A cast of adventurers take part in the Abyssinian War. They include an Italian flying ace seeking glory, an English safari hunter who wants to recuperate his wife from the flying ace, a German who...
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Author: Bull, BartleSummary: -
Author: Chesney, MarionSummary:The sisters conspire to find an appropriate match for their youngest sister, Frederica. Sequel to "Diana the huntress".
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Author: Barker, RaffaellaSummary:
Venetia suddenly finds herself a single mother of three and must bring every ounce of wit and resource into play as she strives to hold together her newly lopsided family. Through her diary we...
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Author: Gilman, DorothySummary:
Mrs. Pollifax embarks on a dangerous journey across the barren stretches of Morocco, determined to identify and warn the informants, but only one step ahead of her pursuers.
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Author: Christie, AgathaSummary:
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to...
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Author: Baldwin, Shauna SinghSummary:
A story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan, code name "Madeleine", who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi...
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Author: Bridge, Kathryn AnneSummary:
Four nineteenth century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge...
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Author: Keene, Thelma RuckSummary:The author relives an extraordinary life, often at odds with the fog of convention surrounding religion, class distinctions, sex and war. During WWII she free lances her secretarial skill from the...
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Author: Gordon, KatherineSummary:
The remarkable story of Princess Peggy Abkhazi, co-founder of the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria, B.C. Adopted by a wealthy English taipan and his wife, she studied in Paris, lived in Shanghai in the...
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Author: Coupland, DouglasSummary:
The fourteen stories in this collection present the essence of Vancouver as captured by some of Canada's most famous writers, including Pauline Johnson, Douglas Coupland, Alice Munro, Timother...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Freir, PamSummary:
The author travels from her childhood Nova Scotia home where she collects periwinkles to be eaten with a pin, to Toronto, where she discovers pizza and the miracle of canned cream of mushroom soup...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
The portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver's Chinatown, where history repeats itself through the generations. Abandoned by her sisters, jobless and stuck in a city...
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Author: Thien, MadeleineSummary:Her parents' hidden past in wartorn Asia continues to shadow Gail Lim's life. When she meets a man who was a war photographer in Jakarta, she is brought closer to the truth she's been seeking....
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction