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THE FIRST CROW

by middleroadpublishers.ca, Garry Ferguson ...

Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet. Whether he's writing about the Renfrew County Shanties—one room log hovels with dirt floors, or about the characters like Bernie Bedore who "not only created the large body of ... Read more

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Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet. Whether he's writing about the Renfrew County Shanties—one room log hovels with dirt floors, or about the characters like Bernie Bedore who "not only created the large body of
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The Last Straw: A Play

by middleroadpublishers.ca, Ken Puddicombe ...

PREFACEThe central theme of this collection is spousal abuse employed in its different forms and executed by different malefactors.In Down Independence Boulevard and Why Men Leave, it's the husband who is the object of physical and psychological abuse. In The Last Straw, it is the wife who is subjected to psychological abuse. In A Lovers' Tryst, both the husband and wife are the guilty parties and ... Read more

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PREFACEThe central theme of this collection is spousal abuse employed in its different forms and executed by different malefactors.In Down Independence Boulevard and Why Men Leave, it's the husband who is the object of physical and psychological abuse. In The Last Straw, it is the wife who is subjected to psychological abuse. In A Lovers' Tryst, both the husband and wife are the guilty parties and
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To Every Thing There Is a Season

A Cape Breton Christmas Story

by Alistair MacLeod ...

The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who ... Read more

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The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who
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As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories

by Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart ...

Series series New Canadian Library
The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the ... Read more

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The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the
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Disappearances

A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher ...

New England Book Award Winner: A father and son smuggle liquor across the border in Depression-era Vermont in this "remarkable and wonderful" novel ( The Christian Science Monitor).This endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey ... Read more

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New England Book Award Winner: A father and son smuggle liquor across the border in Depression-era Vermont in this "remarkable and wonderful" novel ( The Christian Science Monitor).This endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey
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A Really Good Brown Girl

by Marilyn Dumont ...

On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features a new Introduction by Lee Maracle, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1996, A Really Good Brown Girl is a ... Read more

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On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features a new Introduction by Lee Maracle, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1996, A Really Good Brown Girl is a
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Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

by Sid Marty ...

A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fictionWinner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book FestivalLeaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early ... Read more

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A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fictionWinner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book FestivalLeaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early
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The View from Castle Rock

by Alice Munro ...

Series series Vintage International
A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro“Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.”—The Washington Post Book WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The ... ... Read more

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A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro“Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.”—The Washington Post Book WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The ...
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Finding Larkspur

A Return to Village Life

by Dan Needles ...

Bestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today’s Canadian small townModern literature has not been kind to village life. For almost two centuries, small towns have been portrayed as backward, insular places needing to be escaped. But anthropologists tell us that the ... Read more

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Bestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today’s Canadian small townModern literature has not been kind to village life. For almost two centuries, small towns have been portrayed as backward, insular places needing to be escaped. But anthropologists tell us that the
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A Really Good Brown Girl

by Marilyn Dumont ...

Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and ... Read more

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Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and
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The People in Yonder

Blackwell Chronicles, #2

by Troy D. Smith ...

Series Book 2 - Blackwell Chronicles
Two mountain men, Harry and Joe, stand before a strange phenomenon they found on the grassy plains–an aperture, a jagged hole in the sky. Is it an opening into another, evil dimension? The strange opening swirls with wild colors, and there are shadowy, demonic figures inside. One man is frightened, but one is mesmerized. And what does this have to do with the Battle of the Little Big Horn? ... Read more

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Two mountain men, Harry and Joe, stand before a strange phenomenon they found on the grassy plains–an aperture, a jagged hole in the sky. Is it an opening into another, evil dimension? The strange opening swirls with wild colors, and there are shadowy, demonic figures inside. One man is frightened, but one is mesmerized. And what does this have to do with the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
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Crow Gulch

by Douglas Walbourne-Gough ...

Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardFinalist, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ AwardFrom the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch — the story of my family and, subsequently, my own story — go untold. This book is my attempt to resurrect dialogue and story, to honour who and where I come from, to remind Corner Brook of ... Read more

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Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardFinalist, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ AwardFrom the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch — the story of my family and, subsequently, my own story — go untold. This book is my attempt to resurrect dialogue and story, to honour who and where I come from, to remind Corner Brook of
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