Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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By Tyler, Anne2004., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fic Tyl Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Wie Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A mythic thriller that carries you in its grip right until its heart-stopping conclusion. 16-year-old runaway Cassie Weathers is utterly alone, living on the streets of Victoria as winter sets in. She meets Skylark, a girl who draws her into a community of street dwellers, a rag tag group led by the charismatic Brother Paul. Cassie begins to find friendship and a tentative sense of belonging within the group, though everyone is on edge when the city is rocked by the news that a number of young prostitutes have been murdered.
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c2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Mit Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1984, teenager Holly Sykes runs away from home in England. Almost 60 years later, we find her in the far west of Ireland, raising two young children as the world's climate collapses. In between, Holly's life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes led by one Doctor Marinus. Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war - but may prove to be its decisive weapon.
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2020., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: Fic Mil Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures-in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--
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c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Boh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Emily Shepard is a homeless girl living in an igloo made of garbage bags. Nearly a year ago, a power plant in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont had a meltdown and both her parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most hated man in American, she is in danger. But Emily can't outrun her past - and so she comes up with the only plan she can.
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2012., Grand Central Pub. Call No: MYS Fic Bal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Will Robie Volume: 1Summary Note: Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
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-- Mosquito-land2015., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Fic Arn Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane."--From publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: Fic Zai Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The disturbing fate of a runaway older sister is gradually revealed in a tale told from the perspectives of the Hurst family, including a teen girl whose drug use has landed her in a mental ward, an autistic youth, an alcoholic father, and an insidiously manipulative mother.
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1998., Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Bar Edition: 1st U.S. ed., 1st Scribner ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Charlie Peace Volume: 5
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2009., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Per Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.
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By Lawson, Mary2021., Adult, Knopf Random Vintage Canada Call No: Fic Law Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'A Town Called Solace' is told in three distinct, compelling voices - Clara's, Mrs. Orchard's, and Liam's - cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we're born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending. Mary Lawson was born in southwestern Ontario. A Dewey Diva Pick. Goodreads Marketing Campaign. Book Club.
