On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless...
Mountain life
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Auteur:DeWitt, PatrickSommaire: -
Auteur:Newton, HeatherSommaire:Thirty years ago, Martin Owenby came to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Now his existence revolves around cheap Scotch and weekend flings with equally damaged men. When he learns that his older brother, Leon, has gone...
- Auteur:Burke, James LeeSommaire:
A young Kentucky miner grows up in the Appalachian Mountains, where he's torn between his family and the lure of the city.
- Auteur:Morgan, RobertSommaire:
Two brothers, Muir and Moody are as different as night and day and are always at odds. Muir searches for fulfillment with the church while Moody battles inner demons. Ginny, the boys' mother, struggles to keep the family together amidst...
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert WilliamSommaire:Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful,...
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Auteur:Boyle, MarkSommaire:Mark Boyle explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.
- Auteur:Rivers, FrancineSommaire:
Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, Rivers tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater, she...
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Auteur:Treggiari, JoSommaire:D and Spider have always been close friends, and they are further united in their shared heartbreak: they both lost siblings in a horrific plane crash two years earlier. A chance sighting of a beloved cuddly toy in a photograph of the...
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
Dr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado. It is a much-needed change of pace from her stressful life in Chicago. The only drawback is she misses her aunt Helen, the woman who raised her. But it's time that...
- Auteur:Blevins, WinfredSommaire:
Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier.
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At the request of a pregnant friend who wants her to deliver her baby, Dr. Cheney Duvall journeys to the remote and primitive wilds of the Ozarks and comes face to face with the illiteracy, superstitions, and hatred of the local...
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Sommaire:
Matt Jensen--reared by legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen--makes the mistake of riding into Purgatory, Arizona. Before he can even dismount his horse, he's arrested unjustly and sentenced to be hanged.
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless...
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Auteur:George, Jean CraigheadSommaire:"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."-The New York Times Book Review. Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live...
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Auteur:Glasnovic, JameySommaire:For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. After a long journey that began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with...
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Auteur:Wolfe, ThomasSommaire:The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose...
- Auteur:Maron, MargaretSommaire:
Deboray is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down--or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge far away in the state's high country. But human ugliness haunts the beauty of...
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Auteur:Spyri, JohannaSommaire:A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in...
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Auteur:Boudreau, JackSommaire:Long recognized as some of the roughest bush in British Columbia, it was home to many trappers and hunters who travelled the Fraser River and the Grand Trunk Railway to lose themselves in the bush.
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