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In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod--a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl's growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into on...
Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
Follow the thrilling escapades as World War I ends and young Indy gets entangled in adventures with famous--and infamous--figures like Ernest Hemingway, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Armstrong and Al Capone during some of the most vibrant years of the 20th century.
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley reflects on a life of rigid pride. In a series of sharply etched vignettes, the tragedy of all Hagar has lost is revealed. The motherless daughter of the wealthiest man in the prairie town of Manawaka, she is schooled in contempt from early childho...
At 90, Hagar Shipley may be considered old, but she hasn't stopped fighting. As her son and daughter-in-law take her to a nursing home, Hagar resists and remembers a lifetime of boldness and courage.
Ten-year-old Sal must spend Christmas with her grandmother in small town Ontario. Lonesome and bored, she finds an old-fashioned coat in an old trunk that takes her back in time to an earlier Christmas.