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      By Rooney, Sally
       2021., Adult, Knopf Random Vintage Canada Call No: Fic Roo    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' tells the story of Alice and Eileen, two best friends approaching their 30s, and on very different trajectories. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? From the author of 'Normal People'.
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      By Chong, Corinna
       c2013., General, NeWest Press Call No: Fic Cho    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Half-Asian teenager Grace (but she'd prefer it if you called her "Gray" instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother--although she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English countryside, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her unique place within it.
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      By Crate Taylor, Joan, 1953-
       2016., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: IND Fic Cra    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark's Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous life is tolerated, not even her Blackfoot name. For she has entered into the world of the Sisters of Brotherly Love, an order of nuns dedicated to saving the Indigenous children from damnation. Life under the sharp eye of Mother Grace, the Mother General, becomes an endless series of torments, from daily recitations and obligations to chronic sickness and inedible food. And then there are the beatings. All the feisty Rose Marie wants to do is escape from St. Mark's. How her imagination soars as she dreams about her lost family on the Reserve, finding in her visions a healing spirit that touches her heart. But all too soon she starts to see other shapes in her dreams as well, shapes that warn her of unspoken dangers and mysteries that threaten to engulf her. And she has seen the rows of plain wooden crosses behind the school, reminding her that many students have never left here alive. Set during the Second World War and the 1950s, Black Apple is an unforgettable, vividly rendered novel about two very different women whose worlds collide: an irrepressible young Blackfoot girl whose spirit cannot be destroyed, and an aging yet powerful nun who increasingly doubts the value of her life. It captures brilliantly the strange mix of cruelty and compassion in the residential schools, where young children are forbidden to speak their own languages and given Christian names. As Rose Marie matures, she finds increasingly that she knows only the life of the nuns, with its piety, hard work and self-denial. Why is it, then, that she is haunted by secret visions--of past crimes in the school that terrify her, of her dead mother, of the Indigenous life on the plains that has long vanished? Even the kind-hearted Sister Cilla is unable to calm her fears. And then, there is a miracle, or so Mother Grace says. Now Rose is thrust back into the outside world with only her wits to save her. With a poet's eye, Joan Crate creates brilliantly the many shadings of this heartbreaking novel, rendering perfectly the inner voices of Rose Marie and Mother Grace, and exploring the larger themes of belief and belonging, of faith and forgiveness."--From publisher.
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      By Young, Moira
       c2011., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: Fic You   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too. Theyare taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
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      By Blachford, Janet
       2017., John Aylen Books Call No: Fic Bla    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A grown son returns to Blue Lake for the summer, with his new wife, his teenage son, and the ashes of his mother. But beneath the surface of Blue Lake is a place both real and surreal. The lake itself becomes a central character in a drama where the words not spoken speak more loudly than those pronounced, where the past and present converge and where the figurative and literal connect.
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      By Cusmano, Liana
       2022., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Cus   Edition: 1st ed..    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose;   Volume: 198Summary Note: "In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and never has been straight, but also that her relationship with a teacher in high school was not as harmless as she might have thought"--
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      By Chafe, Perry
       2023., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cha   Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From the writer and producer of the hit TV shows Republic of Doyle and Son of a Critch, a poignant coming-of-age debut novel about the mysterious disappearance of a young girl and the fragility of childhood bonds, set against the backdrop of a small island community adapting to an ever-changing landscape.
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      By Patchett, Ann
       2016., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Pat   Edition: First edition.    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together"--
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      By Thomas, Angie
       2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BLK Fic Tho   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.
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      By Napolitano, Ann
       2020., The Dial Press Call No: Fic Nap   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame--as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash" --.
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      By Emezi, Akwaeke
       2020., Riverhead Books Call No: BLK Fic Eme    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"--
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      By Robertson, Eliza
       2017., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: QWF Fic Rob    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A story of love, lust, and the spaces in between.(). It is 1950, and nine-year-old Willa's sheltered childhood is about to come to an end. After Willa's dad leaves, her mother's beau arrives with his two sons to her family's summer home in British Columbia. As Willa's older sister pairs off with the older of these boys, Willa finds herself alone in the off-kilter company of the younger, Patrick. When, one afternoon, Patrick lures Willa into a dilapidated rowboat, Willa embarks upon an increasingly damaging relationship with Patrick, one that will forever reconfigure her understanding of herself and her place in a menacing, male-dominated world. Demi-Gods traces the tumultuous years of Willa's coming-of-age as she is drawn further into Patrick's wicked games, and as both are drawn to the seductive promise of California. Though they see each other only a handful of times, each of their encounters is increasingly charged with sexuality and degradation. When Willa finally realizes the danger of her relationship with Patrick, she desperately tries to reverse their dynamic, with devastating results. Daring, singular, and provocative, Demi-Gods explores a girl's attempt to make a life of her own choosing in a world where women's independence is suspect, a world that threatens to claim a woman's body as a mere object for men's pleasure. A sensitive, playful, and entirely original evocation of the dualities within ourselves and our history, Eliza Robertson's debut novel announces the arrival of one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature."--From publisher.
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      -- Dish washer.
      By Larue, Stéphane, 1983-
       2019., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Lar   Edition: First Edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series.Summary Note: It's winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at La Trattoria, a high-end restaurant, where he finds himself thrust, on his first night, into roiling world of characters. A magnificent, hyperrealist debut, with a soundtrack by Iron Maiden, The Dishwasher plunges us into a world in which--for better or for worse--everyone depends on each other.
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      By Davis, Charles (Charles Raymond)
       c2008., Mira Call No: Fic Dav    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After spending more than twenty years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, a man returns to his boyhood home in the Blue Ridge of Virginia, only to find his family long dead.
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      By Strauss, Jacques, 1978-
       2011., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Str   Edition: 1st American ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Jack Viljee's hometown of Johannesburg is still divided by apartheid, though the old order is starting to crumble. According to eleven-year-old Jack, the world is a rational and simple place. But if life doesn't conform to Jack{8217}s expectations, there is always the sympathy and approval of the familys maid to console him. Not that Susie is a pushover. She believes violence, of the nondisfiguring variety, is a healthy form of affection{8212}hence her not infrequent expression Jack, I love you so much. I will hit you. Jack himself is not above socking his best friend in the eye or scamming his little sister into picking up the dog mess. The Viljee household, in its small way, mirrors the politics of the country.