A deadly secret that won’t stay buried… It is the fall of 1896, and Miss Concordia Wells is hip-deep in the usual tumult of a lady professor’s life: classes, clubs, student pranks and the unending drama generated by the girls she lives...
Nineteenth century
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Author:Owen, K. B.Summary: -
Author:Kinsella W.P.Summary:Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both," The Winter Helen Dropped By is a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of...
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Author:Nellis, Eric GuestSummary:Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-...
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Author:Jakober, MarieSummary:An Englishman in the Canadian colonies is recruited to spy on the American rebels living there in hopes of inciting a war between Great Britain and the North.
- Author:Fletcher, Edward TaylorSummary:
Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher's writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has gathered...
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Author:Lawrence, KatherineSummary:In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern and darkly funny. The voice in these exquisite poems is a 19th century woman who straddles both old and new...
- Author:Deschênes, DanielSummary:
De façon étrange, Lily-Rose, une jeune femme de dix-sept ans, se retrouve propulsée à Londres à l’époque du XIXe siècle, un saut dans le passé d’environ cent cinquante ans. Là-bas, elle rencontre un vieux marchand de rubans qui lui...
- Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:
Élevée par sa tante et son oncle dans le presbytère du petit village anglais de Grimston Way, la ravissante Evy Varley a bien peu de souvenirs de ses parents et a pratiquement tout oublié de sa vie en Afrique du Sud, le pays où elle est...
- Author:Berton, PierreSummary:
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just...
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Author:Bob Van LaerhovenSummary:Paris, 1870. La guerre sévit entre la France et la Prusse et la ville assiégée est bombardée quotidiennement, condamnant la population à la faim et au froid. Partout la mort rôde. Dans les bas-fonds de Paris ou encore dans les...
- Author:Morris, GilbertSummary:
Dans les années 1850, Julienne Ashby se voit contrainte de changer ses manières d’aristocrate après la mort de son père, un homme d’affaires prospère de Natchez, qui, à force de négligences financières, a laissé sa famille sans fortune...
- Author:Gardner, SallySummary:
From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch perfect, haunting story about a crystal chandelier shaped like a...
- Author:Neil, DanialSummary:
In 1880 the Government of Canada commenced construction of a national railroad that was promised to British Columbia as a condition of entering Confederation in 1871. The section of the railroad through the Fraser Canyon at Yale would...
- Author:Charland, Marie-ClaudeSummary:
Alors qu’elle fait ses débuts comme demoiselle de compagnie de Norah Fedmore, Lauriane tente de reprendre une vie normale suite aux événements qui ont bouleversé son existence. Mais il y a encore de l’orage dans l’air… Un malheureux...
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Author:White, Nicolas J.Summary:This updated Seminar Studies volume provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British empire has, of course, been one of the central features of postwar international history. At the end of the...
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Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:An exotic drama in which one man’s mysterious disappearance brings a dark end to three other people. What would it take to destroy an Irish girl who had survived famine and war in Ireland, and a hazardous journey across the Atlantic...
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Author:Young, Ida LinehanSummary:In the late nineteenth century, after disease and circumstance have left her alone in the world, Mary Rourke believes she is predestined to spinsterhood in her small community in Newfoundland. When a series of dramatic events brings a...
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Author:Brose, Eric DornSummary:Known as the "Great War," World War One was one of history's greatest tragedies. It eventually dragged most of Europe and the world into its bloody quagmire, inflicting more than four years of suffering, misery, maiming, and death on...
