"In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to...
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Author: Mierau, MauriceSummary:
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Author: Salmond, AnneSummary:
"In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning...
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Author: Mierau, MauriceSummary:
In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada...
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Author: Johnson, HaroldSummary:
Ben Robe is a retired political science professor who has returned to his reserve at Moccasin Lake, Saskatchewan, to live out his life in relative peace and solitude. But the complications of a...
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Author: Tobin, PaulSummary:
It's Friday the 13th again, and for sixth grade genius Nate Bannister, that means doing three more not-so-smart things to keep life interesting. But he has bigger problems than his own experiments...
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A collection of poems, stories, and essays written by girls twelve to eighteen years of age and revealing the secrets which enabled them to overcome the challenges they faced.
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Author: Struthers, BetsySummary:
No wonder the university administration is worried: a fatal hit and run in the parking lot; a woman jogger drowned in the river. Accidents? Perhaps. But the latest campus death is no accident –...
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Author: Struthers, BetsySummary:
Growing up, Rosie had never known any of her father's family. Why had she been chosen to inherit her grandfather's summer home, and its valuable northern waterfront land?A simple reunion with her...
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Author: Warland, BetsySummary:
Twelve years in the making, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing is a must-read for students of creative writing. This collection is comprised of two sets of twelve essays each. "...
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Author: Warland, BetsySummary:
"After moving to Vancouver's West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with a surprising array of wildlife, are quietly...
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Author: Scott, Gail, Gluck, Robert, Roy, Camille, Burger, MarySummary:
What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top...
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Author: BYARS, BetsySummary:
Three American children battle to save their eccentric grandfather from losing his house when he tries to prevent a highway from being built.
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Author: Byars, BetsySummary:
Two sisters look upon a beach vacation with their father, his woman friend, and her son, as two weeks in the wrong place with the wrong people.
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Author: Matlin, MarleeSummary:
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Author: Carter, BetsySummary:
On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling in upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight...