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1	Fade more books like this by Robert Cormier add to wishlist In the year 1938, 13-year-old Paul Moreaux discovers that he has inherited the family trait of being able to fade and become invisible. The fade power is mysteriously inherited by one boy in each generation of the Moreaux family, and Paul is both pleased and frightened as he explores the possibilities of his power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Marie Blythe more books like this by Howard Frank Mosher add to wishlist Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England, one who has "created a literary landscape as textured as anything produced by the U. S. Geological Survey," according to USA Today. His "greatest gift," says the Washington Post, is "his talent for creating lively, living characters." One of his most vivid and memorable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The hockey sweater and other stories more books like this by Roch Carrier add to wishlist The title story, about the Quebec boy who is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake, has become a Christmas favorite. Also included are nineteen other tales of a childhood in a Quebec village. The Hockey Sweater is now an award-winning National Film Board film. This is Roch Carrier at his best! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade more books like this by Carolyn Podruchny add to wishlist French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for European civilization in the wild Northwest. Carolyn ... see all copies from $19.89! new only from $22.25! \| SVS
5	White Niggers of America more books like this by Pierre Vallieres add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
6	The road past Altamont more books like this by Gabrielle Roy add to wishlist " A consummate artist...Miss Roy communicates masterfully, with a beauty which is quite indescribable." - "Toronto Star". "[This] book is quite outside the trend of modern fiction...Yet, with a craft so adroit that it seems like instinct itself, it lights up many thoroughfares of the human heart...Miss Roy takes the very pulse of wonder, love, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions
7	In the village of Viger more books like this by Duncan Campbell Scott add to wishlist The ten stories in In the Village of Viger portray the life of a rural village as it faces the darkness of its own future. An established milliner, Madame Laroque, is upset by the advent of a younger, more popular rival. An innkeeper's obsession with the Franco-Prussian War drives his descent into madness. A gardener longs to return to the village ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $12.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Sugaring-Off Party more books like this by Jonathan London add to wishlist A French-Canadian grandmother reminisces about her first sugaring-off party, complete with music, dancing and lots of food. The primitive-style pictures are lush and colorful. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.42! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Talking Cat and Other Stories of French Canada more books like this by Natalie Savage Carlson, Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator) add to wishlist Seven tales that helped comprise the evenings' entertainment for French Canadians before radio and television. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
10	The French-Canadian Heritage in New England more books like this by Gerard J Brault add to wishlist A comprehensive historical, sociological, and cultural introduction to the sizable Franco-American population in New England. see all copies from $8.80! new only from $25.71! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Canada's Francophone Minority Communities: Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance more books like this by Michael D Behiels add to wishlist By the late 1950s Canada's Francophone and Acadian minority communities were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed at an unprecedented rate. To survive, these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.52!
12	Jean-Claude's island. more books like this by Natalie Savage Carlson, Nancy Ekholm Burkert add to wishlist Whenever Jean-Claude's ideas bring him scoldings he runs across the way to his grandparents' house, but one summer, when they leave Canada for a visit to France and Jean-Claude's father buys a new tractor, the youngster's problems involve his whole family. see all copies from $2.00! first editions
13	Of Kings and Fools more books like this by Michael Parent, Julien Olivier add to wishlist This volume gathers traditional French-American stories featuring other worlds, brash heroes, scoundrels, princesses, and tall tales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	French America: Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent more books like this by Dean R Louder (Editor), Eric Waddell (Editor), Franklin Philip (Translator) add to wishlist This collection of essays represents the most comprehensive study to date of the concentrated populations of French origin that dot the North American continent from Quebec to Louisiana, from Newfoundland to British Columbia. The authors - geographers, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists - view the populations, which are today French ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The Worker in Sandalwood more books like this by Marjorie Pickthall, Frances Tyrrell (Illustrator) add to wishlist Here is a classic story from Canadian literature about a poor young apprentice who has been given the task of completing an intricate cabinet by his cruel master. If the piece is not finished by Christmas morning, the boy will surely be beaten. The young boy's hands grow too cold and too tired to hold the tools. Just in time a mysterious carpenter ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.94! \| first editions
16	Knife on the table more books like this by Jacques Godbout add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17	White niggers of America; the precocious autobiography of a Quebec "terrorist". more books like this by Pierre Vallières add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
18	Circle of Light more books like this by Elaine Corbell Roe, Eliane Corbeil Roe add to wishlist When Lucy, a French-Canadian girl, allows herself to be talked into representing her school's eighth grade in a scholarship competition, she is surprised by the changes in others' attitudes toward her as well as by her own inner strengths. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans more books like this by Mason Wade add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions \| SVS
20	St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish more books like this by Horace Miner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.78! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories more books like this by Richard Teleky (Editor), Marie-Claire Blais (Designer) add to wishlist The first major historical collection of French-Canadian short stories in translation, spanning a century and a half, this anthology offers twenty-two stories that will entertain, charm, and often disturb. At the same time they reveal the development of the French-Canadian short-story form, and present many of the leading writers of French Canada. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $81.60!
22	The magic fiddler, and other legends of French Canada more books like this by Claude Aubry, Saul Field add to wishlist see all copies from $10.50! signed copies \| first editions
23	Yesterday the Children Were Dancing more books like this by Gratien Gelinas add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
24	Plouffe Family more books like this by Roger Lemelin add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	French Canadians in Michigan more books like this by John Dulong add to wishlist As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. Because of its importance in the fur trade, many French Canadians migrated to Michigan, settling primarily along the Detroit-Illinois trade route, and throughout the fur trade avenues of ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $20.52! \| first editions

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