Divorced and approaching forty, Jeff Mott decides to leave his ex-wife and young daughter behind in Canada and travel to China. He starts teaching in a small town north of Beijing, and meets a young woman, Wang Bian Fu, and falls in...
Canadians
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Author:Jarman, MarkSummary:On August 22, 1922, near Macroom, County Cork, a single bullet from an unknown gunman killed Michael Collins, the Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army. The day Collins was buried, businesses across Dublin shut down as...
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Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage. For a time, she does her woman’s work,...
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum)....
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Author:Robertson, RaySummary:Peter Bayle - heavy drinker, philosopher to-be, anemic lover - somehow finds himself in Kansas, writing a feature article on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets, among others, a morphine-injecting Reverend, a...
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Author:Shannon, AnneSummary:In contrast to the widely known experiences of Asian immigrants who came to Canada, this book looks at movement in the opposite direction. Using text and images, it is a collection of stories about how Canadians “found Japan,” the first...
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Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:On the islands of Java and Bali in the early 1980s, Western governments are pouring millions of dollars into development schemes even as Indonesian strongman President Suharto violently stifles dissent. For Canadian veterinarian Abner...
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Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
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À la fin des années 50, dans la petite ville canadienne de Spring Bay, Angèle étouffe. Un jour, son existence bascule lorsqu’un patient lui offre un poste d’infirmière dans une luxueuse résidence américaine. L’ambition et le désir d’...
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Author:Engel, HowardSummary:After more than twenty years, Mike Ward is back. Older and a lot wise, he's been sent by the Canadian wire service to cover the spoiled children and their controlling parents: the actors and producers of Hollywood. It's 1940....
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Thirtysomething Nicky Fowler has it all-- a rewarding career, a loving husband and the perfect home. But when she and her husband suffer a complicated tragedy, the strain of two people dealing with an impossible situation in different...
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Author:Stewart, Sharon, Butts, Edward, Sadlier, RosemarySummary:Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada's present-day multicultural society. In the...
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Will Ferguson’s first book in three years, following on the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour).
Will Ferguson has spent the past three...
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Author:Thapa, ManjushreeSummary:A beautiful story of strangers who shape each other's lives in fateful ways, All of Us in Our Own Lives delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid.Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer,...
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Author:Johnston, WayneSummary:A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance, dreams that threaten to overpower their makers, and unlikely romance. It is an astounding work of...
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Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the Holocaust. When Alison notices a tattoo on...
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