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Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Emblem/McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2014. Trade Paperback. New. New - Unread - May Have Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. - In 1843, A 16-Year-Old Canadian Housemaid Named Grace Marks Was Tried For The Murder Of Her Employer And His Mistress. The Sensationalistic Trial Made Headlines Throughout The World, And The Jury Delivered A Guilty Verdict. Yet Opinion Remained Fiercely Divided About Marks--Was She A Spurned Woman Who Had Taken Out Her Rage On Two Innocent Victims, Or Was She An Unwilling Victim Herself, Caught Up In A Crime She Was Too Young To Understand? Such Doubts Persuaded The Judges To Commute Her Sentence To Life Imprisonment, And Marks Spent The Next 30 Years In An Assortment Of Jails And Asylums, Where She Was Often Exhibited As A Star Attraction. In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood Reconstructs Marks's Story In Fictional Form. Her Portraits Of 19Th-Century Prison And Asylum Life Are… Read More

Seal Books, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. As New - Unread Copy. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - Margaret Atwood Re-Creates A Mysterious And Disturbing Murder And Breathes New Life Into One Of The Most Enigmatic And Notorious Women Of The Nineteenth Century. Grace Marks Has Been Convicted For Her Involvement In The Vicious Murders Of Her Employer, The Wealthy Thomas Kinnear, And His Housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. Years Later, Dr. Simon Jordan - An Up-And-Coming Expert In The Burgeoning Field Of Mental Illness - Listens To Grace's Story, From Her Family's Difficult Passage From Ireland To Canada, To Her Time As A Maid In Thomas Kinnear's Household. As Grace Relives Her Past, Jordan Draws Her Closer To A Dark Maze Of Relationships And Her Lost Memories Of The Day Her Life Was Shattered.

Nan A. Talese, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. New - Unread - 1St Edition - For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. - It's 1843, And Grace Marks Has Been Convicted For Her Involvement In The Vicious Murders Of Her Employer And His Housekeeper And Mistress. Some Believe Grace Is Innocent; Others Think Her Evil Or Insane. Now Serving A Life Sentence, Grace Claims To Have No Memory Of The Murders. An Up-And-Coming Expert In The Burgeoning Field Of Mental Illness Is Engaged By A Group Of Reformers And Spiritualists Who Seek A Pardon For Grace. He Listens To Her Story While Bringing Her Closer And Closer To The Day She Cannot Remember. What Will He Find In Attempting To Unlock Her Memories? Captivating And Disturbing, Alias Grace Showcases Best-Selling, Booker Prize-Winning Author Margaret Atwood At The Peak Of Her Powers.

Emblem Editions, 2017. Trade Paperback. New. New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - It's 1843, And Grace Marks Has Been Convicted For Her Involvement In The Vicious Murders Of Her Employer And His Housekeeper And Mistress. Some Believe Grace Is Innocent; Others Think Her Evil Or Insane. Now Serving A Life Sentence, Grace Claims To Have No Memory Of The Murders. An Up-And-Coming Expert In The Burgeoning Field Of Mental Illness Is Engaged By A Group Of Reformers And Spiritualists Who Seek A Pardon For Grace. He Listens To Her Story While Bringing Her Closer And Closer To The Day She Cannot Remember. What Will He Find In Attempting To Unlock Her Memories? Captivating And Disturbing, Alias Grace Showcases Best-Selling, Booker Prize-Winning Author Margaret Atwood At The Peak Of Her Powers.

