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  • Dance the Rocks Ashore
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. Even so, the most recent of his five books of stories came out in 1988, and most are out of print.

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  • The Summer of Apartment X
    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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  • Canadian Artists Bundle Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, James Wilson Morrice
    Author:

    Braid, Kate

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    Larsen, Wayne

    Summary:

    Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 1–10 Emma Albani / Emily Carr / George Grant / Jacques Plante / John Diefenbaker / John Franklin / Marshall McLuhan / Phyllis Munday / Wilfrid Laurier / Nellie McClung
    Author:

    Konieczny, Vladimir

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    Dunton, Darcy

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    Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle

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    Rigelhof, T.F.

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    Slade, Arthur

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    Plante, Raymond

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    Braid, Kate

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    Fitzgerald, Judith

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    Wilson, John

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    Bridge, Kathryn

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    Stewart, Roderick

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    Macpherson, Margaret

    Summary:

    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

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  • Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and Many More
    Author:

    Fitzgerald, Judith

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    Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle

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    Braid, Kate

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    Rigelhof, T.F.

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    Plante, Raymond

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    Slade, Arthur

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    Wilson, John

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    Bridge, Kathryn

    ,

    Stewart, Roderick

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    Stewart, Sharon

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    Macpherson, Margaret

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    Goodall, Lian

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    Paulin, Marguerite

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    Legaré, Francine

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    Evans, Gary

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    Cowley, Deborah

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    Shardlow, Tom

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    Kirk, Heather

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    Cimon, Anne

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    Vanasse, André

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    Larsen, Wayne

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    Henighan, Tom

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    Maes, Nicholas

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    Ferguson, Julie H.

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    Knowles, Valerie

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    Lahey, D.T.

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    Butts, Edward

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    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

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    Sadlier, Rosemary

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    Argyle, Ray

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    Tidridge, Nathan

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    Martin, Ged

    Summary:

    This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world.

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  • Thin Places
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • Sea of Tranquility A Novel
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Pastoral fiction

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  • Shoulder the Sky
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out.

    Genre: Psychological fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • Smoke and Mirrors
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • Emily Carr
    Author:

    Braid, Kate

    Summary:

    As a child she was "contrary,"as a young woman she defied convention to choose art over marriage, and as a middle-aged woman she was considered a full-blown eccentric.

    Genre: Art and architecture, Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction

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  • Cold Clear Morning
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles.

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  • Driving Minnie's Piano
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

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  • Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic.

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  • Peggy's Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

    Summary:

    Here is the complete history of the famous cove and the unique village that hosts thousands of visitors each year.

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  • The Nova Scotia Book of Fathers
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

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    Swan, Julia

    Summary:

    “Alistair MacLeod was the most deeply satisfied person I ever met,” writes Alexander MacLeod of his father, “and every day I miss his quiet presence in my life, his unhurried walk, his slow breathi

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