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1	Stone diaries more books like this by Carol Shields Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Unless more books like this by C Shields Reta Winters is a successful novelist, Tom is a doctor, and they've been living together for over 20 years. Life has been good until Reta's daughter Norah leaves home and becomes a street person in Toronto. Carol Shields's novel--which she claims will be her last (she was suffering from terminal cancer when she wrote it)--is about not only family ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp more books like this by Carol Diggory Shields In this dinosaur picture book, the author reveals what the dinosaurs did when they wanted to let off some steam - they rocked and rolled, twirled and tromped, at the biggest, loudest, wildest party ever. Join Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Duckbill and Tyrannosaurus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Larry's Party more books like this by Carol Shields The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze. Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with mazes may help him find a way through the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Swann more books like this by Carol Shields Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a bag full of poems to newspaper editor hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who lived such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Republic of Love more books like this by C Shields 'The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy...a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.' Times Literary Supplement 'The Republic of Love is a hymn to the pleasures and pains, the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Collected Stories more books like this by Carol Shields With a new Introduction by Margaret Atwood, this essential anthology represents the entire writing career of Carol Shields, from 1985 until her untimely death in 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Food Fight! more books like this by Carol Diggory Shields, Doreen Gay-Kassel (Illustrator), Carol Diggory Shields Late at night, the food in the fridge comes alive and has party--that soon turns into a food fight! see all copies from $2.85! new only from $3.19! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Small Ceremonies more books like this by Carol Shields Judith Gill is a biographer who spends her days trying to understand other people's lives instead of her own. Her children confuse her, she feels alienated from her husband. She is an observer--but eventually what she observes is the importance of the small ceremonies of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Celibate Season more books like this by Carol Shields, Blanche Howard In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. A CELIBATE SEASON is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, (Jock and Chas) and their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Lunch Money and Other Poems about School more books like this by Carol Diggory Shields, Paul Meisel (Illustrator) Color illustrations accompany these 23 poems about school life. Topics include recess games, the activities of the class clown, and homework. see all copies from $2.25! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Box Garden more books like this by C Shields Charleen Forest is a poet, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a single parent bringing up a teenage son. She describes her limbo-like existence with wry humour. Then, suddenly, events start running wildly out of hand, beginning with her 70-year-old mother's decision to get married again. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Bugliest Bug more books like this by Carol Diggory Shields, Scott Nash (Illustrator) In this rousing read aloud from the creators of "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp," all of insect land is abuzz with news of a big contest. The demure Damselfly Dilly has no thoughts of winning, but she's curious to see who will. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Dressing Up for the Carnival more books like this by Carol Shields A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife' s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told more books like this by Carol Shields (Editor), Marjorie Anderson (Editor) “There are exciting and truly intimate entries in this book…these women take ideas even secret ones, and infuse them with poetry, scoured and buffed sentences and …stopwatch comic timing…The true depth of the collection is found in these women’s clear memories and their willingness to share.” -- Quill & ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	Happenstance more books like this by Shields These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Happenstance: Two Novels in One about a Marriage in Transition more books like this by C Shields Contains two novels, each about the events of one weekend - one from the wife's point of view, one from the husband's. Brenda and Jack have rarely been apart. But when Brenda goes to a crafts convention for a week, Jack is left alone to cope while Brenda comes to realize her own creativity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Various Miracles more books like this by Carol Shields A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries" which was a runner up for the 1993 Booker Prize. In these stories Carol Shields illuminates the moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances - wild coincidences, declarations of love, startling revelations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	I am really a princess more books like this by Carol Diggory Shields Readers can come along to the castle and see what life is like for a princess. There are no mundane rule s and regulations to bother over, you can have your own room , friends can sleep over any day of the week, and the royal chef awaits your command. ' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Various Miracles: 6stories more books like this by Carol Shields By Pulitzer Prizewinner Carol Shields, these stories are about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate more books like this by C Shields A boy describes the fun he has while visiting his grandfather. Illustrated with watercolor paintings. see all copies from $2.91! new only from $19.49!
22 view cover	Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren't Told more books like this by Carol Shields (Editor), Marjorie Anderson (Editor), Catherine Shields The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the "women's network" still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or felt they couldn't talk about ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Jane Austen: A Life more books like this by Carol Shields Carol Shields's biography of Jane Austen emphasizes what is known about the private woman as well as the great novelist. see all copies from $3.31! new only from $8.08! \| SVS
24 view cover	Orange Fish more books like this by Carol Shields Twelve short stories by Pulitzer Prizewinner Carol Shields. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 more books like this by John Kulka (Editor), Carol Shields (Editor), Natalie Danford (Editor) This collection of stories gathered from 100 different creative writing workshops, covers such subjects as mid-life career changes, extraterrestrials and marital fidelity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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