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c2011., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: IND Fic Bar Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The novel begins at the age of six, Martha is taken from her family and their home in the Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario and flown to a residential school on James Bay. It's not a good experience. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her Native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed" to the school's attendant priest with an attraction to little girls. Ten years later, it is an emotionally devastated sixteen-year-old who finds her way home again, barely able to speak the only language her mother knows. Martha hangs out with other young people, and gives birth to a little boy, whom she calls Spider, because of a web-shaped birthmark on his forehead. She loves him but has little knowledge or experience of good parenting. She seeks comfort and forgetfulness in alcohol, and Chidlren's Aid authorities in Toronto, a place she has only heard of, take Spider away from her. When she later gives birth to Raven, a daughter, Martha's mother insists on keeping her in Cat Lake when Martha decides to move to Toronto to find Spider. When Raven turns thirteen, she feels hopeless, rejected by her mother and not sure what, if anything, life has in store for her. She enters a suicide pact with three other teens and is eventually the only one of the group still alive."--Inside front cover.
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By Blunt, Gilesc2010., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Blu Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Volume: 5Summary Note: A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights with friend and colleague Lise Delorme. The quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The victims, visitors from Russia, were in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation as Cardinal soon discovers, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle.
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c2015., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: MYS Fic Bla Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Ramírez Volume: 3Summary Note: Murders always multiply when there's a full moon, Inspector Ricardo Ramirez knows. As he's investigating a vandal in the art world, a ghost appears by Ramirez's side... a sure sign that another murder victim is on the way. Ramirez's fears are confirmed when a dead prostitute is found in Havana with nylons wrapped tightly around her neck, an MO that connects to his only cold case. When another woman's body is discovered in a similar condition on a First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Detective Charlie Pike struggles to determine whether the murder is a standalone crime or if the Highway Strangler has struck again. Before long, both detectives find themselves tracking a killer whose reach extends further than they could have imagined.
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2011., Adult, XYZ Call No: QWF FR 848 S255i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Romanichels.Summary Note: "Vers quelle forêt secrte se dirige la photographe partie à la recherche d'un certain Boychuck, témoin et brûlé des Grands Feux qui ont ravagé le nord de l'Ontario au début du XXe siècle? On ne le saura pas. Boychuck, Tom et Charlie, dorénavant vieux, ont choisi de se retirer du monde. Ils vivent relativement heureux et ont même préparé leur mort. De fait, Boychuck n'est plus de ce monde au moment où s'amène la photographe. Tom et Charlie ignorent que la venue de la photographe boulversera leur vie. Les deux survivants feront la rencontre d'un personnage aérien, Marie-Desneige. Elle a 82 ans, tous ses esprits, même si elle est internée depuis soixante-six ans. Elle arrivera sur les lieux comme une brise espérée alors que la photographe découvrira que Boychuck était un peintre et que son ouvre était tout entière marquée par le Grand Feu de Matheson. C'est dans ce décor que s'élabore Il pleuvait des oiseaux. Nous voici en plein cour d'un drame historique, mais aussi pris par l'histoire d'hommes qui ont choisi la forêt. Trois êtres épris de liberté et qui ont fait un pacte avec la mort. Un superbe récit à la mesure du grand talent de Jocelyne Saucier."--Couverture.
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2016., Adult, Dundurn Edition: eBook ed. "Connect to this eBook title" Summary Note: "A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history. When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a fly-in, northern Ontario reserve, to investigate rumours of a fabricated water crisis and document its deplorable living conditions, she finds herself drawn into the troubles of the reserve. Unable to cope with the desperate conditions, she begins to fall apart. A moving tribute to the power of hope and resilience, Invisible North is an intimate portrait of a place that pushes everyone to their limits. Part memoir, part history of the Canadian reserves, Shimo offers an expansive exploration and unorthodox take on many of the First Nation issues that dominate the news today, including the suicide crises, murdered and missing indigenous women and girls, Treaty rights, Native sovereignty, and deep poverty. Alexandra Shimo is a journalist, broadcaster and former editor at Maclean's. She is the co-author of Up Ghost River."--Provided by publisher.
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c2009., McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Bem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ann and Richard have established an equilibrium in their marriage, but all is not as it seems. One drought-stricken summer in the 1980's, they are spending time, as always, in their cottage on Lake Nigushi, Ann working on her painting, Richard contemplating a career in politics. Unexpectedly, Billy, the former chief of a local Ojibway band, returns home after a long absence. His sudden presence in their lives stirs old conflicts, obsessions, and recollections of betrayal. Ann finds herself preoccupied with memories of her first love and its unresolved end. Richard is cast back to the failed land claim that, ten years before, soured his own complicated relationship with Billy. The stories of each of their pasts, and of the memorable characters that inhabited them, unfold against a backdrop of environmental tragedgy, as a great forest is threatened by clear-cutting. As the momentum of summer builds, the resilience of a marriage is tested, Billy discovers the nature of what has been lost during his years away, and the shadow of irrevocable change falls across all their lives."--Inside front jacket.
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By Blunt, Gilesc2012., Adult, Random House of Canada Call No: MYS Fic Blu Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Volume: 6Summary Note: It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill. And then Delorme, following a hunch, locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel way back in the woods...
