Summary: In the late 19th century, Toronto city police Detective William Murdoch takes a new, more scientific approach to murder investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochSummary: Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRASummary: In Toronto during the 1920s, four female detectives continue to rebel against gender norms by taking on the cases not even the police want to touch. From the wilderness to the world of high society, an underground cabaret to a candy factory, the women navigate their personal and private lives together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRASummary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVMurphy, Wendy B.
Summary: Describes the history, people, and sights of the city that represents the commercial, industrial, and financial center of Canada.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1992
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 971.3 MUROhmann, Sarah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 OHMSmith, Lauren Lee
Summary: Follows the adventures of female private detectives working in Toronto in the nineteen twenties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRADonoghue, Emma
Summary: Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DONLevine, Allan
Summary: "In the last seventy years, Toronto has been transformed from a provincial town to a significant urban heavyweight. Few cities have experienced such sustained growth, and the packed streets of North America's fourth-largest city are a far cry from the origins of the city as 'Little York,' which was comprised of the Lieutenant-Governor's muddy tent--which he shared with his wife and many...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.3 LEVOppel, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OPPSambury, Liselle
Summary: While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction of them all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMBisson, Yannick
Summary: In Victorian Toronto, Detective Murdoch uses the latest scientific techniques to solve the city's most baffling murders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURJennings, Maureen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENSummary: After seven months on the beat, these five rookies have kicked in doors, taken down criminals, kept people safe and saved each other in the process. Now they'll do it all again, but only better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOUnited Empire Loyalist Centennial Committee, Toronto
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.371United Empire Loyalists Centennial Committee (Toronto, Ont.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gregg Press 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 CEN1 available in Reference, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 CEN
Summary: In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era's most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochJennings, Maureen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENWilliams, Ian
Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPedican, Jawara
Summary: "Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He’s been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his older brother, which has been tolerated by his hard-working single mother. For years his brother has taken him to tournaments and pushed him to succeed on the outdoor courts of the west end....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC PEDShane, Scott
Summary: "A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers 2023