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c2006., HarperCollins Call No: SC Fic Hyl Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old John Egan knows he has a special gift: he can tell when people are lying. Their untruths set his eyes stinging and his stomach heaving. John thinks that one day his gift will make him famous and guarantee entry into the the Guinness Book of World Records. Until then, he has to navigate his father's anger and his mother's abrupt and confusing changes between treating him like a little boy and a then like a man. When the family is forced from their rural cottage into the council-flat slums of Dublin, John discovers that the lies that make him sick are also shielding him from the truth that threatens to destroy his family. A portrait of a boy who is a contradiction between aching vulnerability and a menacing anger fuelled by pain, Carry Me Down is a raw, beautiful read, another intensely profound and powerful story from a writer to watch."--HarperCollins.ca.
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2009., Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Per Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it.
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2006., HighBridge Call No: CD Fic Gau Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of the Scortas opens in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, the bastard product of a rape, and a notorious scoundrel, whose legacy the family is forced to confront.
![The house of Scorta [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT79655.JPG "The house of Scorta [CD]")
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2005., Adult, Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides.
![The hungry tide [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101639.JPG "The hungry tide [eBook]")
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2009., 94, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Little Shop 1986 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this musical, Mushnik's Flower Shop houses an exotic potted plant called Audrey II. People are rushing in to see it but if they knew the truth, they would rush right out.
![Little shop of horrors [DVD] (1986). Directed by Frank Oz](/Library/images/~imageCT101486.JPG "Little shop of horrors [DVD] (1986). Directed by Frank Oz")
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2013., Blue Rider Press Inc. Call No: Fic Sil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to Americas farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. Three vibrant characters anchor the narrative of Mary Coin. Mary, the migrant mother herself, who emerges as a woman with deep reserves of courage and nerve, with private passions and carefully-guarded secrets. Vera Dare, the photographer wrestling with creative ambition who makes the choice to leave her children in order to pursue her work. And Walker Dodge, a present-day professor of cultural history, who discovers a family mystery embedded in the picture.
![Midnight's children [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74717.JPG "Midnight's children [eBook]")
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2014., Adult, McClelland and Stewart Call No: Fic Toi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's tour de force 8th novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centred from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss. Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately woven tapestry of lives in a small town."--Publisher.
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2014., Adult, Audioworks Call No: CD Fic Toi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Wexford, Ireland, and in breathtaking Ballyconnigar by the sea, Colm Toibin's tour de force 8th novel introduces the formidable, memorable Nora Webster. Widowed at 40, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world she was born into. Wounded and self-centred from grief and the need to provide for her family, she struggles to be attentive to her children's needs and their own difficult loss. Toibin has given us a vivid portrait of a time and an intricately woven tapestry of lives in a small town."--Publisher.
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By Ward, Jesmync2011., Adult, Bloomsbury USA Call No: BLK Fic War Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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2011., Adult, Bloomsbury Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
![Salvage the Bones [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT83567.JPG "Salvage the Bones [eBook] : a novel")
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By Ward, Jesmyn2017., Adult, Scribner Call No: BLK Fic War Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise."--From publisher.
