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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice Munro's superb new collection contains stories about women of all ages and circumstances, from a young woman who wants to leave her husband and a country girl who takes a job at a resort hotel to a woman who can foresee the future and its consequences.
4) Haunted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett and his family are about to be haunted by a father's worst nightmare--the signs he should have seen and a son's desperate cry for help. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. An idyllic country town in the Maine woods is haunted by an epidemic emptying its streets and preying on its youth. Turns out the vacation brochures don't tell the full story-the...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Tackling a variety of themes, such as love, loss, and redemption, author Alice Munro delivers a masterfully crafted collection of short stories. In the title story, Too Much Love, Sonia Kovalevsky, a Russian bohemian, embarks on a winter-long journey across Europe with her love, discovering that love and monogamy are exactly the perfect match.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1969
Physical Desc
[52] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.[How Paddle-to-the-Sea came to be -- Paddle starts on his journey -- Paddle meets a sawmill -- The largest lake in the world -- Life in a northern marsh -- Adrift again -- The shipwreck -- Down Lake Michigan -- Paddle returns to the north -- Forest fire -- Paddle reaches Lake Erie -- Paddle takes a great fall...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
""When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became the regiment's much-loved mascot. But who could care...
8) Anthem
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Gardener, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher—a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he
...10) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
Author
Series
Emily Starr trilogy volume 1
Virago modern classics volume 591
Emily books volume 1
New Canadian library
Virago modern classics volume 591
Emily books volume 1
New Canadian library
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Emily discovers she has a Cousin Jimmy and Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farm as well as other family and friends.
14) Good to a fault
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's heartbreak, there's joy, there are parts where you cry-and it's very high quality writing. Well done!"
- Margaret Atwood
"Unpretentious and affecting, with characters to remember and themes that linger and resound."
- Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap
Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between sacrifice and...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir details the haunting and redemptive events of the author's life, covering such topics as his con-man father's betrayal, the murder-suicide of a houseguest, and his decade spent in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 633 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a thriller, a mystery, and a love story. By blending comic events about misfits, outcasts and a serial killer all on a collision course. The story envelopes Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own.. who periodically returns to India. Once, 20 years ago, he examined...
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