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  • The Raffle Baby

    by Ruth Talbot ...
    "Purchase a ticket for a chance to win a rosy-cheeked little one. Ladies particularly welcome."With precise, breathtaking prose and hints of magical realism, Ruth Talbot tells the tale of three orphans as they crisscross the country in the 1930s, riding the rails, chasing the harvests, and stealing when they must. Their destination is always the same: survival.Teeny, Sonny Boy and Vic have been ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Memoir

    by Mary Karr ...
    “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.comThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Small Beneath the Sky

    A Prairie Memoir

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    Small Beneath the Sky is a tender, unsparing portrait of a family. It is also a book about place. Growing up in a small prairie city, where the local heroes were hockey players and curlers, Lorna Crozier never once dreamed of becoming a writer. Nonetheless, the grace, wisdom, and wit of her poetry have won her international acclaim. In this marvellous volume of recollections, she charts the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liars' Club

    A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Mary Karr ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **#4 on The New York Times’ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet’s ear.” —Oprah.com**The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Stories

    An anthology of beloved classic children's storiesWhen a little boy chooses to play with the Velveteen Rabbit instead of his more expensive toys, the doll learns what it means to be truly Real. Young and old alike will enjoy this collection of time-honored tales, featuring the stuffed bunny and including other favorites such as:The Frog PrincePeter PanThe Good Little MousePrincess ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary's Christmas Goodbye

    An Amish Romance

    by Linda Byler ...
    Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach?Of course not, she decides, fully at home in eastern Pennsylvania, where she can go ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Lucky Turtle

    by Bill Roorbach ...
    In this “thrilling” love story (Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers and Five Tuesdays in Winter), a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious stranger.Get author Bill Roorbach's brand new novel, Beep, too!When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana after being involved in an armed robbery, she is thrust into a world of mountains and ... Read more

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  • How to Eat Like a Child

    And Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-up

    by Delia Ephron ...
    “This book is for rebellious adults only. . . . Inspires instant recognition of childhoods past. . . . A joy.”—PeopleUniversal and timeless, Delia Ephron's How to Eat Like a Child is a delightful revisiting of the joys—and tricky ploys—of childhood. Made into a children's television special and a musical theater revue performed across the country each year, How to Eat Like a Child offers advice ... Read more

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  • Green Eggs & Weezie

    You think you've got the world by the woo-hoo, don't you? Happily married? Oh yeah. Good kids? Uh huh. That's what Weezie Polk thought until one day the man who would never cheat on her (never, never, oh no, not him) was caught massaging bare boobies ... and they weren't hers!  One thing leads to another and, before you can say Dr. Seuss, Weezie is changing her favourite ladybug underwear in the ... Read more

    $3.87 USD

  • Every Little Scrap and Wonder

    A Small-Town Childhood

    by Carla Funk ...
    From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life.Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeker and the Sneaky Pony

    Illustrated by Maja Andersen ...
    Series Book 1 - Sneaky Pony Series
    Saddle up for a wild ride when a young girl finally gets the pony she's always dreamed of—and has some misadventures she never could have imagined.Meet Catherine Corey Keegan Dana (everyone calls her Keeker). What she wants most of all is a pony.Meet Plum. Plum is a Shetland pony (who's known to be a teeny bit sneaky). She rarely, if ever, thinks about little girls. She certainly doesn't want one ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miss Scout and the Lobsterman

    by Peggy Johnson ...
    Miss Scout just happens to be a cat and in her latest adventure she sets off to stop the lobster boat from waking every one up before day light. Just a short fun story with pictures, will surely make you grin! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus