In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. Each essay dissects an aspect of Olding...
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Auteur: Olding, SusanSommaire:
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Auteur: Roberts, CleaSommaire:
With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North's past & present. Roberts deftly draws out the moments...
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Auteur: Ladha, YasminSommaire:
Its the early 1960s. Tanganyika is now Tanzania after centuries of British rule. And a six year old girl of Indian descent is uprooted from her family home in Tukuyu when her father is diagnosed...
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Auteur: Maracle, Lee.Sommaire:
Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.
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Auteur: Schnell, MelanieSommaire:
While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured...
Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Eicher, Jerry S.Sommaire:
During Susan's flight to the world of the Englisha, she finished her GED requirements, got a driver's license, and dated an Englisha man. But when she returned home to her small Amish community...
Genre: Romance fiction, Religious fiction -
Auteur: Warren, DianneSommaire:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and...
Genre: Pastoral fiction, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Guenther, LisaSommaire:
As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Auteur: Day, SylviaSommaire:
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Miguel Santos leaves his high-powered life behind for a visit to the small town he grew up in... and the high school sweetheart whose wild passion he's never...
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Auteur: Den Hartog, KristenSommaire:
Ruth grew too fast. A young girl over seven feet tall, she struggles to conceal the physical and mental symptoms of her rapid growth, to connect with other children, and to appease her parents,...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Paquette, AaronSommaire:
Aisling, a young Cree woman, sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows. They have to find and rescue her runaway younger brother, Eric....
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Auteur: Wilson, Judi TyabjiSommaire:
A political insider takes a revealing look at the public and private life of BC's controversial premier. In the blood-sport arena of provincial politics, BC's enigmatic premier, Christy Clark, has...
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Auteur: Brownlee, MaureenSommaire:
It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Juby, SusanSommaire:
Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass...
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Auteur: Daniels, CarolSommaire:
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy...