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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
This thrilling adventure begins after a sea kayaking trip takes a dangerous turn and Tom Parker is stranded on the remote, outer coast of the unpopulated Bear Island in the rough terrains of the Alaskan wilderness. With only a small survival kit in his pocket, Tom finds himself soaked and freezing, and worst of all alone. Desperate to find his father, Tom doesn't know how long he can survive and he must put his skills to the test as he fights to reach...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 20 cm
Description
"Lonely Planet's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all that the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore the Bay of Fundy's mud flats, walk around Halifax and follow The Viking Trail; all with your trusted travel companion."
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, readers will be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novel "Anne of Green Gables." Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley. The lush package includes Montgomery's hand-colourized photographs, the illustrations originally used in Anne of Green Gables,...
7) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
12) The Red Door Inn
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Series
Prince Edward Island dreams volume 1
Description
Broke and desperate, Marie Carrington is hoping to find safety and sanctuary on Prince Edward Island, where she reluctantly agrees to help decorate a renovated bed-and-breakfast before it opens for prime tourist season. Seth Sloane didn't move three thousand miles to work on his uncle's B&B so he could babysit a woman with a taste for expensive antiques ; he came to help restore the old Victorian-- and to forget about the fiancée who broke his heart....
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Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 2
Description
"When Eli Ross left Prince Edward Island to join the NHL, he left a broken family behind. More than a decade later, he's broke and headed home to an uncertain welcome. He wants to make things right with the family he wronged, but his mom's business partner isn't making it easy. To top it off, the coaching job he's accepted turns out to be far more difficult than he anticipated.For years, Violet Donaghy has put everything she had into making Eli's...
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Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 3
Description
"Kelsey Ahern has performed at the Victoria Playhouse on Prince Edward Island since she was seven. When a hurricane destroys the building, she teams up with Levi Ross, the facilities director at the high school, to produce a benefit show to raise money to rebuild the theater. For his part, Levi has admired Kelsey for years, but he can't seem to find the words to tell her. When a popular weatherman arrives to cover the aftermath of the hurricane and...
16) Beyond the tides
Author
Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 1
Description
"When Meg Whitaker's father decides to sell the family's lobster-fishing business to her high school nemesis, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. Though she's never had any interest in running the small fleet--or even getting on a boat due to her persistent seasickness--she can't stand to see Oliver Ross take over. Not when he ruined her dreams for a science scholarship and an Ivy League education ten years ago.Oliver isn't proud...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
289 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Equipped with a fan's admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries--each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time. When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs...
19) Anne arrives
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the Cuthberts at risk--particularly if nosy neighbor Mrs. Lynde has...
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Series
Prince Edward Island dreams volume 3
Description
Natalie O'Ryan had no plans to return to Prince Edward Island. Then her fiancé books their wedding in her hometown and schedules a summer at Rose's Red Door Inn, so she sets out to plan the perfect wedding. What she can't plan for is a run-in with Justin Kane -- the best friend she left behind. Justin has never forgotten Natalie. He was ready to follow her off the island until tragedy struck, leaving him to run the family dairy farm. But with Natalie...
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