Emblem Editions, 2012. Soft cover. New. 25-18-3. New For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Elizabeth Hay's Highly Acclaimed, National Bestseller Now In A Deluxe Paperback Edition. Hay's Runaway Bestseller Novel Crosses Generations And Cuts To The Bone Of Universal Truth About Love And Our Relationship With The Past. In 1930, A School Principal In Saskatchewan Is Suspected Of Abusing A Student. Seven Years Later, On The Other Side Of The Country, A Girl Picking Wild Cherries Meets A Violent End. These Are Only Two Of The Mysteries In The Life Of The Narrator's Charismatic Aunt, Connie Flood. As The Narrator Anne Pieces Together Her Aunt's Lifelong Attachment To Her Former Student Michael Graves, And Her Obsession With Parley Burns, The Inscrutable Principal Implicated In The Assault Of Michael's Younger Sister, Her Own Story Becomes Connected With That Of The Past, And The Triangle Of Principal, Teacher, Student Opens Out Into Other Emotional Triangles --… Read More

St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. The Bestselling, Award-Winning Canadian Novel About A Most Unusual Literary Getaway Heads South To Win New Friends For The Endearing Bachelor Brothers. Hector And Virgil, The Bachelor Brothers, Operate A Bed And Breakfast Establishment Where People Like Them, The "Gentle And Bookish And Ever So Slightly Confused" Can Feel At Home. An Antic Blend Of Homespun And Intellectual Humor, This Book Is A Place Readers Will Want To Return To Again And Again.

Random House of Canada, Limited, 2000. Soft cover. As New. 23-15-4. In Excellent Condition Like New For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos At Eighty-Five, Cory Ditchburn Has Finally Agreed To A Retrospective Of Her Art. For Years She Had Refused, Afraid That Any Summing Up Of Her Life's Work Would Mean She'd Never Work Again. But Now Vanity Has Won Out - Vanity And The Need To See It All One More Time. As She Sorts Through Her Photographs With Tyke, The Son She Abandoned For Her Lover And For World War Ii, Each Image Projects Cory Into One Of The Split-Seconds That Have Strung Themselves Together As Her Life. Her Pictures Give Her Back The Story Of Her Past - From Her Beginnings In Pointe Au Baril, Ontario, A Place Of Rocky Islands And Forests; To Her Days In London, England, Where She Honed Her Skills As A Photographer And Met The Great Love Of Her Life; To War-Ravaged Europe Where She Worked As A War Correspondent For Lord Beaverbrook, Travelling With The Ranks Of… Read More

McClelland & Stewart, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. New Condition. Unread Copy. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. In His First Novel Since The Internationally Acclaimed "The English Patient" - Winner Of The Booker Prize And The Governor General's Award - Michael Ondaatje Gives Us "Anil's Ghost," A Work Displaying All The Richness Of Imagery And Language And The Piercing Emotional Truth We Have Come To Know As The Hallmarks Of His Writing. The Time Is Our Own Time. The Place, Sri Lanka, The Island Nation Off The Southern Tip Of India, A Country Formerly Known As Ceylon, Which Is Steeped In Centuries Of Cultural Achievement And Tradition - And Forced Into The Late Twentieth Century By The Ravages Of Civil War And The Consequences Of A Country Divided Against Itself. Into This Maelstrom Steps A Young Woman, Anil Tissera, Born In Sri Lanka, Educated In The West, A Forensic… Read More

Aladdin, 2001. Soft cover. New. New Unread Copy Vintage For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos As Soon As Anne Shirley Arrives At The Snug White Farmhouse Called Green Gables, She Is Sure She Wants To Stay Forever . . . But Will The Cuthberts Send Her Back To To The Orphanage? Anne Knows She's Not What They Expected-A Skinny Girl With Fiery Red Hair And A Temper To Match. If Only She Can Convince Them To Let Her Stay, She'll Try Very Hard Not To Keep Rushing Headlong Into Scrapes And Blurting Out The First Thing That Comes To Her Mind. Anne Is Not Like Anyone Else, The Cuthberts Agree; She Is Special-A Girl With An Enormous Imagination. This Orphan Girl Dreams Of The Day When She Can Call Herself Anne Of Green Gables.

