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-- Thirteen ways of looking at a fat girl.By Awad, Mona2016., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Fic Awa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks--even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?"--From publisher.
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2019., Invisible Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Sur Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love, obsession, and everything in between. Araceli loves Adrien. Adrien loves Pénélope. Pénélope marries Gabriel, who is tormented by the search for the father he never knew. Set in Montreal, but spiralling out across Canada, Bindu Suresh’s debut novel deftly reveals the devastating consequences of betrayal and commitment, of grief and hope."--.
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-- Three chefs2010., General, Whitecap Books Call No: 641.5 B697t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Four nineteen.2012., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father's killer. A story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.
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2007., Seuil Call No: QWF FR Fic Arc Edition: 1re publication. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sur le toit dœun immeuble de Montréal, une femme au teint de rousse se fait bronzer. Immobile sous les rayons, Julie OœBrien ne supporte pas la morsure du soleil : mais elle considère le traitement quœelle sœinflige comme obligatoire.La beauté, chez Nelly Arcan, est en rapport avec la maltraitance. La beauté est une guerre. Et la guerre surgit lorsque Rose Dubois la rejoint sur ce toit brûlant. Rose est en couple avec Charles Nadeau, un photographe de mode. Les deux femmes se lient, mais ne peuvent sœempêcher de projeter dans leur relation lœombre de leurs peurs. Chacune peut repérer les traces de la chirurgie sur les lèvres ou les seins de lœautre. Un lien au scalpel. Et pendant que Charles manipule des photos sur son ordinateur, Julie et Rose se demandent laquelle est en trop, qui devra mourir.Dans un monde de harcèlement publicitaire où le corps des femmes est sans cesse déshabillé et exposé, brandi comme une marche à suivre et refondu par la chirurgie esthétique, lœamour semble glisser des doigts.Cœest une histoire dœaujourdœhui, cruelle. Cœest aussi une prouesse littéraire sans pareille. Un pur condensé de désenchantement et de colère.
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2007., Hurtubise HMH Call No: FR Fic Dav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amours interdites Volume: tome IIISummary Note: Le printemps 1967 s'annonce et avec lui souffle un vent nouveau qui fera virevolter le destin de plusieurs des habitants de Saint-Jacques-de-la-Rive. L'heure est au bouleversement des mœurs et des valeurs. Ce que l'on nommera plus tard la Révolution tranquille s'est bel et bien installée, malgré les répliques acerbes du curé Savard, à qui Étienne Fournier et les autres membres de la fabrique répondront sur le même ton. Le maire, Côme Crevier, ne sera pas en reste, incarnant dorénavant l'autorité dans son village. Alors que tous les regards sont fixés sur Montréal et son exposition universelle, les jeunes adultes des familles Veilleux, Fournier, Hamel et Tremblay sont appelés à faire des choix. Bataille de coq, déception amoureuse, emplois prometteurs, grossesse honteuse, promesse de mariage, émancipation, perte d'enfant, tous sont emportés par le tourbillon de la vie. Nostalgiques devant tous ces changements, la génération de leurs parents se réfugie dans les souvenirs. Étrangement, la relation chaotique qu'entretiennent Bertrand Tremblay et d'André Veilleux leur rappelle celle, aussi houleuse, de leurs grands-pères Eugène et Ernest.
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2014., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks novel Volume: 22Summary Note: The story begins with a stolen tractor, hardly a job for DCI Banks and his Homicide and Major Crimes team, but the new police commissioner has put rural crime high on her agenda. At the same time, an apparent crime scene is discovered in an old hangar at an abandoned WWII airfield. In addition, two local lads are missing. Just as Banks and his team are getting a grip on all these incidents, a car accident in a freak hailstorm turns up a gruesome discovery.
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c2009., House of Anansi Press Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences."--Publisher description.
![Ablutions [eBook] : notes for a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT74736.JPG "Ablutions [eBook] : notes for a novel")
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c2009., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic deW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences."--Publisher description.
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2007., Adult, Dundurn Press Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Jack Taggart mysteries Volume: 2Summary Note: "RCMP detective Jack Taggart has avenged the murders of his niece and nephew, but the consequences linger. His deal with Damien, leader of the Satans Wrath motorcycle gang, has put him in a bind and has jeopardized an informant in the gang. Meanwhile, other members of the gang, led by a mysterious figure known only as "The Boss", have been working to eliminate Taggart by destroying the lives of anyone with connections to him. And if the bad guys aren't enough of an obstacle, there are problems to be found on the force itself. Assistant Commisioner Isaac is becoming more and more suspicious that Jack may have been responsible for the death of a corrupt Crown prosecutor. With Jack's life and career on the line, Above Ground is a tough and gritty follow-up that will more than satisfy readers who were pulled into the dark Vancouver underworld by Loose Ends, the first Jack Taggart mystery."--OverDrive.
