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Fans of the crime caper will rejoice that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his riotously funny and irreverent debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy. Well, not quite and now the Walkers have moved home only to find themselves living in the precarious crosshairs of urban sprawl once again, and Zack can't help but be worried, really worried that just around the corner lurks the presence of some really bad guys.

Seventeen-year-old Sydney Blake's summer is shaping up to be typical for a teenager: she's spending it with her father, and she has landed a part-time job at a local hotel. One night, Syd fails to come home from her shift, and her father Tim is a bit alarmed. However, that alarm turns to full-on panic after he visits the Just Inn Time hotel and the manager claims that Syd has never worked there. Grilling his daughter's friends for clues leads Tim nowhere except to threats against his life and as he frantically chases every lead, he can't help but wonder if Syd is even still alive.

En Nouvelle-Écosse, sur les rives de la Baie Sainte-Marie, le fantôme d'un sorcier malfaisant revient hanter une communauté acadienne... qui n'en est pas à un mystère près ! Les Trois Mousquetaires, Gabriel, Ania, Mamadou, sans oublier leur fidèle chien Dali, quittent donc le Nouveau-Brunswick pour cette huitième aventure palpitante. Avec l'aide de mamie Georgette, du professeur Jarnigoine et d'un sosie un peu ridicule d'Indiana Jones, cette petite équipe réussira-t-elle à vaincre un revenant maléfique ? Et ce, avant que les malheurs ne se multiplient ?.

TLes Trois Mousquetaires devraient se prélasser sur les plages de Shédiac, au Nouveau-Brunswick, mais Gabriel ne peut s'empêcher de s'imaginer les pires scénarios autour d'une île qui ne porte pas seulement un nom étrange. L'Île-au-Crâne, aux dires des gens des environs, recèle des ossements humains. Et puis, il y a Roland et son chiac ! Opérateur d'excursions touristiques, il est très sympathique et chaleureux, mais parfois, son comportement est étrange. D'ailleurs, il a peut-être été un peu trop rapide à offrir de transporter les enfants sur l'île.

Hello toes, our tootsie friends. Hello, summer feet again! Canada's Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking over rocks and pebbles, to wandering-wild while searching for sea glass and, finally, huddled-up cozy at a late-summer bonfire, these summer feet flutter kick, somersault, hide-and-seek, and dance in the rain, soaking up all the season has to offer.

Adapted from family stories told across Newfoundland and passed down over generations, these 10 spine-tingling tales traverse centuries and introduce readers to nooks and the Island's nooks and crannies. This spooky collection features black-and-white illustrations as well as traditional context on each story and the art of storytelling in Newfoundland.

Born into a basket of clean sheets - ruining a perfectly good load of laundry - Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in England. Now she is retired and living in a small coastal town with her best friend, Vera, an excellent conversationalist. Vera is also a small white dog, and so Emmeline is making an effort to talk to more humans.

In this coming-of-age story, sixteen-year-old Winnie and her three best friends-all boys-find themselves changing quickly and dramatically to impress Caleb, their strange and charismatic new companion. Under Caleb's influence, Winnie and her friends test boundaries, flirt with danger, and in the end, illuminate darkness within each other and themselves. Throw Down Your Shadows is a compelling exploration of the contours of young friendship and the development of powerful new appetites.

Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender, race, and class dynamics. Alisha and Diana are young sisters living at Jane and Finch, a Toronto suburb full of immigrants trying to build new lives in North America. Diana, the eldest, is the light of the little family, the one Alisha longs to emulate more than anyone else.

In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day of high school, graduation day, wedding, and ending with the birth of her own child. With gentle watercolours and fold-out letters for sharing with loved ones, Always With You is a timeless story about grief, growing up, and finding that those we love never truly leave us.