HarperTrophy, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. New - Unread - 1St Edition For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Alex Ford Wishes His Father Had Seen The Movie Brokeback Mountain. Because Then He Might Understand That It'S Possible To Be A Gay Cowboy. Trouble Is, Alex Doesn'T Even Want To Be A Cowboy; His Dream Is To Ditch Western-Style Riding And Take Up Dressage. But With His Mother Long Gone, His Father Ensconced In An Rv In The Driveway, His Messy Aunt Grace The Hair Stylist Installed In The Kitchen (Whose Cooking Tastes Like Her Hairdressing Smells), And His Kung Fu-Obsessed Younger Twin Sisters, Alex Knows That His Dream Is Highly Unlikely. So When He Does Get The Chance To Try The Meticulously Intricate Art Of Dressage Riding And Then Bumps Into The Supremely Self Absorbed Cleo At A Competition, It'S A Whole New World For Alex. Cleo'S Been Sent To A Very Posh, Very Horsey Boarding School Nearby Because Of An Unfortunate Incident With Her Handsome… Read More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Random House Canada, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 28-28-3. Fan Brothers, The. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Wear/Tear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ The #1 bestselling Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race. 1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to breaking point back on Earth. Houston flight controller Kazimieras Kaz Zemeckis must do all he can to keep the NASA crew together, while staying one step ahead of his Soviet rivals. But not everyone on board Apollo 18 is quite who they appear to be. Full of the fascinating technical detail that fans of The… Read More

Penguin, 1973. Paperback. As New. Like New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - From Mordecai Richler, One Of Our Greatest Satirists, Comes One Of Literature's Most Delightful Characters, Duddy Kravitz -- In A Novel That Belongs In The Pantheon Of Seminal Twentieth Century Books. Duddy -- The Third Generation Of A Jewish Immigrant Family In Montreal -- Is Combative, Amoral, Scheming, A Liar, And Totally Hilarious. From His Street Days Tormenting Teachers At The Jewish Academy To His Time Hustling Four Jobs At Once In A Grand Plan To "Be Somebody," Duddy Learns About Living -- And The Lesson Is An Outrageous Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Human Comedy. As Richler Turns His Blistering Commentary On Love, Money, And Politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Becomes A Lesson For Us All...In Laughter And In Life

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1995. 1st Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. The Bestselling, Award-Winning Canadian Novel About A Most Unusual Literary Getaway Heads South To Win New Friends For The Endearing Bachelor Brothers. Hector And Virgil, The Bachelor Brothers, Operate A Bed And Breakfast Establishment Where People Like Them, The "Gentle And Bookish And Ever So Slightly Confused" Can Feel At Home. An Antic Blend Of Homespun And Intellectual Humor, This Book Is A Place Readers Will Want To Return To Again And Again.

Scribner, 2016. Soft cover. New. New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - In The Late Seventeenth Century Two Penniless Young Frenchmen, René Sel And Charles Duquet, Arrive In New France. Bound To A Feudal Lord, A "Seigneur," For Three Years In Exchange For Land, They Become Wood-Cutters-Barkskins. René Suffers Extraordinary Hardship, Oppressed By The Forest He Is Charged With Clearing. He Is Forced To Marry A Mi'Kmaw Woman And Their Descendants Live Trapped Between Two Inimical Cultures. But Duquet, Crafty And Ruthless, Runs Away From The Seigneur, Becomes A Fur Trader, Then Sets Up A Timber Business. Proulx Tells The Stories Of The Descendants Of Sel And Duquet Over Three Hundred Years-Their Travels Across North America, To Europe, China, And New Zealand, Under Stunningly Brutal Conditions-The Revenge Of Rivals, Accidents, Pestilence, Indian Attacks, And Cultural Annihilation. Over And Over Again, They… Read More

