In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and...
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Author: Crewe, LesleySummary:
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Author: Grannan, Mary, Hume, Margaret AnneSummary:
For twenty-three years during the golden age of radio in Canada, stories for children by Mary Grannan, "Just Mary," were broadcast by CBC and beloved across the country. She retired from...
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Author: Desjardins, SergineSummary:
1684, en Nouvelle-France. Libertinage, meurtre, procès, emprisonnement, injustice... Marie Major, une jeune fille à l'esprit indépendant, jouit à Paris d'une vie simple, mais vibrante de culture,...
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Author: Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his...
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Author: Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon)Summary:
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Author: Meyer, CarolynSummary:
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
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Author: Massicotte, StephenSummary:
On the night before her wedding, Mary dreams of a thunderstorm, during which she unexpectedly meets Charlie sheltering in a barn beside his horse. With innocence and humour, the two discover a...
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Author: de la Roche, MazoSummary:
First published in 1949, in Mary Wakefield, the third book in the Jalna series, a young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip's motherless children. When Philip...
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Author: Kerr, MelanieSummary:
Mary Green, obscure orphan and ward of the wealthy Hargreaves family, has always accepted her inferior position with grace, humility, and gratitude. When she discovers that her only friend is to...
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Author: Hebert, Louis-PhilippeSummary:
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Author: Coady, LynnSummary:
Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Published on the occasion of...
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Author: George, MargaretSummary:
Draws on the Bible and secular historical research to present a fictional portrait of Mary of Magdala as she becomes part of Jesus' circle of disciples and comes into a realization of her faith....
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Author: Kulling, MonicaSummary:
Mary Anning, considered the world's greatest fossilist, discovered her first big find at the age of twelve. This novel is an imaginative re-creation of her childhood in early nineteenth-century...
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Author: FRASER, AntoniaSummary:
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arose mixed emotions. Was she, as Edmund Burke thought, a misused heroine? Or would...
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Author: Young, Ida LinehanSummary:
In the late nineteenth century, after disease and circumstance have left her alone in the world, Mary Rourke believes she is predestined to spinsterhood in her small community in Newfoundland....