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"Night after night, Mackenzie's dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death- a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too - crows stalk her every move around the city; she gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina - Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone. Travelling north to her rural hometown...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tranquility, New Jersey's amateur drama troupe is staging a murder mystery at St. Winifred's Academy and Alberta Scaglione couldn't be more thrilled. Even her Italian-American famiglia are getting in on the act. But someone's making deadly revisions to the script." --Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When her granddaughter lands a reporting gig at the grand opening of the luxurious Icicle Lodge, Alberta and friends tag along for a week of much-needed R&R amid the snowcapped hills of northeastern Pennsylvania. But the idyllic winter getaway becomes a nightmare after the gang discovers blood on the ice--and the dead body of celebrity guest Pamela Gregory, a frosty Olympic gold medal figure skater who won herself more enemies than fans . . . With...
Author
Publisher
Nestucca Spit Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In her charming debut novel Alberta & The Spark, Jennifer Nightingale presents an unforgettable character, 13-year old Alberta Evans, whose love of nature is as boundless as her belief in the goodness of all people. Set in a Pacific Northwest oyster town in the 1970s, Alberta struggles with adolescence and finds courage through her unique friendship with 15-year-old Felix, a kindred spirit who approaches the natural world as a scientist, while she...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta 'Bert' Monte receives a letter addressed to 'Countess Alberta Montebianco' at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers appears a century and a half later in London, in pristine condition and crudely disguised as a Victorian carriage clock, new questions arise about what...
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Series
Leo Desroches mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Appointed an Aboriginal Issues reporter because of his half-Chee heritage, Leo Desroches struggles with a gambling addiction that threatens his family and career while covering the murder of a young native prostitute and triggering a violent chain of events
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1995, c1992
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to a guest ranch in Alberta after the death of her younger brother, sixteen-year-old Jessica slowly becomes aware of a ghostly link between her mother's grief and a long-ago tragedy at Willow Creek Ranch
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Season nine finds the Bartlett-Fleming clan navigating the new normal as each family member starts an exciting chapter, leaving past hurt and hardships behind. With the idyllic Alberta foothills as their backdrop, this tight knit family knows that any challenge can be met and every struggle can be overcome as long as they have each other. The season begins with Amy and Ty settling into married life while Lou faces the reality of single parenthood....
11) Creeboy
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Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Pâ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion has taken his place. Josh is unsure whether gang life is for him -- that is until Darion is killed during a run-in with a rival gang. Angry, hurt and frustrated by systemic racism against Indigenous peoples, Josh, now...
12) At summer's end
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl's country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets. From debut author Courtney Ellis comes a captivating novel about finding the courage to heal after the ravages of war. Alberta Preston accepts the commission of a lifetime when she receives an invitation from the Earl of Wakeford to spend a summer painting...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It continues to be a sprawling multi-generational saga about a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times. Against the glorious backdrop and stunning vistas of the foothills of Alberta, Heartland continues to tell stories about people who Canadians from across the country have grown to love and welcome into their homes.
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set against the stunning vistas of the Alberta Rocky Mountains, a sprawling family drama that follows teenaged horse whisperer Amy, through the highs and lows of life on a horse ranch.
Ty and Amy's pregnancy journey has some bumps along the way to the highly anticipated birth. Also, Mallory returns and Lou explores new business opportunities while holding her own as a single mom. With familiar faces returning and new paths forming, the Bartlett-Fleming...
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