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The Jalna Saga

By (author) Mazo de la Roche
Categories: Generational sagas
Series: Jalna

Beloved by generations, Mazo de la Roche’s irreplaceable Jalna saga is at last available in a single collected volume. For lovers of the series, this is truly the authoritative collection.

The Jalna series ...

The Roof Walkers

Christmas, 1864, in the last years of the civil war, a twenty-year-old Irish Canadian, Eoin O'Donoghue, is newly hired as the personal secretary to the prospective head of the embryonic Irish Republican ...

Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds

By (author) Yvonne Harris
Categories: Historical fiction

Based on the inspiring, true story of a precocious young Inuit girl who is abandoned and left to fend for herself in the unforgiving Arctic North. This coming-of-age tale celebrates the indomitable will ...

Dustship Glory

By (author) Andreas Schroeder
Foreword by Don Kerr
Categories: Classic fiction

In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen’s wild scheme to build an ocean-bound ship in the middle of a wheatfield in Saskatchewan. Set ...

Therefore Choose

On a summer visit to Germany, George, a young medical student at Cambridge, meets Anna von Kleist, whose intellectual force, beauty, and self-assurance smite him full in the heart. It is 1936. Hitler ...

By the Rivers of Brooklyn

By (author) Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
Categories: Historical fiction

In the 1920s, Jim, Bert and Rose Evans all move from Newfoundland to Brooklyn, New York, in search of work and a better life, leaving their sister Annie back home in St. John’s. By the Rivers of Brooklyn ...

The Badger Riot

By (author) J. A. Ricketts
Categories: Historical fiction

In 1959, the small town of Badger was the centre of a labour confrontation that forever changed the social and political landscape of Newfoundland. For two and a half months, loggers had been striking ...

The Tale of Don L'Orignal

By (author) Antonine Maillet
Translated by Barbara Godard
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Winner of the 1979 Governor General’s Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet’s virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L’Orignal, is now back in print. Maillet’s tale begins one day, not so very long ...

Pélagie

By (author) Antonine Maillet
Translated by Philip Stratford
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France’s most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of this novel, Pé-la-Charette. In her acceptance speech, ...