship between two brothers--Arthur Dunn, the dutiful eldest son, and the mercurial, dangerous Jake--escalates when they are both drawn to a beautiful young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWHansen, Gary P.
Summary: It "tells the story of plane crash survivors in the stark winter wilderness of Northern Ontario, Canada. Against overwhelming odds, they struggle to over come their advertises, and hardships, with a little help from a friend"--P. 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Bow Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHarwood-Jones, Markus
Summary: "Charlie Dee is headed for burnout. They've been burned before, both by their bio family and the now-defunct queer collective they once called home. So when they're asked to take a work trip outside the city, they jump at the chance. Sure, it's additional work with no additional pay, but it's also an excuse to get out of town, and out of their own head. That dream is shattered when Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carina Press 2024
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Summary: In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2002