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1	Mercy Among the Children more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist Sydney Henderson has survived a horrific childhood, educated himself, and now lives peacefully in a little shack among neighbors who are suspicious of him. When he marries the beautiful Elly Brown, a resentful neighbor falsely accuses him of murder and child abuse. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lines on the Water: A Fly Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist The award-winning author of "Mercy Among Children" takes readers on an unforgettable journey to the famed Miramichi River, where he casts light on the magical allure of fly-fishing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.86! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Lost Highway more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist From the two-time winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, a suspenseful story of greed, betrayal, murder, and a lottery ticket that may or may not be worth millions. For 20 years, Alex Chapman -- a worn-out academic and failed priest -- has been at war with his great-uncle James, a man known in his small-town community as "The ... see all copies from $6.49! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Friends of Meager Fortune more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist In his major new novel, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-20th century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, as well as a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	River of the Brokenhearted more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist In the 1920s, Janie McLeary and George King run one of the first movie theatres in the Maritimes. The marriage of the young Irish Catholic woman to an older English man is thought scandalous, but they work happily together, playing music to accompany the films. When George succumbs to illness and dies, leaving Janie with one young child and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Nights below Station Street more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist David Adams Richards' Governor General's Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards' acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who live there, including: Joe Walsh, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Bay of Love and Sorrows more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist In a small New Brunswick town, Karrie Smith is happily engaged to a stalwart farmer when she suddenly falls hard for the local bad boy, but unfortunately he's involved with the town slut, who also deals drugs. When a murder occurs, events and partnerships get shaken up until the ending rights many of the wrongs. Years later, the protagonists look ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Face Down in the Park more books like this by Leonard Foglia, David Adams Richards add to wishlist Brent Stevens finds himself lying face down in Central Park trying to figure out the basics--who he is, where he is, and who has tried to kill him--and inadvertently enters a web of secrets and lies that connects him to some of the most powerful names in show business. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Blood ties more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist 'Blood Ties.' For David Richards, this is not merely a figure of speech, it is an assertion of the reality of life in small-town Canada, where blood ties people in countless, almost unknowable ways to friends, community, and landscape. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion a series of events and misunderstandings. As Ivan struggles to reconcile with Cindi, the community ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist Winner of Canada's most prestigious award for literature, David Adams Richardspresents his seventh novel--a suspenseful and moving, dark and redemptive, devastating and comic narrative set in a fictional community along the Miramichi. His characters reveal the damage we are capable of causing through misunderstanding good intentions. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Hope in the Desperate Hour more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist Set in a small town in New Brunswick, this intricate, multi-layered novel revolves around the hapless Shackle family. There is Garth, a promising hockey player whose career has been destroyed; Vicki, his beautiful, self-destructive wife; and Garth's brother Neil, a successful academic haunted by the life and family he has left behind. Then there ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	River of the Broken-Hearted by David Adams Richards add to wishlist Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, "River of the Broken-Hearted" explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, and ... see all copies from $4.70! new only from $4.70!
14 view cover	The coming of winter more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist David Adams Richards finds universal truths in the very particular setting of New Brunswick' s Miramichi Valley. This, his first novel, provides a window upon a world that is as unsettling, as uncontrollable, and as inescapably authentic as a sudden brawl. The frustrations of the community are brought into focus in the plights of 20-year-old ... see all copies from $4.34! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist "As a child I had the idea that trout were golden, or green, in deep pools hidden away under the moss of a riverbank. And that someday I would walk in the right direction, take all the right paths to the river and find them there."In Line on the Water, award-winning author David Adams Richard takes us on an unforgettable journey to the Miramichi ... see all copies from $3.99! signed copies \| first editions
16	Lord Beaverbrook. { Signed and Dated at Launch} by David Adams & Saul Richards, John Ralston. {Ed}. add to wishlist see all copies from $11.94! new only from $22.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	Dancers at night : stories more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Playing the Inside Out more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist see all copies from $4.75! new only from $11.10! \| first editions
19	A Lad from Brantford: And Other Essays more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist see all copies from $17.50! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Lives of Short Duration more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization. What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Americans Are Coming: Reader's Guide Edition more books like this by Herb Curtis, David Adams Richards (Afterword by) add to wishlist An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world's terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for salmon seems like one, and it sets the stage for action. A cast of quirky, unforgettable characters - Nutbeam, a ... see all copies from $22.99! new only from $31.35! \| first editions
22 view cover	Lines on the Water more books like this by David A. J. Richards add to wishlist Lines on the Water is the story of a town, it's river and the community of people who fish it. David Adams Richards is a prize-winning author but when he's not writing, he's mostly fishing and when he's fishing it's always along the banks of the Miramichi river. This great river and the poachers, guides, visiting city suits and friends who share ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.03! \| first editions
23	Road to the stilt house more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! signed copies \| first editions
24	Lives of short duration : a novel more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist see all copies from $33.00! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Hockey Dreams more books like this by David Adams Richards add to wishlist With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul. The lyrical narrative of "Hockey Dreams" flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the globalization of hockey, and how Canadians react ... see all copies from $19.97! first editions

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