Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with. Her honeymoon was a four-month journey from Quebec to Pembina with a brigade of tough voyageurs, and she criss-crossed Canada with her fur...
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Author: Gordon, Irene TernierSummary: -
Author: Beauchemin, MélanieSummary:
Des Chambres de bois (1958) à Un habit de lumière (1999), les héroïnes d’Anne Hébert s’adonnent à une rêverie qui leur permet de plonger dans une autre vie. Elles explorent une révolte dont l’...
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Author: Skallerup Bessette, LeeSummary:This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert’s shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s...
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Author: Siggins, MaggieSummary:In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She...
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Author: McDonald, Anne; Moore, ChristopherSummary:History without the stiffness and polish time creates. Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of...
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Author: G'Orge-Walker, PatSummary:
On a road trip, Sister Betty and a gaggle of colorful characters discover what matters most. Sister Betty determines to carry out her friend's last wishes by delivering million-dollar checks to...
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Author: Farley, Audrey ClareSummary:
As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. In 1934,...
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Author: Dublin, AnneSummary:From the imagination of Anne Dublin come two novels for young people, exploring incredible moments in history. Includes: The Baby Experiment In the early 18th century in Hamburg, Germany, Johanna...
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Author: Alma, AnnSummary:Critically acclaimed children's author Ann Alma presents two beloved books for young people, gathered together in this special bundle. Shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award...
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Author: Wyile, HerbSummary:Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread...
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Author: White, JerrySummary:Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted...
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Author: Ireland, AnnSummary:This special 3-book bundle collects three masterful novel by one of Canada’s finest writers of literary fiction. A Certain Mr. Takahashi: To Mrs. Hopper, Yoshi Takahashi may be just another name...
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Author: Keller, HelenSummary:
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Author: Ingstad, BenedicteSummary:
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse...
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Author: Rhindress, CharlieSummary:
Best-selling music biographer Charlie Rhindress presents the lives and music of Nova Scotia’s six most important and successful women singers: Portia White, Anne Murray, Carroll Baker, Rita...