Alfred A Knopf, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. New, May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Barney Panofsky Smokes Too Many Cigars, Drinks Too Much Whiskey, And Is Obsessed With Two Things: The Montreal Canadiens Hockey Team And His Ex-Wife Miriam. An Acquaintance From His Youthful Years In Paris, Terry Mciver, Is About To Publish His Autobiography. In Its Pages He Accuses Barney Of An Assortment Of Sins, Including Murder. It's Time, Barney Decides, To Present The World With His Own Version Of Events. Barney's Version Is His Memoir, A Rambling, Digressive Rant, Full Of Revisions And Factual Errors (Corrected In Footnotes Written By His Son) And Enough Insults For Everyone, Particularly Vegetarians And Quebec Separatists. But Barney Does Get Around To Telling His Life Story, A Desperately Funny But Sad Series Of Bungled Relationships. His First Wife, An Artist And Poet, Commits Suicide And Becomes--À La Sylvia… Read More

Lincolnwood, Illinois, Usa: Publications International Ltd, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. Pulley, Kelly R.; Dalby, Danny Brooks. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Beginner's Bible Treasury Of Stories

Anchor Canada, 2018. Trade Paperback. As New. As New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To The Edges. - For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. - From Giller Prize-Winning Author Michael Redhill Comes A Literary Thriller About A Woman Who Fears For Her Sanity--And Then Her Life--When She Learns That Her Doppelganger Has Appeared In A Local Park. Jean Mason Has A Doppelganger. She's Never Seen Her, But Others Swear They Have. Apparently, Her Identical Twin Hangs Out In Kensington Market, Where She Sometimes Buys Churros And Drags An Empty Shopping Cart Down The Streets, Like She's Looking For Something To Put In It. Jean's A Grown Woman With A Husband And Two Kids, As Well As A Thriving Bookstore In Downtown Toronto, And She Doesn't Rattle Easily--Not Like She Used To. But After Two Customers Insist They've Seen Her Double, Jean Decides To Investigate. She Begins At The Crossroads Of Kensington Market: A City Park Called Bellevue Square. Although She Sees No… Read More

Emblem Editions, 2008. Paperback. As New. Like New - With Minor Shelf Wear To Cover. For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. - A Burnt-Out Political Aide Quits Just Before An Election - But Is Forced To Run A Hopeless Campaign On The Way Out. He Makes A Deal With A Crusty Old Scot, Angus Mclintock - An Engineering Professor Who Will Do Anything, Anything, To Avoid Teaching English To Engineers - To Let His Name Stand In The Election. No Need To Campaign, Certain To Lose - Or Is He?

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Ashby-BP Publishing, 2013. Soft cover. As New. As New, A Barely Read Copy. - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ A young man with a dark secret must choose... Trapped by the wishes of his dead father and his brother's blackmail, Bret Killeen suppresses his musical talent for years-until he meets Nicole, a university cello player with big dreams. As Bret wrestles with unresolved grief and guilt over his father's death, Nicole stirs his passion for music until it can no longer be ignored. Her supportive father provides a striking contrast to Bret's own family, an enlightening that drives him to the breaking point. At the threshold of adulthood, Bret must resolve his past in order to seize his future. The truth his mother needs to know, the power his brother holds over him, and the man their father really was are the sources Bret must tap to earn his freedom.

Vintage Canada, 2007. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. As New. 23-15-4. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos The Birth House Is The Story Of Dora Rare, The First Daughter To Be Born In Five Generations Of The Rare Family. 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 And A Kitchen Filled With Herbs And Folk Remedies. During The Turbulent Years Of World War I, Dora Becomes The Midwife's Apprentice. Together, They Help The Women Of Scots Bay Through Infertility, Difficult Labors, Breech Births, Unwanted Pregnancies And Even Unfulfilling Sex Lives. When Gilbert Thomas, A Brash Medical Doctor, Comes To Scots Bay With Promises Of Fast, Painless Childbirth, Some Of The Women Begin To Question Miss Babineau's Methods - And After Miss Babineau's Death, Dora Is Left To Carry On Alone. In The Face Of Fierce Opposition, She Must Summon All Of Her Strength To… Read More