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Hatchet meets Maybe a Fox in this "gripping, suspenseful" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about Edgar, a boy who has lost the ability to speak and can only bark, and his dog Benjamin as they travel through the freezing Yukon wilderness in order to stop Edgar's mother from making a huge mistake.Eleven-year-old Edgar's mom is making him move. Again. This time, they're headed to a tiny town in the Yukon called Dawson, Alaska. For once, tho...

Man of Bone has the power of a thriller, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a complex portrait of an ordinary man jerked into the horrors of terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife, and their son move to the "island paradise" of Santa Irene on Bill's first posting as a Canadian diplomat. At the short-staffed embassy, he struggles with work he scarcely understands. Ten days later, driving alone on a supposedly safe highway, he is kidnapped by r...

After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building a human-rights organization to stand watch over the world's most troubled areas. Yet, plagued by memories of his incarceration and by the strain of his disintegrating marriage, he is a man struggling to hold his life together. When a democratic revolution...

Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who tweaks into florescence a lon...

Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start. When Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.

Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he's blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine's spiky hair, her milky white shoulders, and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath,...

Prepare to be blown away—or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings—by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new...pterodactyl...at school. After all, everybody wants him!Shiels is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the Student Body Chai...

Prepare to be blown away—or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings—by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new...pterodactyl...at school. After all, everybody wants him!Shiels is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the Student Body Chai...

Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he's blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine's spiky hair, her milky white shoulders and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath, ...

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In the follow-up to "The Secret Life of Owen Skye, " boyish antics give way to more reflective encounters, and Owen learns it will take all of his imagination and courage to face the greatest adventure of all: growing up.

The Skye brothers -- skinny, quiet, big-eared Owen and his smart older brother Andy -- live in a rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, a shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement and takes out his teeth at night. On his way home from hockey practice one evening, Owen catches a glimpse of a girl named Sylvia. He falls hopelessly in love, and Valentine's Day turns into one big disaster. Thank goodness for life at home, w...

Now in paperback, "Dear Sylvia" is a sequel to "The Secret Life of Owen Skye" (winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award) and "After Sylvia." Much to his despair, Owen Skye watches his true love, Sylvia Tull, move away. But he still has the stationery set she gave him for his birthday, so at least he can keep telling her stories, even if it's only by mail. So Owen begins to write down all the things that are going on: his little brother getting ...

Three weeks into his first diplomatic posting in the "island paradise" of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge is jerked into terrorism by a disorganized gang of revolutionaries. Under torture, he yearns for death, but he can't conquer his will to live, clinging to sanity by recreating scenes from a peaceful past made luminous by present horror. His hypnotic voice, often edged with dark humour, takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to the depths and pe...

The rooftop was where my father was the most comfortable, where he could be tall and survey life among the quiet chimneys, the broken shingles, the weathered skin of protection between families and the sky." Between Families and the Sky is a two-part novel about love in all its mysterious forms. "The Hole in the Kitchen Floor" tells the story of James Kinnell's teenage years -- his grandfather's permanent visit, his mother's new romance after ...