![Above ground [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76307.JPG "Above ground [eBook]")
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2016., Adult, House of Anansi Call No: Fic Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn't he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently crushed under his sandal? With this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the span of life--from birth to death and beyond. Her characters question their purpose and what will come after, as they are confronted by evil that lives and that has taken root."--From publisher.
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c2011., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Bar Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "No one shines the suspense spotlight into the darkest corners of American homes brighter than Linwood Barclay. In this tautly written novel of suspense, Glen Carver is left with a daughter to raise and a head full of questions when his wife dies in a drunk-driving accident--one that she caused. Sheila wasn't a drinker. Sheila wasn't even supposed to be on the road where she died. A conspiracy is forming around Glen, one that involves virtually everyone he knows, and makes him wonder how well he knew the woman he married. If Carver is going to find out what really happened to his wife, he's going to have to seek a truth that could get him killed. If he's going to protect their daughter, he'll have to go even further."--Fantastic Fiction website.
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c2011., 8th House Publishing Call No: Fic Kin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Robert Scroyle C.A., is the senior partner at Scroyle, Caitiff, Rudisbe and Spavin. He is married, has a girlfriend or two and is no stranger to a shady tax strategy thatœs just this side of legal. Now life is about to get a lot more complicated.Renzo Villiago is the founder of Ravishing Cosmetics, one of Scroyleœs most important clients. He has to find a business to buy that will solve what he sees as an accounting problem.Agustinho Bastinhado is an underworld figure with a big problem: too much cash. He has to hide it somewhere fast. Scroyle has to make both men happy or lose his business, maybe even his life.In a story that plays out on the streets of Montreal and in boardrooms populated by characters who are eerily familiar to anyone whoœs ever been in a downtown office building, Scroyleœs life spins out of control and begins to unravel. Kidnapping, undercover police operations, the netherworld of organized crime, a love story gone sourthis is not what a man who deals in certainties is meant to deal with.
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Ã2016., Livres DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Hen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul, ' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hopeful of being freer of her ex. Until she realizes the crazy cost of disentangling herself, and not just from him or his 'associates.' Old World skepticism kicks at New World concerns in Acqua Sacra, Keith Henderson's brisk new novel about private deception and public corruption. His cast includes an honest architect, a gutsy office clerk, the modern-day witch of a drained lake, and at least one (reformed) dirt-digging lawyer. But what is Suzanna to do when the mob and their extralegal cross-border political shenanigans invade her life? While Montreal's underworld seems as full of venomous snakes and mean dogs as the Abruzzo mountains, Roman history, Italian mafiosi, dutiful Canadians, and migrant African workers collide, headlong and bizarrely comedic. At the centre of the crash, stunned and sheep-like, lies Suzanna. Henderson, the author ofThe Roof Walkers, again delivers an entertaining and perceptive story in Acqua Sacra about the nature of personal responsibility, this time in an age of multinational delinquency. If Suzanna survives the wreckage, it'll be by honouring the true meaning of 'family' in any global village."--
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2015., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Rating:
(1 Ratings) Summary Note: "Act Normal" is a collection of sharp, new comic stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents. Highly original, occasionally dark, but always endearing, these stories are filled with characters who are forced to confront strange behaviour in both themselves and others.
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2018., Meraki House Publishing Call No: Fic Lec Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Who tried to kill Kerry Chapman?Can psychotherapy help Kerry to restart her life or is she forever doomed to be a victim?Actions, a story about guilt and betrayal, exposes the dynamics of self-destructive behaviour in therapy sessions between Kerry and her psychiatrist.Anyone who has questioned why they became entangled in the misery of a no-win relationship will find it compelling reading.
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2003., McArthur & Company Call No: Fic Hus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A legal hearing is taking place outside of real time and place to determine the cause of death of a certain Cosmo. Some of the witnesses are dead, others inanimate, but chief among them are Cosmo's former lovers.
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2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic MacD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love. Mary-Rose MacKinnon is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing to semi-retire in her early 40s. She lives in a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood with her partner and their two young children trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance her creative pursuits with domestic demands. As a child, Mary-Rose suffered from an illness, long since cured and "filed separately" - in her mind. But as her frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms.
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2011., Baraka Books Call No: QWF Fic Fou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spring 1651: a young man from Paris lands in Trois-Rivières on the St. Lawrence River. Within weeks, the course of his life changes dramatically when Iroquois braves capture him. Pierre-Esprit Radisson, then only fifteen years old, begins a new life. Canoeing across rivers and lakes and portaging over mountains, Radissonœs captors take him to distant lands where first they torture him, then adopt him as a brother. In this first tome of the adventures of North Americaœs most famous coureur des bois, readers voyage into the heart of a continentœs history in an era of bravery and heroism. Newcomers from France and indigenous peoples meet, sometimes as friends and allies, sometimes as bitter enemies. Martin Fournier brings to bear his impassioned story-telling skills and historianœs rigour to produce a novel that is a thrilling read from start to finish.
