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Watermelon Syrup

By: Abbie Jacobsen

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 0130351

ISBN: 1554580056

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 brot...
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Three Hills Home

By: Alfred Silver

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Nimbus Books: 2001

Seller ID: 0053907

ISBN: 1551094010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Eulalie's life seems laid out ahead of her, as does Corporal Cully Robin's, but an alternate plot is about to change their lives irrevocably. With the looming war between France and England, the Governor of Nova Scotia removes the Acadian people from the land they've lived on for generations and disperses them throughout the colonies to the south. Suddenly, even the simplest expectations are thrown into doubt as they struggle to survive, love and find their way home in the face of obstacles they could never have imagined.
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Runaway

By: Alice Munro

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2004

Seller ID: 0038866

ISBN: 0143050710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

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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Runaway

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 2004

Seller ID: 0015249

ISBN: 077106506X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Love Of A Good Woman

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: M&S: 1998

Seller ID: 0047584

ISBN: 0771066856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Too Much Happiness

By: Alice Munro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin Canada: 2009

Seller ID: 0087750

ISBN: 0143170996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage

By: Alice Munro

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin Canada: 2001

Seller ID: 0036284

ISBN: 0143012312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

In this superb new collection from one of our best and best-loved writers, nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territorya place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can trace the arc of an entire life.

The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a "frizz of reddish hair,"just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girlOs practical joke. A college student, visiting her aunt for the first time, stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her ow...
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Open Secrets

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1995

Seller ID: 0108481

ISBN: 0140247300

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

By: Alice Munro

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NAL: 1975

Seller ID: 0125013

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage

By: Alice Munro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2001

Seller ID: 0129610

ISBN: 0143054546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In this superb collection from one of our finest writers, nine stories draw us immediately into that special place known as Alice Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can trace the arc of an entire life. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage provides the deep pleasures and rewards that Alice Munro's large and ever-growing audience has come to expect.
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The View From Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Douglas Gibson: 2006

Seller ID: 0066267

ISBN: 0771065264

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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The View From Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penquin: 2010

Seller ID: 0141083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Friend Of My Youth

By: Alice Munro

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penquin: 2007

Seller ID: 0141084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Runaway

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Penquin: 2004

Seller ID: 0141085

ISBN: 0143177397

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

My Best Stories

By: Alice Munro

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2006

Seller ID: 0112205

ISBN: 0143170392

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 jumpin...
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Effigy

By: Alissa York

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage: 2007

Seller ID: 0116461

ISBN: 0679314733

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...
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No Great Mischief

By: Alistair MacLeod

Price: $9.00

Publisher: M&S: 2001

Seller ID: 0033017

ISBN: 0771055706

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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Island: The Collected Short Stories Of Alistair Macleod

By: Alistair Macleod

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Emblem: 2001

Seller ID: 0066005

ISBN: 0771055714

Binding: Trade Paperback

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, paren...
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