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A good girl's guide to murder

Jackson, Holly, 1992-,


Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can’t shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn’t want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.
Date Published:2025

Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can’t shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn’t want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.

Date Published:2025

Canada should apologize for forced adoptions : Senate report


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Between 1945 and 1971, an estimated 350,000 Canadian women were forced to give up their babies for adoption because they weren't married.
Date Published:2018

Wonder

Palacio, R. J.,


Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Date Published:2012

Sous la lune de corbeau : B_a'naboy' la_xa _Gwa'wina 'M_akw_ala = Beneath Raven moon

Bouchard, Dave, 1952-


"Corbeau est faiseur de tours. Corbeau est le créateur. Corbeau est le transformateur. Corbeau peut être tout et partout. Mais n'oublions jamais que Corbeau est aussi... le marieur." (cf. quatrième de couverture). Le disque propose la narration de l'histoire en français, en kwakwala et en anglais. [SDM].
Date Published:2012

Les Canadiens noirs et les guerres mondiales

D'Souza, Brian J., 1981-,


Traduction de : Black Canadians in Canada's World Wars. Discute de la vie et des réalisations des Canadiens noirs qui ont servi dans l'armée canadienne, malgré la discrimination, pendant les guerres mondiales.
Date Published:2024

Hostage Diplomacy : The Return of the Two Michaels. November 2021


From the Curio channel: News in Review. For almost three years, two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were held prisoner in a Chinese jail. They were charged with espionage. Their arrests came just 10 days after Canada detained a Chinese citizen, Meng Wanzhou, at Vancouver airport at the request of the United States. Meng, who acted as chief financial officer for tech giant Huawei, is also the daughter of its billionaire founder. The U.S., which imposes restrictions on activities with Iran, wanted her extradited for facilitating trade with the country. While Meng served out her time in her mansion in Vancouver, the two Canadians survived in tiny windowless cells - pawns in a game of hostage diplomacy.
Date Published:2021

From the Curio channel: News in Review. For almost three years, two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, were held prisoner in a Chinese jail. They were charged with espionage. Their arrests came just 10 days after Canada detained a Chinese citizen, Meng Wanzhou, at Vancouver airport at the request of the United States. Meng, who acted as chief financial officer for tech giant Huawei, is also the daughter of its billionaire founder. The U.S., which imposes restrictions on activities with Iran, wanted her extradited for facilitating trade with the country. While Meng served out her time in her mansion in Vancouver, the two Canadians survived in tiny windowless cells - pawns in a game of hostage diplomacy.

Date Published:2021

A thousand nights

Johnston, E. K.,


Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, so when she is taken to the king's dangerous court she believes death will soon follow, but night after night Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, leading her to unlocking years of fear that have tormented and silenced the kingdom, and soon she is dreaming of bigger, more terrible magic, power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to rule of a monster.
Date Published:2016

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, so when she is taken to the king's dangerous court she believes death will soon follow, but night after night Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, leading her to unlocking years of fear that have tormented and silenced the kingdom, and soon she is dreaming of bigger, more terrible magic, power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to rule of a monster.

Date Published:2016

Sour cherries : an Afghan family story

Azaad, Dezh.


An Afghan child learns to make sour cherry jam, stew, and tea with his mother, just like she learned from her mother.
Date Published:2024

One piece. 2, Buggy the Clown /

Oda, Eiichirō, 1975-


This graphic novel contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen Jump #5 and all of Shonen Jump #6-9. In keeping with the original Japanese format, this book reads from back to front and from right to left. As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world!
Date Published:2003

This graphic novel contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen Jump #5 and all of Shonen Jump #6-9. In keeping with the original Japanese format, this book reads from back to front and from right to left. As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world!

Date Published:2003

Clues to climate change in Arctic lakes and rivers


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Biologist and diatom expert Paul Hamilton finds clues about climate change by studying tiny life forms in the Arctic's lakes and rivers. Hamilton talks about his work examining microscopic life in the Arctic.
Date Published:2013

High school debut

Kawahara, Kazune.


Back in junior high, Haruna Nagashima was only interested in two things: softball and manga. Now that she's starting high school, Haruna's focus has changed--she wants to snag a boyfriend and have the romance of her dreams! After blindly following the advice of fashion magazines and the like, Haruna fails to win the eye of any guy. Convinced that a coach is needed (just like when she trained for softball), she recruits cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!
Date Published:2008

Back in junior high, Haruna Nagashima was only interested in two things: softball and manga. Now that she's starting high school, Haruna's focus has changed--she wants to snag a boyfriend and have the romance of her dreams! After blindly following the advice of fashion magazines and the like, Haruna fails to win the eye of any guy. Convinced that a coach is needed (just like when she trained for softball), she recruits cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!

Date Published:2008

Chloe Cooley (version française)


Cette Minute du patrimoine raconte l’histoire de Chloe Cooley, une femme noire asservie du Haut-Canada en 1793. Ses actes de résistance face à la violence ont mené à la première loi canadienne limitant l’esclavage.
Date Published:2022

Dark inside

Roberts, Jeyn


After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.
Date Published:2011

Whisper

Struyk-Bonn, Christina.


In a society that kills or abandons anyone with a disability, Whisper, a teen girl with a cleft palate is forced to survive.
Date Published:2014

All my rage

Tahir, Sabaa,


A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah's health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle's liquor store while hiding the fact that she's applying to college so she can escape him--and Juniper--forever. When Sal's attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth--and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst. From one of today's most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness--one that's both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.
Date Published:2022

A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah's health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle's liquor store while hiding the fact that she's applying to college so she can escape him--and Juniper--forever. When Sal's attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth--and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst. From one of today's most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness--one that's both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.

Date Published:2022

Wrong side of the court

Khan, H. N.,


Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother. But Fawad has plans: like, asking out Ashley, even though she lives on the other, wealthier side of the tracks, and saving his friend Arif from being beaten into a pulp for being the school flirt, and making the school basketball team and dreaming of being the world’s first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. All he has to do now is convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. And let him date girls from his school. Not to mention somehow get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone . . .
Date Published:2022

Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother. But Fawad has plans: like, asking out Ashley, even though she lives on the other, wealthier side of the tracks, and saving his friend Arif from being beaten into a pulp for being the school flirt, and making the school basketball team and dreaming of being the world’s first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. All he has to do now is convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. And let him date girls from his school. Not to mention somehow get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone . . .

Date Published:2022

Red hot


Luna and her family are on a beach in France. When Jupiter gets a red spot where he didn't put his sunblock on correctly, it gets Luna wondering... how does sunblock protect us from the sun? During the investigation, they discover something unexpected about birds and UV rays! Learning Objectives: Understand how sunblock works and discover what UV rays are.
Date Published:2019

Charming as a verb

Philippe, Ben


Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for...
Date Published:2020

Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for...

Date Published:2020

The poet X

Acevedo, Elizabeth,



Date Published:2020

Junie : a novel

Knight, Chelene, 1981-


A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood--once gushing with potential--begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves. Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent--not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within.
Date Published:2022

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood--once gushing with potential--begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves. Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent--not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within.

Date Published:2022