Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances emerges Stella, a woman who grapples with her family ghosts as...
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- Author:Lundrigan, NicoleSummary:
- Author:Ferguson, Barry, Wardhaugh, RobertSummary:
The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalisminvestigates the groundbreaking inquiry launched to reconstruct the federal system - revealing its impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its...
- Author:Kroll, BobSummary:
For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father's greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife's death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his...
- Author:Normandeau, Sheryl, Melrose, JanetSummary:
Lifelong gardeners Sheryl and Janet are here with answers to all of your big questions about small-space gardening including which types of growing media to use in containers or raised beds, how to properly fertilize and water your...
- Author:Normandeau, Sheryl, Melrose, JanetSummary:
Certified master gardeners Sheryl and Janet offer you all the tools you need to start seeds, ensuring they thrive and grow into beautiful mature plants. They answer your questions on things like how to determine the viability of seeds,...
- Author:Munsch, RobertSummary:
Over seven million copies in print! When the fiercest dragon in the whole world smashes Princess Elizabeth's castle, burns all her clothes, and captures her fiancé, Prince Ronald, Elizabeth takes matters into her own hands. With her...
- Author:Morris, LydiaSummary:
Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare...
- Author:Janess, DanielleSummary:
"A vibrating journey across time and the borders of memory and space to voice what was unvoiced, to restore the pieces of a broken world." Tomasz Rózycki, author of Colonies.
- Author:Rutkoski, MarieSummary:
Set in the world of the New York Times –bestselling Winner's Trilogy, Marie Rutkoski's The Midnight Lie is an epic LGBTQ romantic fantasy about learning to free ourselves from the lies others tell us—and the lies we tell...
- Author:Matthews, JamesSummary:
The Mean Time is a work of literary fiction set in Corner Brook about how people allow their pasts to shape and define them – in holding on to dread, regret, and pain. The death of Will Johnston shakes the community to its foundations,...
- Author:Sullivan, JoanSummary:
On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the top on that fateful day—and survived....
- Author:Young, Jennifer, Young, AdamSummary:
"In The Little Red Shed, by Adam Young and Jennifer Young, a shed goes on a journey (really!) and comes home to realize just how important it is to cherish what makes us different.".
- Author:Evans, Paul A.Summary:
Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established...
- Author:Fitzhugh, LynneSummary:
Explorer Jacques Cartier dismissed it as the land God gave to Cain, but generations of people from widely differing cultures living in dense wilde ess conditions have forged the people of Labrador into a thriving, vital culture of their...
- Author:Emery, AnneSummary:
The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of...
- Author:Fitzgerald, JackSummary:
The Jack Ford Story: The Newfoundlander in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival. In 1940, Jack Ford was an employee of the Newfoundland Railway in a remote settlement of Newfoundland. Having volunteered for...
- Author:Enguehard, FrancoiseSummary:
In 1913 Dr. Louis Thomas and his family settle on the French islands of St. Pierre and Michelon. Enchanted by how this French land navigates the harsh climate of the Atlantic Ocean, he immerses himself in his passion for photography and...
- Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:
Forget fairies and forget vampires! Let yourself be drawn into the dark world of the shape-shifters, ogresses, trolls, and demons of the Canadian Arctic. This collection of field notes meticulously documents the dark side of Inuit...
- Author:Ashton, Michael C., Lee, KibeomSummary:
The "Big Five" personality dimensions widely recognized by Western psychologists: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience. Through their own research, Lee and Ashton discovered a...
- Author:Schmucler, SergioSummary:
Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscowin this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking...