Canada
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Auteur:Connor, RalphSommaire:Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber...
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Auteur:Durkin, DouglasSommaire:Craig Forrester is newly home following World War I, newly married, and newly mired in social upheaval. Will he choose complacency alongside his peers, or his personal moral code? Originally published in 1923, The Magpie is a social...
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Auteur:Curtis, Christopher PaulSommaire:Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
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Auteur:Cook, TimSommaire: - Auteur:Davies, RobertsonSommaire:
Book 3 of the Cornish Trilogy
The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish, whose vast...
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Auteur:Davies, RobertsonSommaire:When the Cornish Foundation decides to fund the production of an opera entitled Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold, the participants find their lives begin to resemble the opera's plot.
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Auteur:Rauhala, AnnSommaire:“What a lucky girl!” Everybody who has adopted a daughter from China has heard that one. And every parent has said, or thought, in reply: “No, we’re the lucky ones.” This anthology sets out to explain why people who have adopted...
- Auteur:BOYLE, Harry J.Sommaire:
Warm humerous story about an Irish-Canadian farming community. a good old-fashioned easy paced story with a happy ending and a few surprises.
- Auteur:MOORE, BrianSommaire:
"No, for wasn't this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn't he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and...
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Auteur:Ward, DavidSommaire:Part biography, part memoir, and all catharsis Jim Harrison grew up on the prairies, played Junior in Saskatchewan, and pro with the Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, and Oilers. Three years before a former teammate equaled the mark, Harrison set...
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Auteur:Frey, CeceliaSommaire:On a remote lonely mountain, Constance (frustrated poet) skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein (brilliant author) loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson (the ex-husband who won the GG) is the...
- Auteur:Sullivan, JoanSommaire:
On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the top on that fateful day—and survived....
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Auteur:Roy, Zoë S.Sommaire:The Long March Home tells the story of three generations of women. Agnes, a young Canadian goes to China as a missionary, and falls in love with a Chinese medical student. Growing anti-western sentiment forces her to return...
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Auteur:Bartlett, Robert A.Sommaire:Each year, thousands of people visit Bob Bartlett’s boyhood home located in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, to catch a glimpse of this famous sealing captain’s amazing life. Hawthorne Cottage has been designated a National Historic...
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Auteur:Kusugak, Michael, Krykorka, Vladyana, Gould, HeatherSommaire:Igvillu is a little dog with big dreams. One of her favorite dreams is of becoming a sled dog. When Igvillu is adopted from her kennel by an Inuit storyteller and moves to northern Canada, she comes face-to-face with real sled dogs....
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Auteur:Soucy, Gaetan, Fischman, SheilaSommaire:The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, originally published in French as La Petite Fille qui Aimait Trop les Alumettes, dominated the bestseller lists and captured major media attention when it appeared in Quebec. It was the first...
- Auteur:Hitchins, ShawnSommaire:
A Publishers Weekly Notable Book 49th Shelf Recommended Read. A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery - raw...
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Auteur:Landry, JaniceSommaire:Halifax author and journalist Janice Landry returns to her roots, as she revisits high-profile Canadian police investigations she covered as a novice television reporter during the 1980s and 1990s. One story involves the unsolved murder...
- Auteur:Evans, Paul A.Sommaire:
Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established...
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