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1	Kiss of the Fur Queen more books like this by Tomson Highway "The Gunpowder Plot" recreates the terrorist conspiracy annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day. Antonia Fraser has researched the plot by Roman Catholic extremists to topple the government of James I of England, and she outlines the parallels between the religious extremists of the Jacobean era and the fanatics of the 20th century. Dorris Lessing ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Agassiz: A Novel in Stories more books like this by Sandra Birdsell, R. W. Scholes (Illustrator) This volume of short stories was acclaimed by the American Library Association as a Notable Book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	True Confessions of a Heartless Girl more books like this by Martha Brooks When 17-year-old Noreen Stall arrives in the small prairie town of Pembina Lake she forever changes the lives of several of the town's residents including single mother Lynda Bradley, town elder Dolores Harper, and farmer Del Armstrong. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Northern Exposures more books like this by Eric Walters Walters' latest thrilling adventure is packed with fascinating encounters with bears and thrilling rides in the gargantuan all-terrain buggies used to spot Arctic wildlife--and it introduces the issue of environmental commercialization to its young audience with subtlety. see all copies from $4.01! new only from $8.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Boy of Good Breeding more books like this by Miriam Toews From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General's Award Winner comes her delightfully funny and charming second novel about life in Canada's smallest town. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Cage more books like this by Audrey Schulman ALA Notable Book. The story of a nature photographer on an otherwise all-male documentary expedition to the Canadian tundra. From within a small iron cage, this small, often fearful woman is challenging herself to face the planet's largest land carnivores in the bone-aching cold of an unforgiving terrain. Before long, disaster strikes, and she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	All We Know of Heaven more books like this by Remy Rougeau This luminous, revelatory novel by a cloistered monk traces a young man's search for wisdom among the inhabitants of a Cistercian monastery of strict observance. In 1973, Paul Seneschal, a shy nineteen-year-old from rural Manitoba, takes flight from the world behind the wrought iron gates of St. Norbert Abbey. Here he is immersed in an austere, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The road past Altamont more books like this by Gabrielle Roy " 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 $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Red River Story more books like this by Alfred Silver see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	No Man's River more books like this by Farley Mowat With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment. In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of WWII behind him, Mowat joined a scientific expedition. In the remote reaches of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists more books like this by Amy Wallace, "Handsome" Dick Manitoba The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists features over 200 of the funniest, craziest lists - from the Most Offensive Songs to Stupidest Band Names, from Punk Sell-Outs to Fashion Don'ts - culled from historical archives and generated by celebrity guests. Contributors include rock stars and punk luminaries, from members of Guns N' Roses and the Ramones ... see all copies from $9.79! new only from $9.79! \| SVS
12 view cover	In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic more books like this by Howard Norman In this memoir of myth and an uncommon friendship that was sparked while Norman was in Manitoba translating Inuit tales into English, the author writes of his bond with Helen Tanizaki, who became his guide through the stories and customs of the Inuit, and who was fatally ill during their time together. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Haunting of L. more books like this by Howard Norman In 1927, in a tiny Manitoba town, Peter Duvett is working as an assistant to a photographer who specializes in photographing bloody accidents. Peter falls in love with Kala, the photographer's wife and becomes involved in her obsession with photographs in which dead people appear. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Northern Lights more books like this by Howard Norman Howard Norman's first novel tells the story of a boy named Noah and his friend Pelly. Noah has been raised in the remote, one house village of Padua Lake and Pelly lives in the Cree-Indian village of Quill. During the summers, Noah goes to stay with Pelly's family. Howard Norman is the author of two books of translation from North Canadian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography Into History more books like this by Jennifer S. Brown, A. Irving Hallowell see all copies from $6.00! new only from $16.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Maya Running more books like this by Anjali Banerjee Born in India, Maya Mukherje, is growing up in 1970s Canada. When her cousin comes from India for a visit, bringing a statue of the god Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles, Maya asks Ganesh to remove all obstacles to her dreams. Like most wishes, it backfires in hilarious and painful ways. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	The Great Gray Owl: Phantom of the Northern Forest more books like this by Robert Nero, Robert R Taylor (Photographer) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	All of Baba's children more books like this by Myrna Kostash Myrna Kostash's All of Baba's Children is a penetrating and revealing look at the lives of those of Ukrainian ethnic identity in Canada. Although the book is focused on this population, the conclusions she arrives at are of interest to anyone looking into the long term effects of being an ethnic subgroup in a larger culture. The book melds ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Over Prairie Trails more books like this by Frederick Philip Grove Now I have already said that snow is the only really plastic element in which the wind can carve the vagaries of its mood and leave a record of at least some permanency. The surface of the sea is a wonderful book to be read with a lightning-quick eye; I do not know anything better to do as a cure for ragged nerves--provided you are a good sailor. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.71! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Mistik Lake more books like this by Martha Brooks Written in spare, elegant prose and told from multiple points of view, this novel explores the lives of three generations of women in one family, revealing what happens when each woman cannot find the courage to follow her heart--and what can happen when she does. see all copies from $4.25! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
21	Some Great Thing more books like this by Lawrence Hill Disillusioned and apathetic after four years of college, fledgling reporter Mahatma Grafton returns to his hometown to begin work at a local newspaper. When a peaceful demonstration escalates into a full-scale police cover-up, Mahatma discovers the principles that have always eluded him. By the author of Any Known Blood. see all copies from $4.05! new only from $32.76!
22 view cover	The Red River Trails: Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement,1820-1870 more books like this by Rhoda R Gilman, Deborah M Stultz, Carolyn Gilman The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Metis who became ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $27.46! \| first editions
23	Manitoba: A History more books like this by William L Morton see all copies from $3.19! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Winter Road more books like this by Caron Todd see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25 view cover	Purple Springs more books like this by Nellie L McClung If there was any lack of enthusiasm among the parents it had no reflection in the children's minds, for the Chicken Hill School, after the great announcement, simply pulsated with excitement. Country children have capabilities for enjoyment that the city child knows nothing about, and to the boys and girls at Chicken Hill the prospect of a program ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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