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2019., Linda Leigh Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Von Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent's murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with his childless Aunt Sonya, but she is ill equipped to deal with the traumatized boy. Before long, Tom is forced to move again, this time to Claremont Street in downtown Toronto, where he shares a run-down house with his mercurial Aunt Rose and his reckless yet endearing Uncle Will. As the seasons change, Tom's silence becomes a powerful presence, allowing this fractured family to hear one another for the first time-- and for Tom to finally find a home. Claremont is a gripping story of one family's journey through grief and toward healing.
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c2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: MYS Fic Wie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A retired professor, a widower, sees a man who he knows must be his beloved oldest son, Gabriel. But it can't be, as Gabe killed himself 25 years ago.
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c2011., Adult, McArthur & Company Publishing Limited Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Alex Morrow novels Volume: 2Summary Note: "Sarah Erroll has jetlag. Lying in bed in the mid afternoon, savouring a glorious sleep in her childhood nursery, she thinks she hears a noise downstairs. But it's a big house, an old house and floor boards snap, walls creak and sag, timbers groan. She doesn't like it. She leaves the radio on when she's here alone to mask the sounds but the radio is off. Then she hears a woman's voice on the stairs. There are two of them and they come into her room, menacing, angry, clearly not here by mistake. But she's never seen either of them before and doesn't know why they're so angry. Alex Morrow is called at her father's funeral and ordered to the house but the officers below her are worried: strong men can't look at what they did to Sarah Erroll. Scene of Crime officers can't cope with what they did. Meeting an old friend from her school days Morrow gets drawn into a world of obvious answers, but Sarah Erroll was not who she seemed to be and Morrow has to fight for the chance to investigate the many other lives of a woman no one seemed to have known."--Author's website.
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2004., HarperCollins Call No: MYS Fic Hil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dalziel & Pascoe Volume: 21
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c2011., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Pyp Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Ben commits suicide, his three good friends from childhood - Trevor, Randy, and Carl - return to their small town of Grimshaw for his funeral. But going back, means that they must confront their memories of a sinister crime that happened in an abandoned house in their neighbourhood - a crime that claws its way into the present, leaving its indelible mark on everyone."--Publisher.
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c2012., Adult, New American Library Call No: Fic Stj Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1920s England, Sarah Piper is sent by her temporary agency to assist a ghost hunter, Alistair Gellis, as he investigates the spirit of Maddy Clare, a young serving maid said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. The ghost is no hoax, and Sarah is soon caught up in trying to discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and why she is desperate for revenge.
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c2013., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: Fic Sla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Land of Birdfishes is an unexpected and intricate debut novel by Nova Scotian writer Rebecca Silver Slayter. Although the story begins with two sisters who are blindfolded by their father after their mother's suicide, it quickly transitions to decades later. Aileen, who is partially blind, travels to Dawson City, Yukon, where her fully blind sister, Mara, is supposedly living. Instead she finds Jason, Mara,s angry son, with many stories to share.
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2008., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: What could make a successful, happily married man take a gun and shoot himself? What made a young artist on the brink of fame throw himself to his death?These are the questions facing Chief Inspector Lamb and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Cogan. Neither victim left a note behind to explain what drove him to take his own life, and it appears that nothing untoward had occurred in the weeks preceding their deaths. Having briefly met both victims, Lamb struggles to connect the impression he gained of the men with their final actions, and his close attention pays off when a postmortem reveals some surprising results.With one case now looking like a suspicious death, Lamb looks for links between the two men. All paths seem to lead to the enigmatic figure of Mrs. Isobel Amberley and a mysterious event that took place one winter§s night in Vienna.Beautifully written and highly evocative of the bustling streets of London and Vienna in the early twentieth century, Last Nocturne is an intriguingly complex mystery of passion and the devastating repercussions of a single action.
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2018., Berkley Call No: Fic Mac Edition: First US edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the newest psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You, Clare Mackintosh brings us a gripping story about how those who love us never really leave us... Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unable to comprehend why they chose to end their lives. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's presence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as Anna digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her. She soon learns that nothing is as it seemed"--
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2008., Blackstone Audio Call No: CD Fic Fla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bored with her passionless husband and her humbled life, young Emma Bovary partakes in a series of lusty affairs. However, her careless flings and extravagant spending sprees threaten to destroy her health and reputation.
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c2012., General, Random House of Canada Call No: Fic Oco Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: What's a girl supposed to do after her mother kills herself by walking into the Don River with her pockets full of unpolished zircon stones? Maggie removes the zircon stones from the inventory of the family's New Age shop and opens up for another day of business. Then her blackouts begin, as do the visits from a mysterious customer who offers help for Maggie's blackouts and her project of investigating her mother's past in the American South. Is Maggie breaking down in the way her mother did, or is her "madness" a distinctive show of grief? Nobody really knows, not her father, her boyfriend or her psychiatrist, and especially not Maggie, who has to make some crazy decisions in order to work to feel sane again. A vivid look at the various confusions that can set in after a trauma and an insightful, gently funny portrait of a woman in her early twenties, especially relatable to readers who grew up in the eighties and nineties, 'Magnified World' dramatizes the battle between the head and the heart and the limitations of both in unlocking something as complicated as loss.
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c2011., Adult, Coach House Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend's girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him that time she sold him an Iced Cappuccino at Tim Hortons. His English teacher, mid-divorce and mid-menopause, wishes she could remember the dead student's name, that she could care more about her students than her ex's new girlfriend. Who happens to be her cousin. The school guidance counsellor, Walter, feels guilty <U+2013> maybe he should have made an effort when the kid asked for help. Max, the principal, is worried about how it will reflect on the very Catholic school. And Walter, who's been secretly in a relationship with Max for years, thinks that's a little callous. He's also tired of Max's obsession with some sci-fi show on TV. And Max wishes Walter would lose some weight and remember to use a coaster. And then Max meets a drag queen named Crêpe Suzette. And everything changes."--Back cover.
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c2011., Adult, Coach House Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend's girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him that time she sold him an Iced Cappuccino at Tim Hortons. His English teacher, mid-divorce and mid-menopause, wishes she could remember the dead student's name, that she could care more about her students than her ex's new girlfriend. Who happens to be her cousin. The school guidance counsellor, Walter, feels guilty <U+2013> maybe he should have made an effort when the kid asked for help. Max, the principal, is worried about how it will reflect on the very Catholic school. And Walter, who's been secretly in a relationship with Max for years, thinks that's a little callous. He's also tired of Max's obsession with some sci-fi show on TV. And Max wishes Walter would lose some weight and remember to use a coaster. And then Max meets a drag queen named Crêpe Suzette. And everything changes."--Back cover.
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By Amis, Martinc1998., A.A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Ami Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch