1.
Series:
A Joy To Be Hidden
Paperback
Ariela Freedman
9781773900087
$19.95
FICTION
Alice Stein, a young graduate student living in a vivid and chaotic late-90s East Village, loses her father and grandmother in a single year. In the process of cleaning out her grandmother's Brooklyn apartment, she begins to unlock a family secret. Accompanied by her precocious downstairs neighbour, a twelve-year-old girl named Persephone, she sets out on a quest to understand her family and herself. In the process, she will discover lost children and buried love affairs, histories she wants to believe and people she can't trust, a village in H...
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2.
Series:
Butterfly
Paperback
John Delacourt
9781773900124
$19.95
FICTION
Lucien and Nata?a might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn?t caught up with her. Nata?a finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nata?a disappears that night, running for her life. Her vanishing is connected to the discovery of a video, secretly filmed in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Butterfly is a novel that charts a controlled descent through the dark legacy of war and the underbelly of the global art scene ? into a world ruled by a desperate hope for impossible redemption.
3.
Series:
Blindshot
Paperback
Denis Coupal
9781773900162
$19.95
FICTION
When financier Paul Carignan is hit by a stray bullet and killed in Beaufort, Quebec, the town leaders seem reluctant to investigate. Running out of patience, his teenage sons, Jack and Noah, take justice into their own hands and kidnap the locals they suspect are responsible. Things soon erupt and the boys find themselves besieged in their house with their captives. In the middle is their mother, Catherine, not sure which side to take. For Tom Doran, Beaufort's Deputy Chief of Police, the investigation has just gotten very complicated. One thi...
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4.
Series:
The Far Himalaya
Paperback
Phillip Ernest
9781988130972
$21.95
FICTION
Aug 02, 2019
Young and homeless, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by an unusual source of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the ancient literary language of India. Together with Aditi, a student of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto, he dreams of a future with her in India, a land in which she has her own troubled history. Before they can move on, they must extricate her from the clutches of her twisted and malevolent PhD supervisor. When a murder on campus threatens to draw the police?s attention to Ben and his friends, events spiral out of control, draw...
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5.
Series:
Claremont
Paperback
Wiebke von Carolsfeld
9781773900230
$21.95
FICTION
Aug 02, 2019
How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent?s murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with his childless Aunt Sonya, but she is ill equipped to deal with the traumatized boy. Before long, Tom is forced to move again, this time to Claremont Street in downtown Toronto, where he shares a run-down house with his mercurial Aunt Rose and his reckless yet endearing Uncle Will. As the seasons change, Tom's silence becomes a powerful presenc...
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6.
Series:
The Girl Who Stole Everything
Paperback
Norman Ravvin
9781773900278
$21.95
FICTION
Aug 07, 2019
A stolen house on a Polish square. A pop bottle on Vancouver?s east side. Nadia Baltzan knows a few things about theft. The Girl Who Stole Everything is a fresh and telling portrait of the relationship between prewar Polish shtetl life and Jewish lives today. In Poland, a house stands empty on a village square seventy-five years after its owners were killed. In Vancouver, the aftermath of a murder overturns the life of the victim?s niece. In these old and new worlds a mystery lurks, and Norman Ravvin lovingly recovers the past of both.
7.
Series:
ABC MTL
Hardcover
Jeanne Painchaud
9781773900353
$21.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 3 - 14
Oct 07, 2019
Montreal spelled out in a mosaic of haiku, descriptive text and full-colour photographs. From A to Z, every letter introduces a different aspect of the city in all its diversity and fun.