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-- Then she fell :2023., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: NEW IND Fic Ell Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A mind-bending, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. .
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-- Being Erica.2009., Adult, E1 Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Being E 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Being Erica Volume: 1Summary Note: "We all have regrets and we've all made mistakes. But what if you could go back in time and fix them? Erica Strange can - and desperately needs to. She's 32 years old and facing a premature mid-life crisis. With no boyfriend, no job, no prospects, her life is in shambles, and she often blames her past mistakes for her current predicament. Enter Dr. Tom. Part therapist, part mysterious rogue, he comes into Erica's life at a time when nothing seems to be going right for her and offers one simple proposition: whatever she is unhappy about, he can fix it. And with that they begin their extraordinary journey together, as he sends Erica back in time to excavate her past, to relive her regrets, and to make different choices this time around."--Container.
![Being Erica, season 1 [DVD]. Season one.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Being Erica, season 1 [DVD]. Season one.")
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2012., Vintage Canada Call No: MYS Fic Shr Edition: Vintage Canada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World of crime.Summary Note: When PI Jonah Geller heads to Boston on the trail of a family friend's son, this missing person case looks more like a case of burnout. But it soon becomes clear that overachieving surgeon-in-training David Fine had a real reason to run. He'd been forced into a criminal ring performing illegal organ transplants, the brainchild of a Boston crime boss. Geller goes after him with partner Jenn Raudsepp, but when Jenn is kidnapped herself, he needs help from a former hit man and two wise guys to try to get her back, and stay one step ahead of the Boston law.
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1998., Warner Books Call No: BLK Fic Hop Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fantasy novel of urban decay whose heroine turns to Afro-Caribbean magic to help a boyfriend escape gangs. The gangs are enforcing a contract to produce a human heart for transplant, even if the boyfriend has to kill for it. The setting is a futuristic Toronto.
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Hel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An attack by an unknown assailant leaves Kim Lystrander at the mercy of her fear. As Kim re-imagines in writing the hours and days leading up the assault, her father, Harold begins to unravel. Michael Helm, the Giller Prize shortlisted author of THE PROJECTIONIST and IN THE PLACE OF LAST THINGS offers a compelling and complex human drama, where mysteries live within mysteries, stories within stories. Tough, urban and thought-provoking, a novel with all the overtones of a literary thriller.
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2024., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: NEW IND MYS Fic Tay Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle. Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, former journalist-turned-author and famed survivor of a plane crash that sparked a nationwide tour promoting her book. What starts off as a series of subtle connections between isolated characters quickly takes a menacing turn, as it becomes increasingly clear that someone--or something--is hunting them all. Taking tropes from murder mystery, police procedural, thriller, and horror, Drew Hayden Taylor weaves a pulse-pounding and propulsive narrative with an intricate cast of characters, while never losing the ability to make you laugh. Cold takes Indigenous myth and folklore and thrusts it into the modern streets of Toronto, exploring themes of displacement and trauma, as well as offering playful satirical critiques of the current landscape of Indigenous literature.
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2022., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: MYS Fic Jen Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Paradise Café Volume: 3Summary Note: November's rain in Toronto 1936 has turned into December's cold snap. Charlotte Frayne escapes being hit by a mud-splattered car racing round the corner at Queen and Spadina. The stranger who saves her turns out to be the man her boss, Mr. Gilmore, has helped to escape Germany and is now a refugee in need of shelter. In a world still recovering from the War to End All Wars and the Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed fifty million people worldwide, and still in the throes of the Great Depression, Stephen Lucas is not just any refugee from the Nazi regime; he is in possession of information that could alter the course of history -- but only if seen by persons in power and if acted upon. In a surprising twist of fate, Charlotte's estranged mother reappears, wanting assistance in locating the son she gave up at birth twenty years before. Despite her turbulent feelings about her mother, Charlotte agrees to investigate, having no idea that the two cases will connect in surprising ways. Back at the Paradise Café, Christmas draws near and Charlotte's beau, Hilliard Taylor, and his partners are in disagreement about the holiday concert. With her beloved grandfather in the mix, there's no telling whether the show will end in good tidings or anarchy.
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c2013., Adult, Véhicule Press Call No: QWF MYS Fic She Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Literary agent Madison Holmes is brutally attacked in her condo and left for dead days after she sent rejection letters to four would-be authors. Lieutenant-Detective Toni Damiano is assigned the high-profile case to the chagrin of detectives in her division. Unfazed and confident, Damiano is determined to track down the vicious assailant and close her first 'lead' case.
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2023., ECW Press Call No: NEW Fic Won Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto's gentrifying Chinatown-Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, Cho Sum meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind.
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c2011., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic Ric Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Novel about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. With his life growing more ruinous by the day -- his writing career is on the rocks, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the feds, and his son, a former child star, is in prison -- Elliot decides to do what any self-respecting wine lover would do: escape to France. Alas, fate has other things in store. Stranded in Canada by an expired passport, he is strongly encouraged to remain there due to his bit part in a growing Hollywood scandal. Deciding that Toronto may just be the perfectly engineered city in which to lay low, Elliot kills time by bluffing his way to the top of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation."--McNally Robinson Booksellers.
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By Grady, Wayne2021., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Vancouver and Toronto in the present day, 'The Good Father' comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception, and the price we pay for second chances. Grady lives in Kingston, ON. From the author of 'Emancipation Day' and 'Up From Freedom'. Book Club.
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[2021]., Adult, Harper Avenue, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Jal Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A rom-com for fans of 'You've Got Mail,' set in two competing halal restaurants. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one of her listeners. But soon she'll need all the support she can get: a new competing restaurant, a more upscale halal place, is about to open in the Golden Crescent, threatening Three Sisters. When her mysterious aunt and her teenage cousin arrive from India for a surprise visit, they draw Hana into a long-buried family secret. A hate-motivated attack on their neighbourhood complicates the situation further, as does Hana's growing attraction for Aydin, the young owner of the rival restaurant-- who might not be a complete stranger after all. As life on the Golden Crescent unravels, Hana must learn to use her voice, draw on the strength of her community and decide what her future should be.
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2012., Random House of Canada Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Toronto PI Jonah Geller is as secular as they come, an atheist who nonetheless feels deep ties to his Jewish community. Needing to make up for past mistakes, to help those whom the system fails or can't protect, he opens an agency called World Repairs with his best friend, stunning six-foot blonde Jenn Raudsepp. Along with Dante Ryan, a hit man trying to escape his Mob ties, they duck bullets and dodge blades--one step ahead of the law--at home and across the border. Crackling with humour, complex plotting and gritty locales, Buffalo Jump, High Chicago and Boston Cream are the first three novels in Howard Shrier's acclaimed, Arthur Ellis Award-winning series.
![Jonah Geller Mysteries 3-Book Bundle [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76132.JPG "Jonah Geller Mysteries 3-Book Bundle [eBook]")
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2010, c2008., Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Mcf Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2013., McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Murdoch Mysteries Volume: 3Summary Note: Detective William Murdoch is asked to prove the innocence of his estranged father who is awaiting execution for murder, but the path to the truth is strewn with secrets.
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2021., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: Fic Gra Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war.
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2010, c2005., Adult, MP Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "An aging Andrew Woodman stumbles through a snowstorm, slowly losing his strength, his language, and his memories of the once-familiar island landscape around him. When Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrew's body frozen in the ice later that winter, the rich narrative tapestry of A Map of Glass begins."--OverDrive.
![A map of glass [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75299.JPG "A map of glass [eBook]")
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2009., Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Murdoch 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Murdoch mysteries Volume: 1Summary Note: In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era's most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Prince Alfred.