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"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of

In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he ina

Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village.

The Order of Canada, the country's highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life.

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publicat

"Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society."--Container.

Third-generation Chinese-Canadian Arlene Chan shares the rich histories of Toronto’s Chinese-Canadian communities in this special four-book bundle.

Paddles Up!

The Chinese have become a vibrant part of Toronto’s multiculturalism, with no less than seven Chinatowns created since 1984.

The history of the Chinese community in Toronto is rich with stories drawn from over 150 years of life in Canada.

The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life.

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.

Miranda Fox desperately wants to find the daughter her family took from her when she was young.