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1) The hangman
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"On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. As Gamache follows the trail...
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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Một thể chế thần quyền mọc lên trên cái nền nước Mỹ dân chủ vừa trải qua chính biến: Gilead, ngọn đèn trên quả đồi, quyết tâm đem ánh sáng của tem phiếu, của chuyên chế xã hội và của đạo đức Thánh giáo thế kỷ mười bảy cứu vãn thế giới đang chìm vào sa đọa, ô nhiễm môi trường và nạn vô sinh. Và tương lai của Gilead nằm trong tay các Tùy...
4) Little fish
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. At first she dismisses the revelation, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives Wendy is drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather's past.
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Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
Description
When spending the summer with her great-aunts, Chloe struggles to overcome the stage fright that threatens her future as a concert pianist, while trying to solve the mystery of her great-grandfather, a magician who disappeared without a trace many years before.
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Cullen and Cobb novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster steps into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shares the bill with Joni Anderson, who would later become famous as Joni Mitchell. During a cigarette break in a back alley, Ellie is forced into a car, and the musicians with her are with shot and killed. The investigation that follows turns up no sign of the kidnappers, and Ellie Foster is never seen again. Now, more...
9) Creep
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"It seems the October rains have brought death and disaster to North Vancouver. A missing hiker is found by his son and daughter - was he frightened to death? - on an old-growth trail in the Lynn Headwaters park; a foul smell leads to a mauled body in a crawl space; and a small boy is attacked and bitten by a man in wolf form. Yet it is only the beginning of the mayhem the North Shore RCMP will have to deal with before winter sets in. Once an up-and-coming...
11) Washington Black
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black - or Wash - a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is intially terrified when he is chosen to be the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is intiated into a world where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man...
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native...
13) Blink & Caution
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2011.
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English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Korean
Description
What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? Poet Jordan Scott writes movingly in this powerful and ultimately uplifting book, based on his own experience. A book for any child who feels lost, lonely, or unable to fit in. Korean edition translated by Kim Ji-un.
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