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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.

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.

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

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

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Seal Books, 1996. Special Collectors Edition . Soft cover. New. New, An Unread Copy - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Special Collector's Edition; Seal Books Edition May 1996. New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide… Read More

Seal Books, 1996. Special Collectors Edition . Paperback. New. New, An Unread Copy - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Special Collector's Edition; Seal Books Edition May 1996. A continuation of the "Anne of Green Gables" series, in this work Anne Shirley left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faced a new dealing head-on with the proud Pringle family. But Anne found great allies in the two widows everyone called Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. Soon Anne would learn Summerside's strangest secrets . . . secrets that would make winning the support of the prickly Pringles only the first of her delicious triumphs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Seal Books, 1996. Special Collectors Edition . Paperback. New. New, An Unread Copy - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Special Collector's Edition; Seal Books Edition May 1996. At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : SEAL BOOKS, 1983. Paperback. New. New, An Unread Copy - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Vintage 1983 A continuation of the "Anne of Green Gables" series, in this work Anne Shirley left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faced a new dealing head-on with the proud Pringle family. But Anne found great allies in the two widows everyone called Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. Soon Anne would learn Summerside's strangest secrets . . . secrets that would make winning the support of the prickly Pringles only the first of her delicious triumphs.

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.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Seal Books, 1996. Special Collectors Edition . Paperback. Very Good. In Very Good Condition, A Barely Read Copy. No Notes or Names. Crease On Back Cover, Top Left. With Minor Wear/Tear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - Special Colletor's Edition; Seal Books Edition May 1996. When Marilla Cuthbert's Brother, Matthew, Returns Home To Green Gables With A Chatty Redheaded Orphan Girl, Marilla Exclaims, "But We Asked For A Boy. We Have No Use For A Girl." It's Not Long, Though, Before The Cuthberts Can't Imagine How They Could Ever Do Without Young Anne Of Green Gables--But Not For The Original Reasons They Sought An Orphan. Somewhere Between The Time Anne "Confesses" To Losing Marilla's Amethyst Pin (Which She Never Took) In Hopes Of Being Allowed To Go To A Picnic, And When Anne Accidentally Dyes Her Hated Carrot-Red Hair Green, Marilla Says To Matthew, "One Thing's… Read More

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