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Author:Glover, Douglas
,Mathews, Lawrence
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Author:Wilson, Gretchen
Summary:Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm.
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Author:Curtis, Herb
Summary:An invasion?
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Author:Sparkman, Richard
Summary:A recreational canoeman in his native Texas, Rick Sparkman thought he knew all about the sport when he moved to Nova Scotia in 1981.
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Author:Poitras, Jacques
Summary:In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalist’s account of how Bernard Lord rose to the top in provincial politics and why his pa
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Author:Kishkan, Theresa
Summary:A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage.
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Author:Gudgeon, Chris
Summary:Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon.
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Author:Kishkan, Theresa
Summary:In her vibrant first novel Sisters of Grass, Theresa Kishkan weaves a tapestry of the senses through the touchstones of a young woman's life.
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Author:Glover, Douglas
Summary:Douglas Glover’s acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition.
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Author:Burden,, George
,Grant, Dorothy
Summary:The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life:
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Author:Lee, Philip
Summary:Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper columns on Canadian politics and public policy.
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Author:Manchester, Peter
Summary:From the days when proto-humans lashed animal jawbones to sticks and whacked wildebeest-poop slapshots in Olduvai Arena to today’s super-high-tech computer-assisted extravaganzas, one by-product of
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Author:de Villiers, Marq
Summary:Shortlisted for the Donner Prize and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardDroughts, floods, and contamination of fresh water in the american Southwest, in the Great Lakes region, in Australia, in
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Author:Choyce, Lesley
Summary:Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way.
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Author:Baldwin, Shauna Singh
Summary:The new reader's guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin's literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and
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