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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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Finding Forgiveness

By: Adrian McNally Smith

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Acorn Press: 2017

Seller ID: 0140777

ISBN: 1927502810

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

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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Open Secrets

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1994

Seller ID: 0012119

ISBN: 0771066996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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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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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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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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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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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 Love Of A Good Woman

By: Alice Munro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1999

Seller ID: 0078215

ISBN: 0140281940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Too Much Happiness

By: Alice Munro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin Canada: 2009

Seller ID: 0087750

ISBN: 0143170996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Family Furnishings

By: Alice Munro

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Knopf: 2014

Seller ID: 0121426

ISBN: 1101874104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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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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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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Wanderlust

By: Allison Watson

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Self Published: 2013

Seller ID: 0108791

ISBN: 0992168805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

The Devil's Paintbrush

By: Andre Brochu

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Simon and Pierre: 2003

Seller ID: 0115318

ISBN: 1550023969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Like any young man, Etienne longs for independence and dreams about a bright future. But he's a Tourangeau, part of a sprawling Quebec family that, though destitute, thrives as insecurely as weeds in a well-tended garden, nurtured by a mother whose abundant love is more than maternal. Then he meets Odile, a beautiful young woman from a good family who inspires Etienne to transform his future into something worthy of her. But, like Romeo and Juliet, their wild, pure love for each other cannot last. Though Etienne faces his challenges courageously, destiny will force the young lovers apart. View More...

Garageland

By: Andrew Campbell

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Andrew Campbell: 2012

Seller ID: 0093838N

ISBN: 0988062100

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New Book

The Gargoyle

By: Andrew Davidson

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage: 2009

Seller ID: 0077759

ISBN: 0307356787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.

On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him - that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another ...
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Category: Canadian Author