Village of the Small Houses: A Memoir of Sorts
 A memorable case of growing up among lovable misfits: Written and narrated by author Ian Ferguson, Village Of The Small Houses: A Memoir Of Sorts is an hilarious and highly recommended account of growing up poor in the far north when in 1959, just ahead [... more]
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Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada's Best New ...
Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 810 EAN: 9780864923882 Edition: 2 hr/2 CD Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0864923880 Number Of Pages: 1 Publication Date: 2004-04-16 [... more]
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The Stone Carvers
Amazon.com Review: In her fifth novel, award-winning writer Jane Urquhart interweaves the sweeping power of big historical events with small but very moving personal stories. Klara Becker is the granddaughter of a woodcarver in German-settled southern [... more]
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Obasan (Between the Covers Classics)
Revealing and Stirring!!: I discovered Obasan by accident, and bought the book out of curiosity. I am of Japanese heritage on my mother's side, and having "Obasan" of my own, was drawn by the title and content. It took me a while to get to it, [... more]
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Leaven of Malice (Between the Covers Classics)
The perfect humorous novel.: A Mixture of Frailties tells two complete but entwined stories: one of Sully and his young wife who are burdened by the 'dead hand' of Sully's mother (they must produce a male heir or forfeit a fortune to 'little Miss Nobody, [... more]
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The Handmaid's Tale
I can't praise it enough: This was a very unique and interesting story. It's a dark theme with some very dark moments, but it also opens one's eyes. It definitely has a feminist philosophy slant- but I like that. The book left me wanting to know more- I [... more]
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Amazon.com Review: In 1949, Joseph Smallwood became the first premier of the newly federated Canadian province of Newfoundland. Predictably, and almost immediately, his name retreated to the footnotes of history. And yet, as Wayne Johnston makes plain in [... more]
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An Evening with W.O. Mitchell
A Canadian Treasure: W.O. Mitchell has been a huge figure in Canadian writing for a number of years. His books are routinely assigned in schools from grade school to university. He evokes the Canadian Praries so as to make that the cultural homeland of [... more]
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And No Birds Sang (Between the Covers Classics)
An Anti-War War Read: This book was a great surprise for me. I picked it up at a local library because I saw the name Mowat and thought, "Funny, Isn't he a Canadian naturalist? What's he doing in the History section?" What followed was a [... more]
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Stanley Park
Amazon.com Review: In Timothy Taylor's debut novel Stanley Park, aspiring food artiste Jeremy Papier attempts to juggle the finances of his fledgling eatery, The Monkey's Paw, and his conflicted feelings about his attractive sous-chef. Meanwhile, on the [... more]
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The Blind Assassin
Amazon.com Review: The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret [... more]
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An International Christmas: Seasonal Stories and Poems ...
Author: Milton Acorn Author: Heinrich Boll Author: Annie Dillard Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780864923431 Edition: 2 hr 30 min/2 CD Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0864923430 Number Of Items: 2 Number Of Pages: 1 Publication Date: 2004-09-27 [... more]
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