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By: Abbie Jacobsen
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 2007
Seller ID: 0130351
ISBN: 1554580056
Condition: Very good
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 th... View more info
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1994
Seller ID: 0012119
ISBN: 0771066996
Condition: Very good
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By: Alice Munro
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Penguin: 2004
Seller ID: 0038866
ISBN: 0143050710
Condition: Fair
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: M&S: 1998
Seller ID: 0047584
ISBN: 0771066856
Condition: Very good
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By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 2004
Seller ID: 0015249
ISBN: 077106506X
Condition: Good
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By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Douglas Gibson: 2006
Seller ID: 0066267
ISBN: 0771065264
Condition: Very good
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By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Penguin: 1999
Seller ID: 0078215
ISBN: 0140281940
Condition: Good
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Knopf: 2014
Seller ID: 0121426
ISBN: 1101874104
Condition: Good
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By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: NAL: 1975
Seller ID: 0125013
Condition: Good
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Penguin: 2001
Seller ID: 0129610
ISBN: 0143054546
Condition: Good
By: Alice Munro
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Penguin Canada: 2001
Seller ID: 0036284
ISBN: 0143012312
Condition: Very good
By: Alice Munro
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Penquin: 2010
Seller ID: 0141083
Condition: Very good
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Penquin: 2007
Seller ID: 0141084
Condition: Good
By: Alice Munro
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Publisher: Penquin: 2004
Seller ID: 0141085
ISBN: 0143177397
Condition: Very good
By: Alissa York
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Vintage: 2007
Seller ID: 0116461
ISBN: 0679314733
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... View more info
By: Alistair Macleod
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Emblem: 2001
Seller ID: 0066005
ISBN: 0771055714
Condition: Good
Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story. Now MacLeod's collected stories, including two never before published, are gathered together for the first time in "Island." These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surrounds them. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and... View more info
By: Alistair MacLeod
Price: $9.00
Publisher: M&S: 2001
Seller ID: 0033017
ISBN: 0771055706
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.... View more info
By: Allan Hudson
Price: $24.95
Publisher: South Branch Scribbler: 2017
Seller ID: 0132024N
ISBN: 1988291011
Condition: New Book
By: Allison Watson
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Self Published: 2013
Seller ID: 0108791
ISBN: 0992168805
Condition: Very good
By: Ami McKay
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Vintage: 2007
Seller ID: 0059943
ISBN: 0676977731
Condition: Very good
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.'s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and... View more info
