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1) Messenger
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Giver quartet volume 3
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Narrator Mashkawaji lies frozen in the ice finding freedom in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven primary characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and...
3) Witch trial
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Violet Mooney, owner of The Full Moon crystal shop, has inherited magical powers that she doesn't understand from both sides of her family, but when a reporter investigating her and a customer in her shop both turn up dead, she taps into these powers to help her solve the crimes.
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At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward....
5) Ache
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A year ago, a devastating bushfire ripped Annie's world apart - killing her grandmother, traumatising her young daughter and leaving her mother's home in the mountains half destroyed. Annie fled back to the city, but the mountain continues to haunt her. Now, drawn by a call for help from her uncle, she's going back to the place she loves most in the world, to try to heal herself, her marriage, her daughter and her mother.
7) What we find
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
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"When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned....
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The Shadow Doctor isn't your usual kind of doctor. Sure, you can bring him your problems - but the chances are his solutions will blow your mind. This man can see into your soul, and the cures he prescribes don't come from the pharmacy. If you have fears you just cannot face, wounds you can't even bear to remember - if you've been abused, ignored, damaged by all life throws at you - the Shadow Doctor is here to help. But the Shadow Doctor has shades...
9) Adeline
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"A small Midwestern community becomes the epicenter for miracles when a mysterious woman brings a healing horse to town."--www.imdb.com.
10) The healer
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Marlena Oliveira has been given an extraordinary gift. She has been given the power to heal. She can cure paralysis, mental illness, even a broken heart. People with all kinds of ailments come from around the world seeking audiences with her, believing her to be a saint. But her power comes at a price. Marlena can't have friends or go to school. She can't date. She can't even touch anyone. The older she gets, the more trapped she feels. Then Marlena...
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In the early 1800s, a Nova Scotian couple arrives on the shores of an island in Vanuatu, with a mission to convert the Indigenous peoples to Christianity to act as penance for their own sins. These strangers bring exchange and friction, cooperation and violence. Two hundred years later, the Stewarts are a Toronto family grieving the drowning of their younger son. Oldest son Zach is feels guilt of not being there for his brother. When his mother Michelle...
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"Rebecca Wells has done it again….A new book full of Southern charm and unique characters…impossible to put down."
-Houston Chronicle
"Wells weaves that magic spell again."
-New Orleans Times-Picayune
For Ya-Ya fans everywhere, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Wells returns with The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder. The creator of the literary sensations Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere,...
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Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own?
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted...
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted...
15) Double threat
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Daley has a problem. Her 26-year life so far has been unconventional, to say the least, but now she's got this voice in her head. It claims to be a separate entity that's going to be sharing her body from now on. At first she thinks she's gone schizophrenic, then considers the possibility that maybe she really has been invaded -- but by what? Medical tests turn up nothing, yet the voice persists... and won't stop talking! When she finally she accepts...
16) Unbridled
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"A true to life story that exposes the atrocities of abuse, neglect, and trauma and the healing and redemption experienced by girls and horses who have suffered the same types of abuse."--www.imdb.com.
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Bibliotherapy: Social Justice
Canada Reads 2022: Longlist
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
Canada Reads 2022: Longlist
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
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WINNER: Canada Reads 2022
WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award
WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize
Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize
Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize
Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards
National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple
...19) The circle
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"From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Strangers comes a poignant and unflinching epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that explores the fallout when one person who connects them all goes missing in Winnipeg. The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. Phoenix's release causes a ripple effect through the community. M, the young girl...
20) Tess of the road
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In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. As her family plans to send her to a nunnery, Tess cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey.
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