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Audley Branch - Graphic Novel - Young Adult
YA FIC Beato
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YA FIC Beato
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Main Branch - Graphic Novel - Young Adult
Young Adult Graphic Novel FIC Bea
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Young Adult Graphic Novel FIC Bea
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
2) Greenwood
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A multigenerational family story that spans from before the first World War to the year 2038, in which a remote island off the coast of British Columbia links the fates of five people.
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A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montréal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec trusts her to teach the language. She needs to start making money, and fast. The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center as...
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When a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for help Noemi Taboada heads to a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Her cousin's husband is both menacing and alluring, and the ancient patriarch seems to be fascinated by Noemi. The house begins to invade Noemi's dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally is the family's youngest son. He seems to want to help Noemi, but could be hiding dark secrets of his family's past. As...
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Audley Branch - Adult
FIC Mande
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FIC Mande
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Main Branch - Adult
FIC Mande
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FIC Mande
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"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 theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who...