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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
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Wallace Earle Stegner
In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood.
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What the Spirit Is Saying to the Churches
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Henry T Blackaby
One of the strongest prophetic voices to the church today helps Christians grasp God's pattern for strengthening their churches, rather than relying on human ideas and methods that leave God on the periphery. Readers can learn how to be sensitive individually and corporately to the effort of the Spirit, exploring the trustworthy principles by ...
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The lonely land
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Sigurd F. Olson
"There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the Canadian Northwest it can still be done". With these words Sigurd Olson begins The Lonely Land, the breathtaking account of a five-hundred ...
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Deadfall
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Robert Liparulo
When Hutch discovers the secret of industrialist Brendan Page's success, Page decides to teach him a lesson. But the operation goes terribly wrong, and Hutch's son is kidnapped. A lone man stands little chance against the best black op soldiers ever issued M-16s.
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Who Has Seen the Wind
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W. O. Mitchell
When W.O. Mitchell died in 1998 he was described as "Canada's best-loved writer." Every commentator agreed that his best - and his best-loved - book was "Who Has Seen the Wind." Since it was first published in 1947, this book has sold almost a million copies in Canada. As we enter the world of four-year-old Brian O'Connal, his father the druggist ...
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North to Cree Lake
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A. L. Karras
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The Saskatchewan
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Marjorie Wilkins Campbell
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A student of weather
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Elizabeth Hay
In the 1930s, Lucinda Hardy and her younger sister Norma Joyce--as different as it's possible for two sisters to be--both become obsessed with a young man named Maurice Dove, who turns up one day on their Canadian farm. During the course of 40 years, Maurice defines the existence of the two women as the novel moves from Saskatchewan to New York ...
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Ghost stories of Saskatchewan
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Jo-Anne Christensen
Saskatchewan's spirits haunt its weathered prairie farm homes and nondescript suburban bungalows, its overgrown cemeteries and tidy small-town churches, its hospitals and museums, and its very landscape.
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Frommer's Banff & Jasper National Parks
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Christie Pashby
"Frommer's" puts the parks in your pocket. All the up-to-date practical information and candid insider advice you need to have the perfect park vacation is available in an easy-to-carry size - and at an unbeatable price! This is your complete guide to Banff & Jasper National Parks. It offers the best strategies for seeing these majestic parks, ...
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Shell Lake massacre
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Peter Tadman
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Because a Fire Was in My Head
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Lynn Stegner
Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real - but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate (or Katherine, or Kate of the Prairie, or Katrina) is about to ...
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As for me and my house
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Sinclair Ross
""It's an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind."" The town is Horizon, the setting of Sinclair Ross' ...
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The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson: A True Story of Love and Murder
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Lois Simmie
Obsession, murder and retribution in the early west.
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Lady Rancher
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Gertrude M Roger
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The Crazy Man
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Pamela Porter
It is 1965, and 12-year-old Emaline, living on a wheat farm, must deal with a family that is falling apart. When her dog, Prince, chases a hare into the path of the tractor, she chases after him, and her father accidentally runs over her leg, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. Even worse, from Emaline's point of view ...
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Northern plainsmen; adaptive strategy and agrarian life
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John William Bennett
A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal people; cultural ecology, in that it shows the nature of the adaptations of ...
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The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature
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Sharon Butala
Canadian novelist Sharon Butala recounts how she left a promising academic career to live as a rancher's wife in an isolated part of southwestern Saskatchewan. Her reminiscences on her inner life are interwoven with notes on her physical surroundings.
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Prairie Kaddish
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Isa Milman
Isa Milman uses historical and personal awakening, and archival sleuthing, to create a "kaddish" - a Jewish prayer of mourning and commemoration - for a prairie community that now exists only through remembrance. Prairie Kaddish begins with the author's serendipitous discovery of the Jewish graveyard at Lipton, Saskatchewan, a community whose ...
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Loyal Till Death-Indians/NW Rebell
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Blair Stonechild
"Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction" This startling retelling of the North-West Rebellion explodes the myth of a grand Indian-MA(c)tis alliance and delves into the reasons why Indians have been branded as traitors and rebels in both the public imagination and official records. After the rebellion, twenty-eight reserves ...
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Silton seasons; from the diary of a countryman.
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R. D. Symons
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Deny, Deny, Deny: The Rise and Fall of Colin
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Garrett Wilson
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Wheat and Woman
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Georgina Binnie-Clark
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Second-Best Bride: Book 5
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Ruth Glover
Meg couldn't compete with her sister. She'd quit trying a long time ago. So she was only vaguely disappointed when handsome homesteader Royce Ferguson transferred his affections to her beautiful and flirtatious sister. When Royce left town for the Wildrose Territory on the Canadian frontier with marriage on his mind, Meg wondered if Marlys would ...
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The Garden of Eden
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Sharon Butala
THE GARDEN OF EDEN tells the story of two women, Iris, a farm woman whose life is shattered by the premature death of her husband, and Iris's niece, Lannie, who is working alongside an aid organisation in the drought-ravaged deserts of Ethiopia. It is to Lannie that Iris turns for answers to the unresolved questions her husband's death has raised. ...
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