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-- Hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared2012., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Jon Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, he has actually played a key role in them...."--Publisher.
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-- One thousand two hundred and twenty-twoc2011., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hanne Wilhelmsen novels Volume: 2Summary Note: 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes that price just isn't worth paying. Her pursuit of truth and justice has cost her the love of her life, her career in the Oslo Police Department and her mobility: she is paralysed from the waist down by a bullet lodged in her spine. Trapped in a wheelchair, trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne's growing unease is shared by everyone in the hotel. Should she investigate, or should she just wait for help to arrive? And all the time rumours swirl about a secret cargo carried by train 601. Why was the last carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? Who or what is being concealed? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?.
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-- One Q eighty-fourc2011., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Mur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre 'proposal' to her. Having no other choice she agrees, but as a result of her actions she starts to feel as though she is gradually becoming detached from the real world. She has been on a top secret mission, and her next job leads her to encounter the superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange disturbance that develops over a literary prize. While Aomame and Tengo impact on each other in various ways, at times by accident and at times intentionally, they come closer and closer to meeting. Eventually the two of them notice that they are indispensable to each other. Is it possible for them to ever meet in the real world?.
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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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2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Coe Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence. Jacob is now a successful politician and, during an interview, he ends up arousing something in her she hadn't felt for a long time: passion..." --wikipedia.com.
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2002., Modern Library Call No: SC Fic Doy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sherlock Holmes Volume: 3-4
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c2011., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Coe Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal, the woman he loved 500 years before, an encounter that will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and present, in search of himself. Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our sins; a search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life.
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[1969], Wadsworth Pub. Co. Call No: 823 C319al Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Wadsworth guides to literary study
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c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: Fic Man Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the middle of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work. He has discovered that the famous Etruscan statue known as The Shade of Twilight contains a mysterious object, seemingly embedded within the sculpture itself. His work is suddenly interrupted by the phone ringing, and on the other end of the line an icy female voice warns him to abandon his research at once. A series of gruesome killings follow. The victims, who have all been involved in the desecration of an unexplored tomb, seem to be have been torn to pieces by a beast of unimaginable size. Meanwhile, as Fabrizio excavates the Etruscan tomb he discovers evidence of a legendary Etruscan ritual of horrifying violence, an ancient religious rite knows as the Phersu. What is hiding inside the enigmatic stature? What lies behind the bloodthirsty rage that has lain in wait for all these centuries? Will Fabrizio manage to unravel these secrets without being sucked into the spiral of violence himself?"--Back cover.
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2012., General, Coach House Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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2012., General, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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c2013., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Sod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession... All of their paths will collide.
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1967., C. N. Potter; Distributed by Crown Publishers Call No: SC 823 D754a v. 1 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Sherlock Holmes
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c2010., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: QWF Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A sweek, smart and occasionally sureal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers - if only one on them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh."--Inside front cover.
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c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: QWF Fic Bis Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the collection of stories, Nadine Bismuth treats us to a series of sharp, witty, but compassionate portraits of modern urban women torn between a desire for male companionship and the trials and tribulations of navigating couplehood in the real world..."--Back cover.
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2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
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2010., Adult, Hodder & Stoughton Call No: MYS Fic Sig Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Thóra Gudmundsdóttir novels Volume: 3Summary Note: Thóra peered at the floor, but couldn't see anything that could have frightened Markús that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she was seeing-- and then it was all she could do not to let the torch slip from her hand. 'Good God,' she said. She ran the light over the three faces, one after another. Sunken cheeks, empty eye-sockets, gaping mouths; they reminded her of photographs of mummies she'd once seen in National Geographic. 'Who are these people?' 'I don't know,' said Markús... Bodies are discovered in one of the excavated houses at a volcanic tourist attraction dubbed 'The Pompeii of the North'. Markús Magnússon, who was only a teenager when the volcano erupted, falls under suspicion and hires attorney Thóra Gudmundsdottir to defend him - but when his childhood sweetheart is murdered his case starts to look more difficult, and the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up..
