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The Comedian
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renound for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautu...
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Redemption
In this sweeping saga, Yvonne Harris tells the poignant stories of Robert and Alice, two young people who join the 1846 wagon train to cross North America on their way to the West Coast. Seeking a ...
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Encountering Riel
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Kalyna
Swept up in a whirlwind courtship, Katja and Wasyl begin life anew in a Ukrainian settlement of Western Canada. The dusty Canadian prairies promise hope and independence, but when war breaks out be...
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Arriving: 1909-1919
Corinne Jeffery’s Canadian historical fiction trilogy, Understanding Ursula, vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. You’ll lose yours...
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Choosing: 1940-1989
Choosing, book three of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, concludes the heart-wrenching story of five generations of the controversial and secretive Warner family. Become reunited with...
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Thriving: 1920-1939
Thriving, book two of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, continues the story of the challenges of the intriguing and contentious Werners, a family of German Lutheran homesteaders on the...
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League of the Star
It is the dawn of the French revolution and masses of hungry peasants burn wealthy chateaus throughout France. After the death of his estranged family, eighteen year-old nobleman, Marcel de la Cro...
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Mary Green
Mary Green, obscure orphan and ward of the wealthy Hargreaves family, has always accepted her inferior position with grace, humility, and gratitude. When she discovers that her only friend is to le...
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Between Clay and Dust
In an old ruined city, emptied of most of its inhabitants, Ustad Ramzi, a famous wrestler past his prime, and Gohar Jan, a well-known courtesan whose kotha once attracted the wealthy and powerful, ...
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Two Blackbirds
The fires of the Second World War are beginning to burn down, but legendary Canadian aviatrix Sharon Lacey is not out of danger just yet. Complications enter the young ace's life as deep-seated rac...
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After Alice
"After retiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von Täler has returned to the small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of the big city. The family orchard has si...
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Rupert's Land
"At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritarian father, Cora Wagoner daydreams about what it w...
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The Paradise Engine
While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic. Almos...
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Blackbirds
"When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerou...
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Dustship Glory
In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Se...
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Roy & Me
Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar’s relationship with Roy Farran—soldier, politician,...
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Sky Walker
Tehawennihàhos and the Battle of Vinegar Hill
In this rollicking tale, a Mohawk hero rides through the turbulent and lawless days of 1845 Upper Canada, longing for the love of Scotchwoman and exploring the divide between Mohawk and Presbyteri...
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Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds
An Inuit Woman's Journey
The story of the indomitable spirit of a beautiful young woman emerging into adulthood in the remote Intuit village of Panniqtuuq on Baffin Island.
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Maurice Dufault
Maurice Dufault stopped to contemplate the small town spread out at his feet. Each time he came back, he liked to identify the changes that had taken place over the summer holidays…. So begins ano...
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