Category: Canadian authors

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during...
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The Little Coat

By: Alan J Buick

Price: $8.99

Publisher: DriverWorks : 2009

Seller ID: 0150861

ISBN-13: 9780981039435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Before the Flood

By: Alan R Wilson

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Cormorant : 1999

Seller ID: 0108642

ISBN-13: 9781896951126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Winner of the 1999 Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award. Before the Flood takes place in a time when satellite malls didn't hide the horizon, when the best hockey players were found on six teams, when towns were as individual as people. Forty miles to the south, construction is about to begin on a massive dam which will alter the region forever.
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Alice Munro's Best

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.99

Publisher: M & S : 2006

Seller ID: 0157753

ISBN-13: 9780771065200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Away From Her

By: Alice Munro

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Penguin : 2007

Seller ID: 0077565

ISBN-13: 9780143055389

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Dance Of The Happy Shades

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Vintage : 1998

Seller ID: 0159512

ISBN-13: 9780679781516

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives. Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive li...
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My Best Stories

By: Alice Munro

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin : 2006

Seller ID: 0112205

ISBN-13: 9780143170396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories--seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forwa...
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Runaway

By: Alice Munro

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin : 2004

Seller ID: 0038866

ISBN-13: 9780143050711

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises. In Munro's hands, the people she writes about--women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children--become as vivid as our own neighbours. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

By: Alice Munro

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NAL : 1975

Seller ID: 0125013

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

The Love Of A Good Woman

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.99

Publisher: M&S : 1998

Seller ID: 0047584

ISBN-13: 9780771066856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The View From Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Douglas Gibson : 2006

Seller ID: 0066267

ISBN-13: 9780771065262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The View From Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Penquin : 2010

Seller ID: 0141083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Effigy

By: Alissa York

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage : 2007

Seller ID: 0116461

ISBN-13: 9780679314738

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada's best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah. Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary child, she spends her spare time learning the art of taxidermy, completely fascinated by the act of bringing new and eternal life to the bodies of the dead. At fourteen, her parents marry her off to Erastus Hammer, a polygamous horse breeder and renowned hunter, who does not want to bed...
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No Great Mischief

By: Alistair MacLeod

Price: $10.50

Publisher: M&S : 2001

Seller ID: 0033017

ISBN-13: 9780771055706

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family's mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in "the land of trees," where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past....
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