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No Great Mischief: A Novel (Vintage International)

No Great Mischief: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief , the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it. Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some... (more)

The Outlander

by Gil Adamson

In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to... (more)

Turtle Valley

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

My memories are so like that hat full of butterflies, some already deteriorating the moment they are collected, some breathed back to life now and again, for a brief moment, by the scent on a passing wind–the smell of an orange, perhaps, or a whiff of brown-sugar fudge–before drifting away, just out of my reach. How much of myself flits away with each of these tattered memories? How much of myself have I already... (more)

Crow Lake: A Novel

by Mary Lawson

Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo Morrison are born in an Ontario farming community of only a few families, so isolated that “the road led only south.” There is little work, marriage choices are few, and the winter cold seeps into the bones of all who dare to live there. In the Morrisons’ hard-working, Presbyterian house, the Eleventh Commandment is “Thou Shalt Not Emote.” But as descendants of a great-grandmother who... (more)

No Great Mischief

by Alistair MacLeod

In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum McDonald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in "the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity and history.

Roughing It in the Bush (A Norton Critical Edition)

Roughing It in the Bush (A Norton Critical Edition)

by Susanna Moodie

In 1832, Susanna Moodie immigrated to Canada from Britain with her husband and daughter in search of comfort and independence in the unsettled Canadian backwoods. She went on to chronicle her experiences in this personal, accurate, and often humorous account. This Norton Critical Edition of Roughing It in the Bush provides everything that a student needs to analyze and enjoy Moodie’s tale. A... (more)

Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir

by Wayne Johnston

In this loving memoir Wayne Johnston returns to Newfoundland-the people, the place, the politics-and illuminates his family's story with all the power and drama he brought to his magnificent novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams . Descendents of the Irish who settled in Ferryland, Lord Baltimore's Catholic colony in Newfoundland, the Johnstons "went from being sea-fearing farmers to sea-faring fishermen." Each... (more)

Elle: A Novel

by Douglas H. Glover

Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian new novel - his first in ten years. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on a true story, Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French... (more)

Alias Grace

by Margaret Atwood

Years have passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Should Dr Simon Jordan, an expert on amnesia, wake the part of Grace's mind which lies dormant?

The Cure for Death by Lightning: A Novel

The Cure for Death by Lightning: A Novel

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When fifteen-year-old Beth Week’s family is attacked by a grizzly, her father becomes increasingly violent, making him a danger to his neighbors, his family, and especially Beth. Meanwhile, several young children from the nearby Indian reservation have gone missing, and Beth fears that something is pursuing her in the bush. But friendship with an Indian girl connects her to a mythology that enriches her... (more)

A Rhinestone Button

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Job Sanstrum sees sound in colour; the hum of the vacuum cleaner creates a soothing glass egg in his hands, the resonant ring of a wet finger run around a wine glass generates hues of merging pastel colours like the shifting gloss of northern lights that grace the sky of his home town Godsfinger, Alberta. This is a community of curious characters, and a town where crop circles occur, birds drop out of the sky, and... (more)

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No Great Mischief: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Alistair MacLeod

The Outlander

by Gil Adamson

Turtle Valley

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Crow Lake: A Novel

by Mary Lawson

No Great Mischief

by Alistair MacLeod

Roughing It in the Bush (A Norton Critical Edition)

by Susanna Moodie

Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir

by Wayne Johnston

Elle: A Novel

by Douglas H. Glover

Alias Grace

by Margaret Atwood

The Cure for Death by Lightning: A Novel

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

A Rhinestone Button

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz