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1) Road ends
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The third book in the trilogy (but can also be a stand alone), has our beloved characters from "Crow Lake" appear all grown up, buried secrets are discovered, and the older generation revisited by the scandals of the childhoods. A very emotional book set in 1969 with a new family in Struan dealing with small town atmosphere and chaos in the depths of a Canadian winter - as tragedy strikes, families fall apart and learn how to come together.
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Viking
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English
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This is a wise, wonderful collage of rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey games and Sunday morning pancakes. A story about an exploding outhouse sits right beside one about a lost love because that's just what happens in life. Sad things are tangled up with funny things and sweet things, too. The voices in these stories are private and personal. Reading this collection is like joining a dinner party hosted by Stuart...
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Viking
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English
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Canada's undisputed King of Improv! Borrowing from a well-known improv game, Mochrie takes the first and last lines from familiar classics and reimagines everything in between. With the same engaging humour he exhibits on stage, television, and film, Mochrie takes the reader in bizarre and hilarious new directions, using the original writer's words as a launch and landing point.
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"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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From the author of the international bestseller "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it? Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting...
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Espionage and betrayal become part of one family's struggle to survive in this sequel to the bestseller "The Far Side of the Sky." The Japanese force 20,000 Jewish refugees, including the Adlers, to relocate to a one-square-kilometre area in the slums of the city - the Shanghai Ghetto. Meanwhile, as the tide of the war begins turning in the rest of the world, the local Nazis maintain a persistent, menacing interest in Shanghai's Jewish population....
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"Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting toHappy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now-at...
10) King and Maxwell
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The deeper Sean and Michelle dig, the more questions they uncover. Is Tyler's father really still alive? Was he even in the military? Is Tyler's whole life a lie? They realize that they've stumbled onto something that reaches into the highest levels of power. But even as the danger mounts, Sean and Michelle are determined to help this confused and terrified young man find out the truth about his family - though they may pay for it with their lives....
11) The brotherhood
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Precinct 11 volume 1
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English
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Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
12) Keeper'n me
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English
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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.
Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family.
The...
Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family.
The...
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When Christine is called into action again to stop thirty-four-year-old Adam jumping off a bridge, she will do anything to stop him. She makes a rash deal - she must convince Adam that life is worth living by his thirty-fifth birthday, otherwise he will take his own life. Christine only has a few weeks to try and help Adam see the everyday beauty in life, find happiness again, and - most of all - win back the love of his life. A thoughtful, captivating,...
14) The betrayal
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Precinct 11 volume 2
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English
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Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
15) Enon: a novel
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English
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Follows the tumultuous inner-life journey of Charlie Crosby for a year as he struggles to come to terms with the loss of his daughter.
16) The breakthrough
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Precinct 11 volume 3
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English
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As the youngest bureau chief and head of the Chicago Police Department's Major Case Squad, Boone Drake seems to have it all under control. Only those closest to him know that just a few short years ago, he lost everything that mattered to him in a tragic accident. After years of healing, his life is back on track. He recently married a wonderful woman named Haeley, adopted her son, bought a beautiful home, and rediscovered his faith. But Boone can't...
18) Parasite
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Parasitology volume 1
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Orbit
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English
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Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
20) Two fronts
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The war that came early volume 5
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English
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As the Spanish civil war drags on and the United States fights Japan in the Pacific, Nazi Germany fights Russia in Eastern Europe as new nationalist powers arise.
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