In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and...
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Author: Crewe, LesleySummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction
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Author: Smid, GwenSummary:
Zip and zoom with Mary, a mischevious yet particularly practical eight-year-old with a magical atlas. Marvellous critters, such as a flying bison named Bou, help Mary as she searches for the...
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Author: Grannan, Mary, Hume, Margaret AnneSummary:
For twenty-three years during the golden age of radio in Canada, stories for children by Mary Grannan, "Just Mary," were broadcast by CBC and beloved across the country. She retired from...
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Author: Travers, P. L.Summary:
The timeless story of Mary Poppins, the world's favorite nanny, and her magical adventures with the Banks family. Mary Poppins is like no other nanny the Banks children have ever seen. It all...
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Author: Desjardins, SergineSummary:
1684, en Nouvelle-France. Libertinage, meurtre, procès, emprisonnement, injustice... Marie Major, une jeune fille à l'esprit indépendant, jouit à Paris d'une vie simple, mais vibrante de culture,...
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Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria IsabelSummary:
This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at...
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Author: Krull, KathleenSummary:
Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning, from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. But her work, which led to the atomic age in science, was also...
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Author: Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his...
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Author: Meyer, CarolynSummary:
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
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Author: Dalpé, MichelineSummary:
À Grand-Pré, en 1755, Marie Labasque mène une existence rude, mais paisible, sur la ferme de son père. Tout le village se réjouit de ses récentes fiançailles avec le vaillant Nicolas...
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Author: de la Roche, MazoSummary:
First published in 1949, in Mary Wakefield, the third book in the Jalna series, a young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip's motherless children. When...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Kerr, MelanieSummary:
Mary Green, obscure orphan and ward of the wealthy Hargreaves family, has always accepted her inferior position with grace, humility, and gratitude. When she discovers that her only friend is to...
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Author: McCarthy, CormacSummary:
Summary:The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young...
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Author: Hebert, Louis-PhilippeSummary:
Marie Réparatrice, c'est cette petite fille de huit ans qui découvre qu'elle a un don. Quelque chose d'unique lui permet de faire ce qu'on aurait appelé autrefois des miracles. Et ces miracles se...
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Author: Massicotte, StephenSummary:
Presented in a brand-new edition with a new introduction and updated script, revisit the play that is being produced over and over again throughout the world.
Genre: Canadian drama