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2007., Faber and Faber Call No: 808.54 T865a Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryTable of contents only Contributor biographical information More...
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2023., Hamish Hamilton Call No: QWF Fic McA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a bully one night, Oliver finds refuge in a junk shop owned by an enigmatic man. Soon, instead of hiding in the janitor's closet after school, Oliver spends afternoons in the shop, a cavernous place full of storied oddities and grubby wonders where creatures rise up from the basement. A snake in the shape of a boy. A hunter named Night, part panther, part hound, who proves to Oliver that the world holds invisible wonder. Wanting to forget his mother, afraid of his own genes, constantly harassed by bullies, Oliver decides to follow the shop-owner down the path of genetic editing. As he begins his transformation he meets the girl from across the street, and their friendship grows in a neighbourhood where magic is real, where murderers gather, and where the darker consequences of fantasies play out.
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2013, c2005., Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Zus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist - books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul."--Inside jacket.
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2006., Juvenile, Random House/Listening Library Call No: CD Fic Zus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
![The book thief [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76441.JPG "The book thief [CD]")
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c2010., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: QWF Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of a woman without a name. It is also the story of Lucie and Claire and Aurore and Suzanne - and the complex love between mothers, daughters, and friends. With this thrilling puzzle of a novel, Governor General's Literary Award winner and Giller Prize nominee Pascale Quiviger, author of THE PERFECT CIRCLE, shows that she is a writer who is capable of combining stylistic brilliance, philosophical depth, and sheer riveting storytelling.
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2010, c1931., Adult, Bloomsbury USA Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pre-war London, and the idea of growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters. Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys to their fulsomely imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington. But when Deirdre meets the judge's real-life wife at a charity bazaar the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imagnings. Will they cast off the fantasties of childhood forever?.
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2008., BBC Audiobooks America Call No: CD 821.1 C496c Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lively, literate and often bawdy, Chaucer draws a picture of medieval English society, from the high class, the knight, to the lower orders, the plowman.
![The Canterbury Tales [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT72478.JPG "The Canterbury Tales [CD]")
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c2012., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Har Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "St. Petersburg, 1917: As the new year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his daughters are taken to the Tsar's palace as wards of the Romanovs, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request: would Masha, 18, take her father's place at the sickbed of the tsarevitch Alyosha? Shaken, Masha agrees to do what she can for the imperious young prince, haunted as she is by questions about her father's powers and her future in a country accelerating toward political apocalypse. Two months later, the Bolshevik Revolution forces the Tsar to abdicate, and the whole royal family is placed under arrest in the Alexander Palace. Trapped together in increasingly harsh living conditions, Masha and Alyosha find themselves taking increasing solace in one another's company. The two teenagers, with radically different experiences of Russia, of Rasputin, and of Alyosha's parents' unlucky reign, create a private realm of magic and of love, as Masha introduces the young tsarevitch to a wild and beautiful land he will never live to rule. An unusual, gorgeously told love story, and a rich tapestry of unparalleled storytelling, Enchantments brings to life the final days of Rasputin and the Romanovs. It is a breathtaking tour-de-force by one of our most acclaimed writers."--Publisher.
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2021., University of Regina Press Call No: IND 808.543 V217g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Writers on writing (Regina, Sask.) ; 3Summary Note: Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform speakers and audiences alike. In Gather, Van Camp shares what elements make a compelling story and offers insights into basic storytelling techniques, such as how to read a room and how to capture the attention of listeners. And he delves further into the impact storytelling can have, helping readers understand how to create community and how to banish loneliness through their tales. A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation, Van Camp also includes stories from Elders whose wisdom influenced him.
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2023., AU Press Call No: NEW IND Bio W592i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead's energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.
![Life of Pi [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT75387.JPG "Life of Pi [CD] : a novel")
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2013., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Life P Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
![Life of Pi [DVD] (2012). Directed by Ang Lee.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Life of Pi [DVD] (2012). Directed by Ang Lee.")
![Life of Pi [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT74418.JPG "Life of Pi [eBook] : a novel")
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c2009., Voice/Hyperion Call No: Fic Div Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in California, nine people are in the office when an earthquake rips through the building trapping these nine together struggling to survive.
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2024., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: NEW BLK Fic Oye Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend, Sofie Cibulkova. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie's past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
