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Shipping News
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E Annie Proulx
In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, on the coast of Newfoundland, where he gets a job with the local newspaper covering the shipping news. Gradually, ...
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Anne of Green Gables
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is the classic and immensely popular first novel in the series about Anne Shirley, an irrepressible red-headed orphan. The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan--a strong, hardworking boy to help with the farm chores. Anne is sent to live with them by mistake. Talkative, romantic and imaginative, Anne must convince the Cuthberts to keep her. ...
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Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
A collection of 16 stories featuring the characters and settings of the "Anne of Green Gables" series.
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The Best American Short Stories
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Stephen King (Selected by), Heidi Pitlor (Selected by)
Pop-culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, which includes such contributors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, and Mary Gordon.
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Mrs. Mike, the story of Katherine Mary Flannigan
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Benedict. [from old catalog] Freedman, Nancy Mars Freedman, [from old catalog]
Mrs. Mike is the love story of Katherine Mary O'Fallon, a young Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police, who is a priest, doctor and magistrate to all in the great Canadian wilderness area under his supervision. Recommended by Library Journal.
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Anne of Avonlea
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables", Anne is now a 16-year-old teaching in the town of Avonlea.
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Barney's Version
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Mordecai Richler
Barney Panofsky's Canadian TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune but left him feeling idle and dishonest. Thrice-married (with increasing dissatisfaction) and pushing 70, Barney looks back with regret and sarcasm on his life, his friends, and his country. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Stone Angel
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Margaret Laurence
Hagar Shipley, of Manawaka, Canada, is 90 years old. Blind, proud, desperately unhappy, she has spent her life denying her emotions and struggling to be wholly independent of people. As she nears the end of her life, the cracks in her self-sufficient facade are widening; the novel chronicles Hagar's life and the developments that lead to her ...
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Stanley Park
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Timothy Taylor, pro
Jeremy Papier finances his trendy Vancouver restaurant by maxing out his credit cards, and his life doesn't get any less stressful when his eccentric father joins the homeless and gets Jeremy involved in the solving of a 30-year-old murder case.
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Alluring Tales: Awaken the Fantasy
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Vivi Anna, Delilah Devlin, Cathryn Fox
What is your most wicked fantasy? Pleasure beckons and satisfaction is guaranteed in seven titillating stories of love that know no boundaries. Surrender to the passion and follow your desires into unexplored realms of sensuous delights. Awaken the fantasy! A man harbors impure thoughts about a voluptuous stripper--and sets out to make his ...
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No Great Mischief
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Alistair MacLeod
This lyrical novel is narrated by Alexander MacDonald, an orthodontist in Canada, who recalls his family history, beginning with their emigration from Scotland in the 17th century and ending with Alexander's sometimes tortured relationships with his coal-mining brothers in modern-day Toronto. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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Ballads of a Cheechako
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Robert W Service
BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO ROBERT W. SERVICE - To the Man of the High North MY rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Ive drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the bells of Elfland chiming, Seeing the groves of Arcadie agleam. I was the thrall of Beauty that rejoices From peak snow-diademed to regal star Yet to mine aerie ever ...
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Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is the classic and immensely popular first novel in the series about Anne Shirley, an irrepressible red-headed orphan. The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan--a strong, hardworking boy to help with the farm chores. Anne is sent to live with them by mistake. Talkative, romantic and imaginative, Anne must convince the Cuthberts to keep her. ...
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Moonlight & Vines
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Charles de Lint
A collection of 22 short stories by de Lint, set in his fictional city of Newford.
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Maltese Goddess
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Lyn Hamilton
Lara flies to Malta to personally furnish the home of Toronto's Martin Galea, whose reputation as an architect is rivaled only by his reputation as a womanizer. But when he turns up dead, Lara soon finds out that her client and his new home share a troubled past--a past that stretches back to the ancient world, and reaches out with the insidious ...
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Alluring Tales: Hot Holiday Nights
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Vivi Anna, Sylvia Day, Delilah Devlin
The holidays are heating up--with seven wickedly sensual stories guaranteed to spice up those chilly winter nights! A psychology student goes online hoping to live out her steamiest fantasy--and ends up on a hot mystery date with a wickedly imaginative stud who brings out her inner pole-dancer. . . A determined lady comes home, burning for her ...
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Mrs. Mike
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Nancy Freedman
In this perennially appreciated romantic saga, a police officer named Sergeant Mike Flannigan and a pretty young woman named Katherine Mary O'Fallon fall in love in the Canadian wilderness.
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Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops
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John Kulka (Editor), Sherman Alexie (Editor), Natalie Danford (Editor)
This is a collection of short fiction stories taken from over 100 workshops around America.
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Shadows on the Rock
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Willa Cather
This novel about a poor apothecary, Euclide Auclair, and his daughter Cécile, who come to Quebec from France in the 17th century after the death of Euclide's wife. Homesick and shattered, Euclide gradually becomes involved in the life of the place, though his longing for his old life doesn't leave him. When, eventually, Cécile falls in love and is ...
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3 X 33: Short Fiction by 33 Writers
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Mark Winegardner (Editor)
Offering 3 stories by 33 authors, "3 X 33" combines both a breadth and depth not seen in other contemporary or modern short fiction anthologies.
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Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
A collection of 16 short stories about life on Prince Edward Island. Selections include "The Magical Bond of the Sea", "Fair Exchange and No Robbery", "A Soul That Was Not at Home", and "The Working of Helen".
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Chorus of Mushrooms
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Hiromi Goto
This book heralds the debut of a young Japanese Canadian feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until the publication of 'Chorus of Mushrooms' in 1994, the primary voice heard from Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II. Hiromi Goto examines the immigration experience of the Japanese Canadian beyond war and into present day Alberta ...
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Statement
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Brian Moore
A thriller à la Graham Greene and John le Carré, in which Pierre Brossard, a former French collaborator with the Nazis, has spent 40 years escaping both Jewish groups and the French government.
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It's me again
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Donald Lamont Jack
It's 1918, and Bandy has survived the trenches and the war in the air, but now that he has his own squadron to command there are even worse things in store for him. His adjutant. A parachute test. A Paris dentist. The wrath of Brigadier Soames. Halifax hospitality... And when a new German biplane comes along that can out-perform even the Dolphin, ...
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Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction
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Carol Fairbanks
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