In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget about his ex-wife...
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Author: Janz, JonathanSummary:Genre: Horror fiction, Historical fiction
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Author: Pittman, JudeSummary:
David and Sarah Kirke live in a time of upheaval under the reign of King Charles I who gives, then takes. He gives David the nod of approval to range up and down the French Canadian shores,...
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Author: Hall, Sarah, Hobbs, PeterSummary:
“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death. The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for...
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Author: Whitecalf, SarahSummary:
Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the...
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Author: Gareau, LaurierSummary:
Eric Lechasseur est professeur de littérature française, Sa femme, Amanda, d'origine ukrainienne, l'a quitté après 25 ans de mariage, Leur fille, Mona, prépare une maîtrise en « English...
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Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.Summary:
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these classic BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' Golden Age crime novels. Gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey starred in a number of...
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Author: Chase-Riboud, BarbaraSummary:
Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the “...
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Author: Hopkinson, Nalo, Ryman, GeoffSummary:
Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada’s writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and...
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Author: Barr, DamianSummary:
South Africa, 1901: At the height of the Second Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise, they will...
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Author: Bryan, DMSummary:
When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved canine embarks on an inquiry to make sense of the...
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Author: Harvey, Sarah N.Summary:
Combining evocative haiku, informative text and luminous illustrations, The West Is Calling is a celebration, for our youngest readers, of one hundred and fifty years of British Columbia's history...
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Author: HAY, SarahSummary:
Story of an English woman shipwrecked off the WA coast in the 1830's.
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Author: Sundin, SarahSummary:
As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books...
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Author: Yakeleya ElizabethSummary:
A work in progress since the 1970s, We Remember the Coming of the White Man chronicles the history of the Dene People in the extraordinary time of the early 20th century. Chapters are transcripts...
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Author: Antane Kapesh, AnSummary:
"The book contains two works in English translation (the original Innu appears en face throughout), and these deal with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system...