Parry Sound Public Library
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9780735281639
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2021
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Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, hopes to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, he meets the captivating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and claims he was in the Dutch resistance. When the war ended, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met his wife, Myra, had his daughters and worked as an accounting professor at the University of Cape Town. Something occurred, though, that caused him to move his family, unhappily, to Newfoundland. Wade soon finds that Rachel and her sisters are all troubled in their own way. The oldest, Gloria, has a number of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to drugs. Bethany has anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank compulsively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own making, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond--an obsession that has deeper and more alarming roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
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9780593191224
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2021
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Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda -- one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see its completion. With millions of dollars and the fates of two nations at stake, Bell heads to Panama to find answers. After a deadly bombing at the canal's construction site, he is determined to stop the insurgents -- or whoever is funding them -- before they can attack again.
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