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Series
Canadian West series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated when the local Indian women are afraid to even communicate with her. The Delaney's thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the...
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Language
English
Description
"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments • This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman—as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age in the uncertain ‘50s and ‘60s, and as half of a couple growing old together.
In a series of vividly evoked settings that span
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amy, Ty , Jack and Tim sacrifice Christmas at Heartland to save starving horses trapped by and avalanche in a remote mountain area, in the process bringing together and town and a family divided by a long-ago tragedy.
Publisher
EOne
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 14 of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is courage, and times change.
Publisher
EOne
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : 7 Hrs. 33 Mins., sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 14 of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is courage, and times change.
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 5
Language
English
Description
A novel of two entwined love stories set in the majestic Canadian West. A brother and sister, siblings by more than blood, risk broken hearts.
Publisher
Rlj Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch and Dr. Ogden are thrilled with their new baby, but domestic bliss eludes Crabtree on his path to the altar and coroner Miss Hart as she deals with her menacing father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers. Includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based on the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers, includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
xii, 160 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs cover the personal life and literary career of the Canadian writer best known for her novels about Anne, a girl from Prince Edward Island.
13) Hamlet for kids
Author
Series
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers, includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.
Author
Publisher
CFI
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Deirdre O'Connor is forced to leave her comfortable Boston home in 1847 and journey west in search of her father. With her aunt and uncle, converts to the Mormon Church, she is thrown into the challenges and hardships that confronted the early pioneers. At the same time she must choose between Trevor Deakins, a junior naval officer with political aspirations or Josh Logan, a young Mormon schooled by the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith.
15) Twelfth night
Author
Series
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill., music ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers. Includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.
16) Riffs
Author
Language
English
Description
Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Riffs features a new introduction by the poet Paul Vermeersch, a reprint of an extended interview with Dennis Lee about the book, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst....
17) The Grey Islands
Author
Language
English
Description
Since its first publication in 1985, The Grey Islands has become a classic of Canadian wilderness writing to set beside the works of Thoreau, Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold. Using a broad range of forms and styles – lyric, anecdote, field notes, documents and pseudo-documents, ghost story, tall tale – Steffler relates the story of one man's pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundland's northern peninsula. Often comic, and always deeply passionate...
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Language
English
Description
The Drowning Girls
Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events leading up to their deaths. Reflecting on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the not-so-happily ever after, The Drowning Girls is both a...
19) Hard Light
Author
Language
English
Description
On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1998, Hard Light retells and reimagines his father's and others' stories of outport Newfoundland and the...
20) Trace
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Language
English
Description
"I support you when you need, so that you support me when I need."
An elegant and sweeping story of a Chinese family's history, trace follows the footsteps of four generations as their homes and identities are, challenged. Jeff Ho brings life to his great grandmother, grandmother, and mother through considerate storytelling as they recount their pasts, leading to a paralleled present.
Great Grandmother fled the Japanese during World War II by escaping...
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