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1) Cat's eye
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
446 p.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With The Guilty Plea, a gripping sequel to the international bestseller Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller with an explosive conclusion.
On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto's Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to death in the kitchen of his luxurious home. Detective Ari Greene arrives minutes before the press and finds Wyler's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A noted criminal defense attorney, Robert Rotenberg delivers a courtroom drama that successfully evokes the multicultural city of Toronto even as it keeps readers on the edges of their seats. In the tale, the "Voice of Canada" radio host confesses to murder-but the case is far from closed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the latest thrilling crime novel from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg, Homicide Detective Ari Greene discovers the bludgeoned body of Toronto's most reviled developer behind his controversial new construction site. When Detective Ari Greene was charged with the murder of the woman he loved, he stopped at nothing to clear his name and uncover the real killer. After his acquittal, Greene fled to London to get away from it all, but now he's back....
6) Stranglehold
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's just after Labour Day and the city is kicking back into gear. All eyes are on the hotly contested election for Toronto's next mayor and crime is the big issue. Greene is no stranger to the worst of what the city has to offer, but even he is unprepared for what happens next when he stumbles upon a horrific homicide.
7) Sketches
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After running away from home, fifteen-year-old Dana finds friends on the Toronto streets, and, eventually, a way to come to terms with what has happened to her.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In a near-future Toronto where the British Empire never fell, Helena, August, and Margaret are caught off-guard by the discovery of a love so intense they are willing to change the course of the monarchy to keep it.
9) Acceleration
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
10) Fight night
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to find the man she's known and loved for years and recently married is not actually her husband. Her doctors call it false memory: recollections Lucy's mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma. Faced with reality, Lucy must now decide which life she wants to lead"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
13) Station eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Quinten Aspinall is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father to keep his family together. To do so, he must travel to Canada to find his younger siblings, who were sent there as indentured workers while Quinn was away at war. He is also solicited by his employer to look for the man's niece who ran off with a Canadian soldier. If Quinn can bring Julia back, he will receive his own tenant farm, enabling him to provide a home for...